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 enlarge | Author: Mercedes Lackey
Publisher: DAW
Category: Book
List Price: $7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  49 reviews
Sales Rank: 71769
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 464
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0886775167
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
UPC: 071125006000
EAN: 9780886775162
ASIN: 0886775167
Publication Date: July 7, 1992
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Condition: bin137
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 Winds of Fate September 10, 2005
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I absolutely love the entire "Valdemar" series, but this particular trilogy is one of my most favorite.
it is true March 3, 2005
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
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
 A bit distracting August 31, 2004
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I am a huge Lackey fan and have read almost everything she's written. I know she had just published a romance novel (The Fairy Godmother via Harlequinn Publishing Co, I believe), I guess this was one of the pre-cursors that made her want to try the Romance genre. As a huge fan of epic style romances, I thought I'd give this one a try, but at the moment, I find myself a bit distracted. The main character is really getting on my nerves with how self-involved she is. Supposedly, the Companions are the epitome of wisdom and kindness and all other goodly virtues (except perhaps, modesty and inhibition) but Elsbeth is rude to her Companion, without an obvious reason why. Skif, the great character from _Take a Thief_, goes from being possibly dangerous in the eyes of a friendly mage, to a jealous idiot in the eyes of Elsbeth because he disapproves and supposedly is in love with her, but it is only described in her point of view and could, if logically thought out, could be following her because he is dispatching his duty--being her bodyguard. Then throughout the questionably interesting storyline, every other chapter is devoted to Darkwind's story, which, hey, is great because I love the Tayledras characters. It's very obvious that Darkwind is the answer and romantic/magic ideal that Elsbeth is searching for, but the way in which the story is told somewhat fractures the effect, as she waits a while to get them together. That's bad in the sense that you can't tell why Darkwind's story is relevant and becomes distracting, almost something you rush through to get to the point of Elsbeth's story. Unfortunately, his story happens to be a bit more exciting and interesting, relevant and makes more sense. This is a okay to good read for a first-time Lackey reader perhaps, but a little blah for a reader like me.
 Why did Mercedes do this to me? August 14, 2004
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I LOVE Mercedes Lackey's previous books because they were filled with characters I loved. This book reminded me severely of Rowling's fifth book, I found myself not caring much for the characters I'd originally loved and only read it because of the author.
I didn't like Darkwind with his romantic interests, which were completely sex-oriented (and EXTREMELY descriptive!), same with Skif's. And Elspeth was so BORING!
I have the second book but find I don't really want to read it. All in all, I wished I hadn't read it so my opinion of Lackey's writing wasn't now so changed for the worse.
pleasant, but kind of cliche'd April 30, 2004
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I mostly enjoyed reading this book, but I found it pretty much a cliche. The young, feisty princess is threatened by an evil king and goes out on a quest to find magic. She fails to follow the advice of those older and wiser and acts rather stupidly rebellious. Fortunately, she didn't suffer quite the expected downfall and retribution for her behavior, which was sort of a relief. I don't think I would have enjoyed reading about her being tortured by the bad guy; and, fortunately, the tortures that others have suffered at his hand are only summarized briefly. This book is very, very sexual. If they put ratings on books, I think I would give it an NC-17. S&M stuff and incest appear fairly often -- pretty disgusting, even though it's only the bad guy who perpetrates this junk. Unfortunately, they don't put ratings on books, and my 13 year old read it. Fortunately, the stuff is expressed sufficiently metaphorically that most of it went over his head -- at least I hope so. The love scene between Darkwind & Dawnfire, though more traditional, was VERY titillating. On the upside of this, though, is that the bad guy's evil sexuality is pretty creative. I don't think that I've seen anything quite like it in a book. I just wish there were some warning, so I could keep it out of the hands of my kid. The suspense is pretty good, but there are some places that drag a bit. The second book is better, though still kinky.
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