- Paperback: 388 pages
- Publisher: Gollancz; New edition edition (13 July 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1857988612
- ISBN-13: 978-1857988611
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11.2 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 201,083 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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Darian left his home at the edge of the Pelagiris Forest when barbarians attacked Errold's Grove and killed Wizard Justyn. Now, under the watchful eye of the Hawkbrothers, Darian is honing his craft and gaining new mage skills, not the least of which is an affinity for mind-speaking with his closest companion, the Hawk Owl Kuari. Keisha, a nartural-born healer, is proving indispensible in Errold's Grove, but her destiny seems ordinary when compared with her sister Shandi, who is Chosen to be a Herald. But there is much more in store for Darian and Keisha: they have a task, the outcome of which will affect all of Valdemar - and their guide is to be the legendary hero of the Mage-Storms, Firesong himself.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Compulsive and entertaining, I wanted it to go on forever,
By Karen O'Neill (Workington, Cumbria United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Owlsight (Paperback)
This book lets us grow up with Darien we see him now as a teenager. We also know where his abilities lie and we also meet a great new character in keisha and her sister the herald trainee. I throughly enjoyed this book and cannot wait for the next installment in the series
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant reading,
This review is from: Owlsight (Paperback)
this was miles better than Owlflight. the story was paced better and everything linked. The detail with which ML described Keisha's day to day life was so in depth you could imagine yourself beside her as tended sick people and animals, feel her frustration with her family and her awe when she saw the Hawkbrothers. Darien has also grown up, he is now much more mature, and confident about himself. There is also the reappearance of Firesong and Silverfox, so we get to find out how Firesing has coped since his accident. We also breifly reaqquaint ourselves breifly with Kerowyn and Eldan as well as the companions. It was rivrting and i have read the book from cover to cover 3 times and i still want to read it again.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Owlsight (Darian's Tale) (Mass Market Paperback)
This is the second book in a new trilogy, Owlflight being the first,this is Valdemar from a different angle, the Hawkbrothers one. Mercedes Lackey draws you in from the first page and leaves you hoping that the next book is published (there's nothing worse than having to wait a year or more for the next instalment). I love the Valdemar books and found the Hawkbrothers slightly mysterious in the previous books, this one expands on the relationships with their 'bondbirds', and about how they live, work and protect the forests they live in great, great, great more please. Darian (our hero) is endearing a 'typical boy' and is a bit irritating at first, but stay with him, he's worth it. Full of the usual adventure and magic this trilogy will not disappoint (the heralds are here too). Darians journey into adulthood and magehood was great, but I found the ending a little rushed.My only question is when will there be some more Valdemar books.
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