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Title: Winds of Fate (The Mage Winds, Book 1) by Mercedes Lackey ISBN: 0-88677-516-7 Publisher: DAW Books Pub. Date: April, 1997 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (40 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Her best trilogy to date
Comment: I can't even be sure how many times I have re-read this trilogy. The development of the characters is amazing. The action is thrilling but not overdone. Character reactions are believable and sincere. This first book in the trilogy had me hooked and waiting impatiently for the second and third books to be released.
A certain treat for any fan of Valdemar!
Rating: 1
Summary: This is the worst book Misty has written!
Comment: I am an avid fan of the Valdemar series--I even re-read the entire series when a new book comes out--except for this book! The opening sequence is wonderful, and so are the bits with Kero. Then it takes entirely different directions. The Skif/Nyara thing, and then Need awakening just when Elspeth discovers she has Mage/Adept potential? Oh, please. Didn't it take decades for Kethry in the Vows and Honors series to attain Adepthood? How can Elspeth do it a couple of years--totally skiping the in-between ranks? It's not like her channels were blasted open like her ancestor Vanyel's were.
I've taken to reading the summary of this book that can be found in the Valdemar Companion. I would suggest the same for you. Read the book once, if you must, but borrow it from a library or a friend. You won't want it taking up precious bookshelf space.
Rating: 2
Summary: Ordinary and Very Average
Comment: The Mage Winds trilogy is the sequel to her Heralds of Valdemar series. It follows the next generation in the bodies of Princess Elspeth and Skif. Magic is returning to Valdemar and Elspeth is one of the few remaining Heralds that has the ability to use it, if she can learn how before being consumed by the dark forces. To do so she defies even her own Companion as seeks a teacher in the part mythical Hawkbrothers.
For those who love the worlds of Valdemar this series will have everything you want; magic, the Companions, romance, evil wizards and of course a happy ending.
Now for those of you who, like me, enjoy a good story here are the problems. This three volum set should have been condensed into one single book. Far too much just plain fluff to tell the truth, and not particularly interesting fluff at that. I found myself skimming and flipping pages just trying to find and interesting part of the story. Another problem is predictability. I felt I could guess the major plots and twists for the entire trilogy within the first hundred pages, turns out I was correct. You know who is going to end up with whom, who's going to die and how everything is going to turn out. Although I will say even I wasn't expecting how anticlimactic the end would be for the arch villain so I guess I lose my Seer's union card over that.
Too little story for three volumes, too predictable, very little new as far as plots. Do I recommend them, not really, but then there are a lot worst out there. I gave it a two mainly due to the fluff factor it's average enough to be up near the threes.
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Title: Storm Warning (The Mage Storms, Book 1) by Mercedes Lackey ISBN: 0886776619 Publisher: DAW Books Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Storm Rising by Mercedes Lackey ISBN: 0886777127 Publisher: DAW Books Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Storm Breaking (The Mage Storms, Book 3) by Mercedes Lackey ISBN: 0886777550 Publisher: DAW Books Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Arrow's Fall (The Heralds of Valdemar, Book 3) by Mercedes Lackey ISBN: 0886774004 Publisher: DAW Books Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Magic's Price (The Last Herald-Mage Series, Book 3) by Mercedes Lackey ISBN: 0886774268 Publisher: DAW Books Pub. Date: January, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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