Mage's Blood
Written by David Hair
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About this audiobook
David Hair is the award-winning writer of two young adult fiction series, The Aotearoa and The Return of Ravana (based on the Vedic epic The Ramayana). Mage’s Blood, the first volume of a series called The Moontide Quartet, is Hair’s first work of adult fantasy. In a starred review of Mage’s Blood, Publisher’s Weekly said, “This multilayered beginning to the Moontide Quartet plunges readers into a taut network of intrigue and mystery that tightens with each chapter. Hair portrays a stark and beautiful world breaking apart, with both good and evil characters desperate to reshape it through magic, war, and treachery. This strong debut should draw in fantasy readers of all stripes.”
Most of the time the Moontide Bridge lies deep below the sea, but every twelve years the tides sink and the bridge is revealed, its gates open for trade. The Magi are hell-bent on ruling this new world, and for the last two Moontides they have led armies across the bridge on "crusades of conquest." Now, the third Moontide is almost here, and this time the people of the East are ready for a fight…but it is three seemingly ordinary people that will decide the fate of the world.
David Hair
David Hair lives in Wellington. The Bone Tiki was his first novel, and begins a cycle of novels that begin in his native Hawkes Bay and are set in two parallel New Zealands.
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Reviews for Mage's Blood
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Took a minute to pull me in but it sure did - loved it!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is very well written and was amazingly well performed. It bogs down in the beginning, but it's mainly just world setting. It picks up and never sets down.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Dnf .. just not for me A massive brain dump of world building at the beginning followed by a story split into following several characters… only some of which are interesting
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good but lots of characters, and for me like all books like this, the characters i like get less time and the ones i find boring drone on and on. Thats on me, i just really don’t like multi character books. But its good. So 4 stars.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Got to chapter 16 and I couldn't get into it. . . It's just boring. I can't even figure out why it's boring but it's a snoregasm
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gotta stick with it. I almost gave up in the beginning with all the world building, but it quickly picked up and I didn't even realize I was at the end 24 hours later.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5couldn't make it past the introductory info dump. Its possible to build world settings buy having people do stuff and talk to each other.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good story. Gripping moments and entertaining, but the exact copies of real cultures and awkward similar renaming of common words and names can be irritating. There are some points of originality but I personally dislike when modern culture and technology is mixed into historic settings, when the two really shouldn't mix. But... I'm more than eager to get on to Book 2.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Wildly sexist. Don't waste your time. If you can write c*ck, d*ck, p*nis, etc then you can also write v*gina instead of making up stupid names for it. "Yoni" is pathetic. Every female in this book is poorly written and very basic, mostly used for producing babies. Also a lot of sexual intercourse with minors. Another bad male author, from the hastily made and unorginal story to the ridiculously flimsy characters.
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