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Bezig met laden... The Duke's Ballad (2005)door Andre Norton, Lyn McConchie
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Some pagers felt like fillers. A pity. Otherwise, the story was agreeable to read and ties the lose ends from Ciara's Song. ( ) I feel bad about giving this book one star, but I've decided not to finish it. That very rarely happens. But... it's been over a week, I'm over half-way through, and I keep picking up other books instead. I don't find myself even minutely caring what happens to any of the characters. I can barely picture who the characters are; they're so bland and generic. What happened? I used to love the Witch World series! I loved Andre Norton in general. In part, it's that 25 years have passed. In a larger part, I believe, it's that this book isn't by Andre Norton at all. Slightly funny: The day I started reading this book, the guy was looking over my shoulder. It might have been the first page: "Silly child. You won't be able to move until I release you from my spell... The captive gasped defiantly, and Kirion snickered... At some stage in the proceedings, the girl lost consciousness." He said, "Wow, that is SO badly written. Who is that by?" I said, "some lady from New Zealand." He said, "Are there sheep?" I said, "No, this is a fantasy book." The sheep showed up, I believe, on page 54. It was an off-screen appearance, but still.... Anyway, there's a girl, she's secretly a witch, and she must endeavour to stop her evil brother, with the help of her nice brother. I don't know if she succeeds or not, but it seems likely that she will. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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The Duke's Ballad is the tale of Aisling, a young witch from a family gifted with a magical power that she must protect from her brother, Kirion, who wields magic unlike the rest of the family's. He gains power only by a terrible means: by killing others who wield magic. Years ago, Aisling fled her native Kars when Kirion, working for the Duke of Kars, tried to kill her. Since Aisling's departure, Kirion has tightened his insidious hold on Duke Shastro. The malevolent sorcerer's dark influence works through Shastro to cast a deadly pall over all of Kars. A fatal chain of events is triggered when Kirion pitches the people of Kars into a war with a neighboring clan. Aisling recruits her younger brother Keelan and returns in disguise, determined to undermine Kirion's power and unseat his evil pawn from the throne. Accompanied also by a catlike telepathic beast, Aisling becomes part of Shastro's court. But even as she begins to learn the ways of court power, a brutally cold winter besieges the land, testing the endurance of the people of Kars, who have little cheer in that darkest season. As Kars and its people contend with Kirion's depredations, the warring clan's raids, and the devastating winter, Aisling and Keelan must somehow, through guile, persistence and ingenuity, find a way to avoid the attention of their dangerous older brother, and save the people from his murderous sorcery. Only if they can survive Kirion's terrible power can they deliver the dukedom into the peace and prosperity it once knew. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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