The Prodigal Mage (The Fisherman's Children, #1)
by:
Karen Miller (author)
Karen Miller's Asher (The Innocent Mage; The Awakened Mage) returns in the first volume of an ambitious fantasy series. The inhabitants of Lur have lived to see the end the last great Mage War, but it is less clear whether they can survive the onslaught unleashed by the seasons. Of all the land's...
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Karen Miller's Asher (The Innocent Mage; The Awakened Mage) returns in the first volume of an ambitious fantasy series. The inhabitants of Lur have lived to see the end the last great Mage War, but it is less clear whether they can survive the onslaught unleashed by the seasons. Of all the land's sorcerers, only Asher possesses the skills to mend the badly damaged map that governs the weather, but with his health broken, he can manage only a temporary fix. With his father on his deathbed, Asher's son Rafel must find the resources and resolve to complete the mission.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780316052900 (0316052906)
Publish date: August 10th 2009
Publisher: Orbit
Pages no: 512
Edition language: English
Series: The Fisherman's Children (#1)
I liked the other Mage-books; the next book in the series was a real page-turner! This book, however, was boring me to tears. Hardly anything was happening and there was a lot of angry, long winded dialogue.
I was really not impressed. I liked the first duology- liked, not loved- and I'm not really sure I see the point of this second one. It's perfectly legit that after a miraculous rescue a country is still going to have problems. What's not as legit is how everyone whines and backbites their way throu...
This book didn't make me feel sympathetic or any other kind of connection with the characters to make me want to read the sequel to it. All the characters seemed to be really extreme: either extremely cocky, extremely arrogant, extremely stupid, extremely fragile, extremely helpless, extremely annoy...
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