Maggie Furey
Paperback | Pages: 512 pages Rating: 3.76 | 991 Users | 26 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Heart of Myrial (Shadowleague #1) |
| Author | : | Maggie Furey |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 512 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 2000 by Orbit (first published 1999) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Dragons. High Fantasy. Epic Fantasy |
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This fast-moving adventure opens Maggie Furey's second fantasy sequence, "The Shadowleague"; her first was the "Artefacts of Power" tetralogy. The Heart of Myrial is set in a particularly artificial-seeming fantasyland, which proves to be not a world but a technomagical construct, divided into isolated regions by sorcerous barriers of force. Thanks to the machinations of a bad guy who may have good motives, these "curtain walls" are now failing--the first symptoms being clashes between the enclaves' different environments, leading to prolonged descriptions of truly lousy weather. In theory the barriers are guarded by and can be penetrated only by Loremasters of the Shadowleague, a secret inner circle of representatives from this patchwork world's various species: humans, dragons, centaurs, wind-sprites, insectile aliens, and more. In practice the Shadowleague is almost impotent.Against this complex background, various characters struggle across the landscape through terrible weather. A woman Loremaster and her irrepressibly feisty firedrake companion play leading parts in the large cast (many of whom suffer death or worse). After tortuous regroupings and plot twists centered on a particular city that houses a key magical shrine, the book concludes with a gory invasion of nasties through the holed curtain wall. It reads well enough, and of course there's more to come. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk
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| Original Title: | The Heart of Myrial (The Shadowleague, Book 1) |
| ISBN: | 1857239717 (ISBN13: 9781857239713) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Shadowleague #1 |
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Ratings: 3.76 From 991 Users | 26 ReviewsNotice Appertaining To Books The Heart of Myrial (Shadowleague #1)
Ugh. What a slowly paced book. The last half of it took dedication to finish and felt like pulling teeth to get anywhere. I would not recommend this book to my friends, at all. I will admit, I bought it based on the cover and it sounded good from the back. Since I've finished the book it has gone straight to the sell pile. However, I did enjoy some of the characters. Others I was hoping would die as it would at least end their plot involvement and maybe move some of the story along. It seemedI read this series many years ago and thought it might be nice to start to read them again. Not sure why but I just couldn't get into this, the first book. When I read a book I give it to page 100 if I'm not keen just to make sure I am not being unfair. What did I see in these books the first time round? Goodness knows! I have too many more books that are waiting to be read so decided today after reading to just after 100 pages that I would much prefer to move onto my next book waiting to be
There are some hints that this may be a similar (perhaps thousands of years later) world to the one that the Aurian Saga takes place in. I really like both the character descriptions and the premise and will be looking for the rest of the books in this series. Each character's both positive and negative attributes are discussed. Even the "bad guys" have something redeeming about them or make you empathize with them.
Ingenious ideas. Awful storytelling. Yes, I am reading another series so that you dont have to.Just when I went down to 10 open series the word Myrial shouted at me from the shelves and I was suddenly not sure why-ever I have thought that starting the 11th one would be a bad idea. And really, nothing heralded the disaster because we enter a world that has been superficially created as a safe haven for species endangered in their worlds of origin. There is a whole menagerie of those creatures
I read this growing but remembered I loved it. The story was captivating and it introduced me to a new style of writing as she changed characters in each chapter; the end of each left me wanting more.
Book one of the trilogy. Again, this was one of those "I randomly grabbed it off the shelf in the bookstore" finds..They were really great though, and Veldan was such an interesting heroine.. Anyway, yeah. If you like fantasy, it's really, really fun.
Good trashy fantasy is hard to find. Maggie Furey tried, but this is mediocre trashy fantasy, at best.
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