Lord of the Isles (#1)
With Lord of the Isles, David Drake returns to fantasy with a towering and complex epic of heroic adventure in an extraordinary and colorful world where the elemental forces that empower magic are rising to a thousand-year peak.In the days following an unusually severe storm, the inhabitants of a...
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With Lord of the Isles, David Drake returns to fantasy with a towering and complex epic of heroic adventure in an extraordinary and colorful world where the elemental forces that empower magic are rising to a thousand-year peak.In the days following an unusually severe storm, the inhabitants of a tiny seaport town travel toward romance, danger, and astonishing magic that will transform them and their world.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780812522402 (0812522400)
Publish date: August 15th 1998
Publisher: Tor Fantasy
Pages no: 625
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
Epic Fantasy,
Literature,
Epic,
High Fantasy,
European Literature,
American,
Sci Fi Fantasy,
German Literature,
Heroic Fantasy,
Sword And Sorcery
Series: Lord of the Isles (#1)
I gave up after about two hundred pages, the story just couldn't hold my interest. Not sure why--there have been books I've hated with a passion and I could point to this that jarred or that which annoyed. The style was pleasant enough and there were some interesting magical concepts, but the world ...
5/2013 ** I enjoyed it, but I'm not dying to go out and read the other 8 books in the series.Downside 1: I kept wondering if I'd wandered into a Robert Jordan series. The first part, with the young man leaving his home reminded me of the first book of the Wheel of Time series.Downside 2: It was som...
Overall, Lord of the Isles was a fun read. The characters are all pretty likable and the world they live in is a bit different than your normal fantasy fare. However, the way the story goes the confluence of so many seemingly important people in one small little hamlet is pretty inexplicable. Perhap...
Overall, Lord of the Isles was a fun read. The characters are all pretty likable and the world they live in is a bit different than your normal fantasy fare. However, the way the story goes the confluence of so many seemingly important people in one small little hamlet is pretty inexplicable. Perhap...
Overall, Lord of the Isles was a fun read. The characters are all pretty likable and the world they live in is a bit different than your normal fantasy fare. However, the way the story goes the confluence of so many seemingly important people in one small little hamlet is pretty inexplicable. Perhap...
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