- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Atlantic Books; First Edition edition (Sep 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0886777542
- ISBN-13: 978-0886777548
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 15 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,417,199 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Orphaned when his trapper parents failed to come back from the forest one day, young Darian is resentful when apprenticed to the damaged magician Justyn. He sees little point in the few tricks he manages to learn, and what has magic done for Justyn save leave him under-employed, sick and despised in a remote village? Then half-human invaders take the town and Justyn dies heroically helping people escape while Darian looks on in horror. Lost in the forest, Darian is rescued and recruited by the mysterious corps of Hawkbrothers... This is both a decent account of a difficult and disturbed boy coming to terms with his past and his future and a glance at new aspects of the world of the Heralds of Valdemar Mercedes Lackey has created in her other fantasy novels. Too often epic fantasy neglects the consequences of magical warfare for the peasants on the ground--the villagers' bad treatment of Darian and Justyn is a result of the necessary shattering of magic in earlier books, and Justyn is a brain-damaged veteran of those wars:
"But, like a lover scorned, his magic has left him as well. Much of what he had learned, the blow to the head had driven from his memory; he had trouble seeing mage-energies with any reliability, and the mind-magic he had was so seriously weakened he could no longer lift anything larger than a needle for more than a few moments".This is a chastening and perceptive book about growing up and coming to realise that the people around you have reasons for being wrong. --Roz Kaveney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The latest in the internationally bestselling Valdemar sequence of brilliantly imagined fantasies. Darian is a young boy living as apprentice to the wizard Justyn in Errold Green, a small Valdemaran village. He is unwilling to hone his skill in magic as he believes it is quicker and a damned sight more efficient to achieve your ends by purely physical methods. Darien's parents disappeared on a hunting tripp into the forest, the villagers believe they have fallen prey to the monsters created in the Mage storms, that they themselves may have been changed. But Darien believes differently. When Errold Green is suddenly and devastatingly attacked by a force of men accompanied by monstrous creatures of magic, Justyn makes a dramatic last stand, destroying the village in a cataclysmic spell that Damien witnesses. Escaping into the forest, Darien is chased down by 3 of enemy only to be saved at point of capture by the mysterious Hawkbrothers. It is the beginning of a new life born out of the ashes of the old, where he will for the 1st time realise the worth of the magical talent he has always wanted to rid of.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A great book to read to forget all your troubles,
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This review is from: Owlflight (Paperback)
Drawing on ideas from past Valdemaar stories, this book throws you into the life of a young orphaned boy who's village is attacked by barbarians. You are introduced to a large variety of new characters and can't help but feel for them throughout the story. Mercedes Lackey manages to build a wonderful backdrop in your mind, with images so vivid you could nearly be there.I read the book in 2 days...couldn't put it down. This book is the first of another one of Mercedes Lackey's sets, and is followed by Owlsight and Owlknight which take you further into the story and are also defintately worth reading
3.0 out of 5 stars
Item lost in transit,
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This review is from: Owlflight (Darian's Tale) (Mass Market Paperback)
Unfortunately, my book failed to arrive, but when I queried this I received a prompt apology and my account was recredited immediately.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Fun and Fluffy Rainy Day Book,
By bluecougar25 "hobbitblue" (Liverpool, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Owlflight (Paperback)
Lovely fluffy wish-fulfilment fantasy ideal for a rainy afternoon, I wish I'd been able to read this when I was 15 as its sweet and cute now but would have enchanted me then - orphan Darian finds there's more to the world than his isolated village and tired old mage when an invading army sends him fleeing into the hands of the Hawkbrothers and their bondbirds, and a gryphon. The sequels expand nicely on the theme as Darian grows into his powers, but this is my favourite of the three. There's enough backstory and extra info that you don't need to know anything about the Valdemar world to read this, just jump right in.
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