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    Owlflight
    Owlflight
    Owlflight
    Audiobook13 hours

    Owlflight

    Written by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon

    Narrated by Kevin T. Collins

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    About this audiobook

    Apprenticed to a venerable wizard when his hunter and trapper parents disappear into the forest never to be seen again, Darian is difficult and strong willed-much to the dismay of his kindly master. But a sudden twist of fate will change his life forever, when the ransacking of his village forces him to flee into the great mystical forest. It is here in the dark forest that he meets his destiny, as the terrifying and mysterious Hawkpeople lead him on the path to maturity. Now they must lead the assault on his besieged home in a desperate attempt to save his people from certain death.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateAug 8, 2017
    ISBN9781541479128
    Owlflight
    Author

    Mercedes Lackey

    Mercedes entered this world on June 24, 1950, in Chicago, had a normal childhood and graduated from Purdue University in 1972. During the late 70's she worked as an artist's model and then went into the computer programming field, ending up with American Airlines in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In addition to her fantasy writing, she has written lyrics for and recorded nearly fifty songs for Firebird Arts & Music, a small recording company specializing in science fiction folk music. Also known as Misty Lackey.

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    • 5/5
      I love hearing (reading) the decision processes of the characters.
    • 1/5
      Ive listened to one other Lackey book and thought i would give her one more chance, but this one suffers the same problem. Its painfully slow and bloated! Large chunks of the writing is just describing things that are not, but could be, or could have been. ”What if this? [describe]. What if that? [ describe].” This pattern can repeat for minutes on end, concluding in no conclusion oher than a waste of time. Lackey in terms of bloat makes Tolkien seem like a limerick writer in comparison.
      ”Show dont tell” does not exist here, here its a different addage ”tell, then describe, then tell what would be if it was not like that, then describe that which wasn’t”.
      The writers must be getting payed by the word minus plot and character progression.
    • 3/5
      I can tell already that this will not be my favorite Mercedes Lackey series. First off, I've always loved the Companions more than the birds. And secondly, the writing style leaves some things to be desired. The story is good as is all Lackey books, and easy to read but there wasn't enough detail or character development here for me. I'm hoping the next two books get better in both of those accounts. I think that the last, at least, should since that is when Darian has grown quite a bit. So sort of looking forward to the next book, but having some hesitation. Beyond that, I know her later books get better at least.
    • 3/5
      I love Mercedes Lackey's books in general. Her Valdemar production in particular.
      However the narrator of this one is just bad. He has an overdramatic cadence that is pretty awful. Which is the reason for the low rating (+++).
    • 4/5
      When I first read this series I thought it was rather sweet and *understanding* and while there is a certain degree of that, this time through, Darien's introduction to life and it's knocks felt more realistic (within the obvious limits of course :-)). By now, of course, Lackey and Dixon are well up on the history of Valdemar and it was nice to see life in the country from the ordinary citizen's perspective and how they treat those who don't fit in to the niches they are assigned.
    • 2/5
      While in general this book shares the faults of all of the Larry Dixon-coauthored books - clunky writing, excessive description, melodrama - I actually dislike it the least. That's not saying much, mind, but it's not totally terrible.

      The look at Valdemar post-mage storms is definitely interesting, and I wish it had stayed closer to Valdemar proper instead of mostly being a Hawkbrothers book. But it's a reasonable YA adventure story, and if it drags in places at least it gets somewhere.
    • 4/5
      Good story. After the grand, world-saving sweep of Storms, we get a trilogy about some ordinary people dealing with the world post-Storms - mages dealing with the change in magic, everybody dealing with the strangeness left behind by the Storms, and everybody dealing with the changes in their lives from the war with Ancar - those who didn't come back, and three changes in what can be done because of that. It's set in a tiny village on the extreme west of Valdemar, which had no healer until a mage injured in the war came to help them; also, between the damage done by the physical storms and the new threats in the Forest, their economic base has gotten a lot weaker. The hero is a boy whose parents hunted the Forest, until they didn't come back; now he's, reluctantly, apprenticed to the mage. That's the setting. Then an attack by an army of northern barbarians, the involvement of a band of Tayledras who were nearby, Darian's (the boy) blossoming, and a new arrangement between Valdemar and the Tayledras, for this far-western area. The book stops there; the story could have, but doesn't. This is my third or fourth reread of the trilogy; this part of the story is necessary foundation, but it's not as good as the next two books. So merely good, not great.
    • 5/5
      I love this book because it was not just a coming of age book, but because both Dixon and Lackey bring to life the village he lived in, reference some of the primary players in the kingdom of Valdemar in the second circling of the cataclysm, but bring in new players.It brings to life the Tayledras and the establishment of a Vale, but more than that brings to life things only hinted at in the final book of the Mage series written about Vanyel. The Northerners come south searching for more power to steal from the stupid humans who must tend the soil and are not men enough to hunt for a livlihood of their own. It explains more about the dangers of the change circles and the devestation after the 2nd Cataclysm that must be cleaned up,And most of all it brings to life the pettiness of people who have problems feeling left out and abandoned by their Kingdom, dealing with someone who does not fit the rest of the villager's ideals and how they unwittingly hurt and nearly destroy someone with good intentions.A mage sacrifices himself, a boy with the help of the Tayledras and their traveling companions, the hertasi and dyheli and a griffon manage to save them and set them free. A fun ready, lots of action and totally appealing characters, even the misguided villagers who can't understand anything different from themselves.
    • 3/5
      I'm generally a fan of Lackey's Valdemar books. This one starts in a way very common to her, as we follow a young man, Darian, who is orphaned and alienated from all around him.One thing that makes this one different from the usual Valdemar books though, is this particular young man isn't destined to become a Herald. Instead we get to learn more about the mysterious Tayledras featured in other books.I wouldn't start here if you are new to Lackey or her Valdemar books--you'd do better, I think, picking up Arrows of the Queen, the first published in the series. But this story, not having characters in common with the other books, is independent enough you wouldn't need to read the other books, and though I think others among the Valdemar books are better, this is still an engaging and entertaining read along sword and sorcery coming of age lines, even if not particularly memorable or striking within that genre.
    • 4/5
      When his trapper parents fail to return from a foray into the Pelagirs young Darian is apprenticed to the village mage. Resent it though he might, Darian has no choice but to obey the bumbling and often ridiculed Justyn whose tales of times more heroic seem to Darian to be pathetic and probably untruthful. But when barbarians invade the village and Justyn makes the ultimate sacrifice, Darian sees that all may not have been quite as he thought after all.Timeline-wise this follows the Mage Storms series and offers a view from the very edges of Valdemar. No epics here, but a closer look at some of the clean-up, as well as the roads superstition, intolerance, and good intentions can lead us down.
    • 5/5
      One of the first Valdemar books I read and one of my favorites. The character Darian seems more realistic than some of the main characters in other Valdemar novels as he is less than perfect which allows me to more readily identify with him. It is enjoyable to see how he develops as a character. I probably read this and it's sequel once a year.