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| Original Title: | Storm Breaking |
| ISBN: | 0886777550 (ISBN13: 9780886777555) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Valdemar: Mage Storms #3, Valdemar (Chronological) #36, Valdemar (Publication order) #18 , more |
| Characters: | Darkwind, Karal, Firesong, An'desha, Tremane, Natoli, Master Levi, Sejanes, Princess Elspeth of Valdemar |
Mercedes Lackey
Paperback | Pages: 463 pages Rating: 4.06 | 11636 Users | 117 Reviews
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As Storm Breaking opens, the western allies, led by Karal, Karsite Sunpriest and delegate to the Valdemaran Court, and the Adepts Firesong and An'desha, have traveled deep into the Dorisha Plains to locate the ancient ruins of the Tower of Urtho, Mage of Silence, creator of the gryphons. Legend has it that below the Tower, deeply buried beneath the plains, is Urtho's Vault, hidden stronghold of some of the most powerful magical weapons ever devised - weapons that Urtho himself felt were too dangerous to use. With the help of the Shin'a'in plainsmen, they have successfully excavated this ancient arsenal, and risked their lives triggering one of these antique but potent tools of death to unleash a monstrous burst of mage-energy. With this explosion of magical power, Karal, Firesong, and their companions have temporarily counteracted the ever-increasing waves of the mage storms. But they know that this desperate action will not save them - they have bought themselves precious time, but are still far from a permanent solution. They know now that the mage storms are an "echo" through time of the prehistoric Cataclysm which destroyed Urtho's Tower, created the vast and barren Dorisha Plains, and permanently warped their world more than two thousand years ago. And they also know that if they don't find a way to banish these magical vibrations they will culminate in another Cataclysm - this time destroying their world for good. But the Vault is not the only thing buried for centuries below the Dorisha Plains, and camped in the ruins of what once was the workplace of the most ingenious mage their world has ever known, the desperate allies soon come to realize that their solution may lie beneath the dust at their feet. The saving of their world just might be accomplished by the work of a man who has been dead for millennia!
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| Title | : | Storm Breaking (Valdemar: Mage Storms #3) |
| Author | : | Mercedes Lackey |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 463 pages |
| Published | : | October 1st 1997 by Daw Books (first published January 1st 1996) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy |
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Ratings: 4.06 From 11636 Users | 117 ReviewsWeigh Up Epithetical Books Storm Breaking (Valdemar: Mage Storms #3)
I read this about 5 years ago and it appears I liked it less this time. I felt it dragged for most of the book up until around page 320 or so. And there was a lot of magic double talk that was confusing. I wish Lackey had had a cast of characters and who they were as well as a dictionary so I could keep the different factions, tribes, whatever, straight. The book was confusing. Also, I didn't like the end much. Yes, I cried. And was it just me? Did I miss something or did Baron Melles get awayaka "Lackey repeats the exact same plot three times & still gets people to buy the book."Ok, so there's this Very Bad Magic Storm coming & everyone has to figure out what magic doubletalk to use to stop it.Yeah. That's exactly the plot of this book & the other two books in this series. Mage-storm comes in, causes lots of problems, characters figure out how to stop it. I really hate SF/F books/shows/movies where the entire plot is the characters having to solve a fantasy problem with
This is my least favorite of the Mage Storms books, by far. Lackey had a lot on her plate wrapping up this series as it ends the core Valdemar stories that started this journey. Every question we had leading up to now is being answered. Unfortunately, Lackey tried to fit too much into this single book. There are too many concurrent plots and characters for pacing to work well. There are too many things that needed to be wrapped up, and a few that we didn't need to have wrapped up, which Lackey
While I reread these every few years, I think my rating went down this time. There was to much happening in to many places and it felt like most were handled too briefly. The ending was far too abrupt. The best parts of this book were with the Empire and Hardorn. Tremaine was interesting but, as usual, I find Elspeth very annoying. The book was much less satisfying than most of the books are. Although, getting rid of some of the characters that were too powerful and could likely solve everyone's
I thought we were back in Valdemar, but the envoys in the alliance travel to the tower of one of historys best mages, a guy named Urtho who faced off and defeated a blood mage named Maar by setting off a device that destroyed all magic spells. In the process, Urthos tower was destroyed and Maars hideout was decimated like a crater hit it. In contemporary Valdemar, that crater is now a lake around which a village has popped up, so thats nice.Karal and the rest of the cast are at Urthos tower to
I generally LOVE Mercedes Lackey books. And it pains me to rate this so low, but I just couldn't finish it this time. I have read the full book before, but this time I just have no desire to keep going... for me I kind of feel everything was wrapped up enough by the end of the second book in the trilogy and I just don't care enough to finish it.
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