false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173155859m/252589.jpg 252589 6 <div><div><div>In the <i>Lord of the Isles</i>, Drake returns to fantasy with an adventure set in an extraordinary world where the elemental forces that empower magic are rising to a thousand-year peak. Into this world, survivors from the last magical peak intrude: Tenoctris, a quiet and scholarly sorceress swept out of the past at the moment of final catastrophe as her civilization sank beneath the sea; the ghost of the greatest ruler, King Carus of the Isles; and the great magician known only as The Hooded One, who actually caused that ancient catastrophe. </div><div> </div><div>In the days following an unusually severe storm in a tiny seaport town, life is disrupted. First, young Garric rescues the castaway Tenoctris; then, amazingly, a huge galley lands, bearing a court envoy searching for the lost heir to a dukedom - and finding her in Sharina, Garric's sister. Immediately after the galley departs with Sharina to seek out her destiny, another party arrives by coach, led by a merchant sorcerer eager to hire Garric. He sets out with this party, accompanied by Tenoctris and by the shepherd Cashel and his sister, Ilna, both of whom are discovered to have some magical power. Garric and Sharina, Cashel and Ilna, all travel toward romance, danger, and astonishing magic that will transform them and their world.</div></div></div> 244765 1997 Lord of the Isles (#1) total:225|5:46|4:66|3:68|2:34|1:11| 225 777 344 23 1 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 08 01:19:40 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 01:28:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 23:17:41 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 14:44:04 -0700 2009 Lord of the Isles Ilna, one of the four young protagonists, thinks how when weaving you need to have the pattern in mind before you start or else you'd be a poor craftsman. It's a nod to the reader than Drake has carefully planned out his story, has got the pattern straight before h...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Mar 25 12:09:49 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 12:09:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 10:13:43 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 10:18:37 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 07:19:30 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 07:21:16 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Fri Feb 06 17:44:01 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 11:12:40 -0800 2009 0 1 false false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 09:13:28 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 09:15:52 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Fri Mar 06 07:12:58 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 07:13:44 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Tue Oct 07 20:59:41 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 21:04:19 -0700 2008
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Only 4 main charactors - not the chorus you often see in most fantasy. Well worth picking up. Enough edge to ofset the humor. Very human story.]]> 0 0 false false Tue Jan 15 16:48:12 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 16:49:01 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Mon Mar 05 20:39:01 -0800 2007 Wed Mar 07 20:00:37 -0800 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=252589