The Gift
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781441862754 (1441862757)
Publish date: April 12th 2011
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Edition language: English
Series: The Books of Pellinor (#1)
How did I not notice this novel until now? Shame on me! Go buy it, all of you! Go now and get the whole set! I'm in process of getting the rest of them into my hot little hands. The book opens with a marvelous "Note on the text", explaining that these folk tales from the Annaren society have not e...
My son and I both enjoyed this book. It dragged for us through at least the first half but by the end, we were involved and interested and debating on getting the second one.
Taschenbuch: 496 SeitenVerlag: Bastei-Lübbe; Auflage: 5. (25. Februar 2009)Sprache: DeutschISBN-10: 340428514XISBN-13: 978-3404285143Originaltitel: The gift Inhalt: Maerad ist eine Sklavin in einer kleinen, unwirtlichen Siedlung. Hier lebt sie schon, seit ihre Familie im Krieg ums Leben gekommen...
As it has been some time since I last tried to read this book (my fifth such attempt), I don't remember enough to write a full review of it. Since I didn't even finish it - though getting farther than I have ever done - perhaps that is best. See, this is one of those fantasies that sounds like a g...
Pretty standard fantasy fare with bards and true names and a root language. The setting of it in a pseudo earth past is a little too much really and the story would have worked as well without that conceit. Maerad starts off as a slave and is rescued by the Bard Cadvan, one of the great bards of Li...