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Devan Chronicles #3
The Warrior Within
Courage battles magic as deadly war rages on.
Julia Morton, former Olympian and current sorceress of Athione, has been defeated. As she battles a Tancred addiction, her lover Lord Keverin must journey across Deva in a desperate mission to save her.
The fog of war and winter lie heavy upon the land. Shelim, a former warrior and now shaman of the Night Wind Clan must risk all to persuade an obstinate chief to form an alliance at Denpasser.
Painful choices and dark times lie ahead for Julia and her allies.
Julia Morton, former Olympian and current sorceress of Athione, has been defeated. As she battles a Tancred addiction, her lover Lord Keverin must journey across Deva in a desperate mission to save her.
The fog of war and winter lie heavy upon the land. Shelim, a former warrior and now shaman of the Night Wind Clan must risk all to persuade an obstinate chief to form an alliance at Denpasser.
Painful choices and dark times lie ahead for Julia and her allies.
284 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2003
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Mark E. Cooper
26 books245 followersIncursion: Merkiaari Wars 5 is out now (11/11/2016) http://www.impulsebooks.co.uk/incursion/
Mark E. Cooper lives alone in a small town in the south of England, where he writes most mornings and evenings. His background is in mechanical engineering where he spent over thirty years working for Ford. He loves reading about strong female characters and can often be found laughing to himself as he listens to a book on his iPod.
His hobbies include driving his cobra--a V12 monster he built with his best friend--reading fantasy and sci-fi, and maintaining his blog at http://www.impulsebooks.co.uk/markcoo...
He is now the author of more than eight titles in the genres he loves to read.
Mark E. Cooper lives alone in a small town in the south of England, where he writes most mornings and evenings. His background is in mechanical engineering where he spent over thirty years working for Ford. He loves reading about strong female characters and can often be found laughing to himself as he listens to a book on his iPod.
His hobbies include driving his cobra--a V12 monster he built with his best friend--reading fantasy and sci-fi, and maintaining his blog at http://www.impulsebooks.co.uk/markcoo...
He is now the author of more than eight titles in the genres he loves to read.
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July 25, 2015
Apparently, Tanjung and Japura are only there to set up the dragon return cameo in the next book. And that, I'm guessing is only to have an excuse to get them into a 5th book. But these two countries take up far too much of the book, leaving the main storyline to dangle for a while in chapters entitled, "Interlude (x)" each time. It's almost as if the author wrote the first book and then realized two book later that he needed some filler.
Too much is contrived in this and the 4th book. An assassin kills the unguarded army commander, who happens to be the empress' consort AND a prince. No guards? Middle of the enemy camp? Come on...
How about this: General Navarien is abandoning his Camorin campaign after losing 2/3 of his legion and never getting close to the city walls. In fact, he is encamped and under siege himself. So, as he's packing up, ready to leave, do the victorious Lost Ones wait for him to go? NO! They abandon their city to the defeated enemy. Come on...
Siege engines never seen in this world are suddenly designed by a Tindebraishan fella named Turner who shows up out of nowhere. He also figured out how to make catapults and trebuchet. But only for Darth Vader of the Evil Empire in the form of General Navarien. Come on...
Where earlier in the series sorcerers could not ward normal missiles, now they can ward magic AND arrows, but only the Evil Empire can do both apparently and the "good guys" never seem to figure out hey need to strike when the wards are dropped for javelins to be thrown from the enemy. Come on...
The. We have Shelim, who had a ward that absorbs energy and can be thrown back at the enemy. Only, when he does it, he's dumbfounded and doesn't follow up his ward-breaking attack, giving the Evil Empire time
To throw up a new ward. Bravo. Come on...
Too much is contrived in this and the 4th book. An assassin kills the unguarded army commander, who happens to be the empress' consort AND a prince. No guards? Middle of the enemy camp? Come on...
How about this: General Navarien is abandoning his Camorin campaign after losing 2/3 of his legion and never getting close to the city walls. In fact, he is encamped and under siege himself. So, as he's packing up, ready to leave, do the victorious Lost Ones wait for him to go? NO! They abandon their city to the defeated enemy. Come on...
Siege engines never seen in this world are suddenly designed by a Tindebraishan fella named Turner who shows up out of nowhere. He also figured out how to make catapults and trebuchet. But only for Darth Vader of the Evil Empire in the form of General Navarien. Come on...
Where earlier in the series sorcerers could not ward normal missiles, now they can ward magic AND arrows, but only the Evil Empire can do both apparently and the "good guys" never seem to figure out hey need to strike when the wards are dropped for javelins to be thrown from the enemy. Come on...
The. We have Shelim, who had a ward that absorbs energy and can be thrown back at the enemy. Only, when he does it, he's dumbfounded and doesn't follow up his ward-breaking attack, giving the Evil Empire time
To throw up a new ward. Bravo. Come on...
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January 28, 2016
This is a fantasy book with a witch or female wizard in a world where women do not have the gift. Strong Heroine. I have enjoyed this series an would love to see the next book in the series.
January 3, 2017
Great series
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