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  <title><![CDATA[The White Gryphon (Valdemar: Mage Wars, #2)]]></title>
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  <default_description>The Wite Gryphon is Skandranon,the Black Gryphon, who has returned to his natural plumage now that the time of war is at an end. He has taken his people, gryphons and human allies alike, to the coast where they have built an eyrie city in the cliffside. But though the troubles from without have pretty much ceased, wherever there are communities of people, there will be mavericks and rogues with agendas of their own. In exiling one such, a doctor using his patients for his own ends, Skandranon and White Gryphon's ruling council begin a sequence of events that threatens the future of their entire city.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1995</original_publication_year>
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Amanda Davis]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176845.The_White_Gryphon_Valdemar_Mage_Wars_Book_2_" title="The White Gryphon (Valdemar, Mage Wars, Book 2) by Mercedes Lackey">The White Gryphon</a> was a fairly entertaining fantasy book, and it proved to be an excellent follow up to <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176804.The_Black_Gryphon_Valdemar_Mage_Wars_Book_1_" title="The Black Gryphon (Valdemar, Mage Wars, Book 1) by Mercedes Lackey">The Black Gryphon</a>.</p><br/><p>Following the events of <em>The Black Gryphon</em>, the survivors of the Cataclysm have established the settlement of White Gryphon on the northern border of the Haighlei Kingdoms. ...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49416239">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lackey is one of my favorite authors ever!  I started reading her in 8th grade but I will still pull out her books to reread them.   Her character building is really her main strength – you want to meet her characters – which is probably why I always reach for her books as a pick-me-up, it’s l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13848494">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46471523">
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not great, but not bad.  Just like in many of her other books Lackey goes a bit overboard with some of her descriptions—to the point of redundancy.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="10124157">
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  <date_added>Fri Dec 07 21:22:16 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Apr 11 14:03:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was interesting in that it shows a direct interaction of the Kaled'a'in and another culture.  First Contact, as it were.  However, I found the plot overall to be rather weak, and would recommend almost any other Valdemar series over this, with the exception of the Black Gryphon being a pre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10124157">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43176215">
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a great series. ]]></body>
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    <review id="36210447">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[undiscerning fantasy lovers]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Oct 25 20:25:32 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 25 21:15:47 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unfortunately I didn't feel this book lived up to the promise of its predecessor. And the murder-mystery-in-a-foreign-land story where our heroes, as ambassadors, are under suspicion, is an overused plot device that I hate to see in a beloved series. So maybe I'm biased. Either way, it was disappoin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36210447">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41169603">
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Feb 19 06:17:44 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book isn't as good as the first in the series, but I love the twists that the authors added to keep the story moving...like Hadanelith's madness, and the Haighlei's resistance to change.]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Sun Sep 07 16:33:58 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed the mystery she put into the middle book of this series, making it better than most of her middle books of trilogies.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty weak, especially in comparison to the first of this &quot;series.&quot; Lackey seems to be pretty hit-and-miss.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[love to read them all]]></body>
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