Lord of the Isles
The flagship volume in a towering new epic of fantasy adventure from the bestselling author of The Dragon Lord. A woman sorcerer, who has been miraculously transported from 1,000 years past, is cast upon the shore of a small island backwater. Here she finds herself far from the new centers of...
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The flagship volume in a towering new epic of fantasy adventure from the bestselling author of The Dragon Lord. A woman sorcerer, who has been miraculously transported from 1,000 years past, is cast upon the shore of a small island backwater. Here she finds herself far from the new centers of power, but among a small group who, unknowingly, will immediately become the focus of a new struggle for dominance and magical power that will shake this world--and others.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781429911689 (1429911689)
Publish date: February 7th 2006
Publisher: Tor Fantasy
Pages no: 640
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...