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Summary: Read ME PLEASE!
Review: Owlflight is an exceptional piece of fantasy literature. Mercedes Lackey sends you on a captivating adventure through the trials and tribulations of a youngmans life. With her flawless entertwining of magic and mystery she captivetes you from cover to cover. The foreshadowing keeps you guessing wile the flashbacks give you insights as to why Darian, the hero, does the things he does. The detail of all the events keeps you in the moment up to the end. During the climax you can feel the wind and taste the air. Her detail adn Larry Dixons illustratons give you a mental image so vivid you can see every action in your head. This along with the other books in the Owl saga are sure to be ranked up there with J.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and R.A. Salvator's Dark Elf Trilogy.
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Summary: OWLFLIGHT Doesn't Soar
Review: I haven't read Mercedes Lackey for a few years, but this one looked interesting. OWLFLIGHT is an adequate story, but is still too heavy on the exposition, drumming in the same outlook time and again. I wonder if she (they, she and Larry Dixon, co author) doesn't have another story to tell other than the misunderstood-kid-finding-his-magical-niche.
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Summary: i really liked this book
Review: I enjoyed this book a great deal. It is not the kind of book taht requires a great deal of serious thought, if you are looking for that, go for Patricia McKillip. This book is an enjoyable read and shows how events mold people into completely differnt personalities, espeacily when read in conjunction with the other two books in this series.
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Summary: Interesting personal story that evolves into a new life
Review: I like this book.The story of what happens to Darian makes you feel for him and travel on his path to maturity together with him. You can easily relate to his feelings.When his previous life is cruelly and suddenly destroyed,he goes with the Hawkbrothers and bravely helps them to help his village.Then he chooses to stay with them and learn to use his potential. Interesting and exciting,this book kept me up until I finished it,and I reread it many times since.Good reading!Enjoy!
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Summary: Very Good Book
Review: I liked this book alot. It's characters are well formed. It has a great storyline and I couldn't put it down the first time I read it. Or the second... or the third..
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Summary: How did this get published?
Review: Okay, theres really not much to say about this book other then well...it was just bad. The characters were one dimentional and annoying and the plot was simple and boring. Somehow I got through it, thinking it had to get better. I was wrong, the second one was even worse and I finally had to just stop not even half way through. I hear that not all of ML's books are this bad, and I'm willing to forgive her this one transgression and accept that as true. Either way, I won't be reading anything else by her.
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Summary: Terrible
Review: Misty Lackey's Heralds of Valdemar and Last Herald Mage were fantastic, they opened me up to the world of fantasy, they erased a lot of the prejudices I had against certain types of people. Velgarth (which is the world this takes place in) went downhill from there. I hated this book, it seemed very juvenile and childish to me, and I myself am only twelve years old! I didn't at all identify with the characters, I didn't laugh or cry, in fact, I only just finished this series last week and already I've forgotten the name of his insecure Healer mate! I truly wish Mercedes Lackey's Brightly Burning, another Valdemar novel will be better than this, because she can do much much better than this! I understand that she wrote this book for young adults, but I often like those books, and besides, I *am* a young adult! I also, for some strange reason, did not like the way she wrote about the "famous" people- such as Elspeth and Darkwind and Firesong. I don't know why, she had every reason to write them in as heroes, but still. Ugh. If you really must read them, get it from the library and enjoy your hours of misery as you quickly scan through this redundant and somewhat shallow book.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Though I am a big fan of the series, I'm starting to find Lackey's books extremely disappointing and unsatisfying. She's writing stock plots with stock characters. I can describe this book in a couple of sentences. 'Depressed teen lives in a constrictive world. The situation suddenly changes, the teen finds himself in a world he likes, saves the day, and everyone is happy.' Stop writing about depressed teens please, we've heard enough about them.
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Summary: What happened to the Misty I knew?
Review: I used to be an avid fan of Mercedes Lackey, but her latest books have been nothing but 400 pages of schlock. Gone are the days of the 200 page book with a coherent storyline and likable characters (like the Heralds of Valdemar trilogy). Instead we are subjected to endless pages of pointless detail and whiny adolescents.She started out wonderfully. The Heralds of Valdemar trilogy was stellar, Magic's Price of the Last Herald-Mage trilogy was genius. The Mage Winds was still good, although she started to get a little long-winded. And now she's fallen into a rut. All the main characters are whiny and ungrateful, all the Tayledras are wise and all-knowing, all the bad guys are evil without real purpose. She spends entire chapters on pointless detail (can we say the chapter about digging sewage systems in Storm Rising?). Owlflight is just the culmination of all this. It's yet another boring Valdemar book. Misty either needs to start *writing* again or put Valdemar to sleep for good. (it'd probably help if Larry Dixon didn't help her write...it seems like her writing has gone downhill ever since he teamed up with her...)
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Summary: Disagreeing with the other reviews
Review: I'm 34 years old, and have read all but one of her books in the Valdermar series. I've enjoyed them all very much. Yes she has a set theme that she uses in all her books, but the charcters in each of her books have their own personality and she makes each and everyone of them come to life. In this book Owlflight, and the sequal Owlsight Darnin is brought to life in such away that when he thinks his parents have died you have no promblem feeling his grief.
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