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Summary: Mercedes Lackey's `Valdemar` book series continued greatness
Review: Mercedes Lackey's `Valdemar` book series continues to meet and exceed my expectations. If you like medieval settings or seemingly ordinary characters having extraordinary abilities this is a continuing series that I would rate as must read
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Summary: Bad series
Review: Not the best of books. This book is kind of disapointing because it feels like one big foreword. It has a very slow beginning and middle. This book recycles characters that were first introduced in the Arrows series. The character development is weaker in this series and this book is very drawn out which makes for a boring read. If you just want to read this book because you liked the series based around Talia then don't. Trust me, by the time it's over you'll wish you had just left off after the first series.
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Summary: Pretty Darn Good
Review: Okay, so it wasn't as good as "Arrows of the Queen," but I still found it gripping. With the Hawk Brothers, the Heralds and the Gryphons, who can lose. This series is probably my third favorite, after Heralds of Valdemar and then the Mage Wars (with Skandranon et al).
Elspeth goes on an adventure all her own, and Lackey introduces several new characters that are quick to become addicting, including Darkwind and the two Gryphons. The climax is wonderful and the villian is too evil for words. I love books like this, where the evil is evil and the good is good. YOu just can't pull yourself away from this story.
Five stars and a pat on the back to Mercedes Lackey for another well-spun yarn.
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Summary: it is true
Review: please exscuse the spelling
it is true that these books are perdictable as all of her valdemar books are but it is plesent perdictablity no serprises yes but no let downs ether
great book for all who like an ezzy but charming story
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Summary: Misty's Best
Review: The Mage Winds trilogy is perfection. I have never reread anything as many times as I have read Elspeth's story - and this comes from someone who knows nearly every book she owns by heart, and who's books are so well loved and frequently read that they fall apart. All three are covered thickly with packing tape to keep them in some semblance of being in one piece. If you have any love of magic, read them. If you have any love of adventure, read them. If you have any degree of love of romance, humor, action, or intrigue, read them. Misty was able to rise to the difficult task of meeting the incredible story of Talia, and she achieved what could have been impossible - she rose above. I am a HUGE fan of all of Misty's Valdemar books - read them all! These three, however, are the ones I started with and the ones that got me hooked.
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Summary: Ordinary and Very Average
Review: 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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Summary: Ordinary and Very Average
Review: 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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Summary: Not one of her best, but good none-the-less
Review: The next book, Winds of Change, really starts to get things going, but this first book is vital before reading the next. I tried reading Winds of Change first, but it just isn't the same. It's a pretty good book, espeically when the personalities of Elspeth and Darkwind clash!
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Summary: Another good book
Review: This book is about the heir to the throne of Valdemier, Elspeth, and a Hawkbrother, Darkwind.
Elspeth wanted to go find mages for Valdemier, which was being attacked by a neighboring kingdom (though he hadn't sent any more major attacks since `By the sword'). So, she goes to find mages, and to get trained herself (they find she has a major mage gift), only with her friend Skif and their Companions.
Darkwind is a scout for the Hawkbrothers, who used to be a mage. When they do meet, (after a while) they, Nyara (Falconsbanes daughter who hates him), and two grown griffons and their litter of three, not to mention the magic sword Need that went with Elspeth) get attacked by an evil (aren't all blood mages?) blood mage, Falconsbane. And they get whole new set of probolems...
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Summary: Another good book
Review: This book is about the heir to the throne of Valdemier, Elspeth, and a Hawkbrother, Darkwind.
Elspeth wanted to go find mages for Valdemier, which was being attacked by a neighboring kingdom (though he hadn't sent any more major attacks since 'By the sword'). So, she goes to find mages, and to get trained herself (they find she has a major mage gift), only with her friend Skif and their Companions.
Darkwind is a scout for the Hawkbrothers, who used to be a mage. When they do meet, (after a while) they, Nyara (Falconsbanes daughter who hates him), and two grown griffons and their litter of three, not to mention the magic sword Need that went with Elspeth) get attacked by an evil (aren't all blood mages?) blood mage, Falconsbane. And they get whole new set of probolems...
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