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The beautiful maiden Jewel is the center of her parent's joy. She is the embodiment of their true love and she has grown up surrounded by peace and love in abundance. Jewel's world cruelly shatters when her parents are suddenly killed and she and her uncle Eoin are forced to flee. Leaving the only home she has ever known, Jewel learns that her parents, caught in a tangle of a tragic prophecy, had hidden in the marshland for years to protect the secret knowledge that Jewel is the last of the line of the Janus Jaravhor, the dreaded sorcerer of Strang. That she might be the one person in the world who could unlock the mysterious Dome that is told to hold all of Janus's secrets. And that King Maolmordha now knows of her existence and will stop at nothing to find her. Pain and loss follow and Jewel must make her way alone. Rescued by a traveling band of Weathermasters, exalted magicians who control the heavens for the rich and powerful, she is taken to High Darioneth and is accepted into this tightly knit community. And not just accepted, but loved, for one of the young weathermasters beheld her and his heart was lost. Jewel is left with the promise of true love and a powerful secret. But which path will she choose--and who will suffer if she makes the wrong choice?… (plus d'informations)
The writing isn't getting any better – we still have acres of prolix description, and the heroine is predictably beautiful. (And, naturally, the hero is handsome and extremely powerful.) And her use of various dialects is pretty awkward – I can only assume that the ghastly accent alloted to the Grïmnørslanders is meant to be a phonetic rending of a New Zealand accent. It certainly makes for unpleasant reading:
“They feshion fine walkung stucks in Birchbroom, ez will ez bissoms.”
Regardless of what on earth that's meant to sound like, I can only hope it won't be making a return in later volumes.
But … the story is interesting, and offers a twist on a number of different myths. It's shaping into a possibly interesting series. Some tighter editing would help – apart from how tiresome the excessive description becomes, there are still a number of places where she uses words that she doesn't seem to understand properly. (I'm still trying to work out what colour she had in mind in The Iron Tree when she kept referring to Jarred having cardamom coloured hair …) ( )
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The beautiful maiden Jewel is the center of her parent's joy. She is the embodiment of their true love and she has grown up surrounded by peace and love in abundance. Jewel's world cruelly shatters when her parents are suddenly killed and she and her uncle Eoin are forced to flee. Leaving the only home she has ever known, Jewel learns that her parents, caught in a tangle of a tragic prophecy, had hidden in the marshland for years to protect the secret knowledge that Jewel is the last of the line of the Janus Jaravhor, the dreaded sorcerer of Strang. That she might be the one person in the world who could unlock the mysterious Dome that is told to hold all of Janus's secrets. And that King Maolmordha now knows of her existence and will stop at nothing to find her. Pain and loss follow and Jewel must make her way alone. Rescued by a traveling band of Weathermasters, exalted magicians who control the heavens for the rich and powerful, she is taken to High Darioneth and is accepted into this tightly knit community. And not just accepted, but loved, for one of the young weathermasters beheld her and his heart was lost. Jewel is left with the promise of true love and a powerful secret. But which path will she choose--and who will suffer if she makes the wrong choice?
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“They feshion fine walkung stucks in Birchbroom, ez will ez bissoms.”
Regardless of what on earth that's meant to sound like, I can only hope it won't be making a return in later volumes.
But … the story is interesting, and offers a twist on a number of different myths. It's shaping into a possibly interesting series. Some tighter editing would help – apart from how tiresome the excessive description becomes, there are still a number of places where she uses words that she doesn't seem to understand properly. (I'm still trying to work out what colour she had in mind in The Iron Tree when she kept referring to Jarred having cardamom coloured hair …) ( )