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Hundreds of years before the great Mage War, a land lies, unknowing, on the edge of catastrophe...
Barl is young and impulsive, but she has a power within that calls to her. In her city, however, only those of noble blood and with the right connections learn the ways of the arcane. Barl is desperate to learn-but her eagerness to use her power leads her astray and she is banned from ever learning the mystic arts.
Morgan holds the key to her education. A member of the Council of Mages, he lives to maintain the status quo, preserve the mage bloodlines, and pursue his scholarly experiments. But Barl's power intrigues him-in spite of her low status.
Together, he realizes they can create extraordinary new incantations. Morgan's ambition and Barl's power make a potent combination. What she does not see is the darkness in him that won't be denied.
A Blight of Mages is the new novel set in the world of Karen Miller's bestselling debut The Innocent Mage.
- Sales Rank: #280661 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Orbit
- Published on: 2012-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x 1.75" w x 4.25" l, .75 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 800 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
"Adventure, magic, friendship, love, and a battle of good versus evil - I can see this tale becoming a classic." --- Scifichick.com on The Awakened Mage
"Karen Miller has it all and writes it well." --- Blogcritics.org on The Awakened Mage
"Intriguing characters and a finely tuned sense of drama..." --- Library Journal on The Innocent Mage
About the Author
Karen Miller was born in Vancouver, Canada, and moved to Australia with her family when she was two. Apart from a three-year stint in the UK after graduating from university with a BA in communications, she's lived in and around Sydney ever since. Karen started writing stories while still in elementary school, where she fell in love with speculative fiction. She's held a variety of interesting jobs but now writes full-time.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Wow . . .
By Confused
I thought that this was one of Karen's best books. There was a ton of magic, but it showed it from the perspective of a mage (science and art). Magic was definitely used as an allegory to the perils of genetic engineering and perhaps atomic power.
This book is a great character study of both Barl, Morgan (Morg), and their families. I surprisingly enjoyed the development of Morgan, even though he was the supreme villain in other books. Jervale and the olkens have a minimal presence as the book concludes in the migration to Lur.
I remember glazing over tons of pages in Innocent Mage, Awakened Mage and the Fisherman's Children series just waiting for something to happen. Then in the end there was always a major clincher out of no where to get you to buy the next book. In those books it seemed that once the characters were developed a side plot had yet to be created in order to decide why we readers care. Plot and character development did not compliment each other. I did not read those books because I found an interesting fantasy plot or conflict but because I became attached to the characters.
This is where a Blight of Mages blows the others away. I felt like there was a clear plot that intertwined exquisitely with the characters. Of course, there could only be one ending and I was able to sympathize with both Barl and Morgan.
You won't be disappointed if you read it.
21 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
Repetitive, boring and unsophisticated
By Williams
After readings books 1 & 2 of the Godspeaker trilogy, I swore on a stack of onions that I would NEVER read a Karen Miller book again. I was sucked in by the grittiness and blurred lines between light and dark in Empress, but was shocked dumb almost from the start of The Riven Kingdom, because it was so simplistic. It was the first time, after reading fantasy for 20 years, that I'd never finished a complete trilogy.
But I picked this one up anyway without reading the back, just because of its size and because I wanted to give NOT being a fantasy snob a try for once. I buy books and toss them after 100 pages if I get annoyed -- I learned this lesson after reading the first 3 books in Elizabeth Haydon's Rhapsody series before finally being disgusted enough to simply throw them out and not read ANY. MORE. -- but I'm trying to teach myself to give any and every kind of author a chance. What a mistake. This experience has proven to me that my first instincts about books, and authors, are usually right.
I guess this is supposed to be a prequel to other books set in this world, right? It does not inspire me to read anything from this author ever again. The plot is easy to follow: in a land where almost everyone can use magic, there is a caste system set up called "ranking". An unranked girl fights against being unprivileged, while a ranked guy fights against having privilege. They meet halfway through the book, fall in love, create some crazy magic, yadda yadda.
My issue wasn't with the plot, although it was simple and full of unsophisticated arguments for and against caste systems and the privileges of the wealthy. It wasn't even with the magic, which was boring and wholly unimaginative (think incants, sigils and crucibles). My issue with this book was the DIALOGUE: its inability to be interesting, advance the plot or story, distinguish one speaker from another, or say something DIFFERENT.
(Edited to add that there are spoilers below.)
95% of the conversations in this book were arguments. I am not over-exaggerating, although I wish I was. Someone "snapped" or "said tartly" or "said stiffly" or "shouted" or some other adjective in almost EVERY. SINGLE. CONVERSATION. By page 450 or so, I found myself sighing every time I saw quotation marks because I knew an argument was going to break out. The arguments began on page 2 and didn't actually end until the last chapter of the book. It made the book boring. REALLY boring. And it was hard to sympathize with any of the characters because every conversation devolved into an argument that had been hashed out multiple times already. In real life, YES that happens. In a book, dialogue should advance the plot. This repetitiveness, along with the constant descriptions of ridiculous thaumaturgic/magical theories that weren't scientific enough to make them believable and, instead, sounded like a bunch of words jumbled together that the author pulled out of her ***, made the first 667 pages excruciating to read.
Then, out of NOWHERE, without even deigning to begin a new chapter, 5 pages of italics describe a year-long exodus of 100,000 people across 4 or 5 countries where almost everyone dies. Then the very next page -- mind you, this is after 673 pages -- introduces a brand new character and POV. And another argument.
WTF?
(Also, just an honorable mention to Ms. Miller's ATROCIOUS attempt at "high speech" amongst the wealthy, and repetition of the endearment "my dear" -- it probably appears in the book at least 200 times.)
I have never, in my entire life, read anything so longwinded and droll, with the exception of one of my own Amazon book reviews. This book could have easily cut out at least 1/3 of the pages, and I wish it had because then I never would have picked it up on a whim. I trudged through the book angrily, unpleasantly resentful by the time I passed page 200. The contrived, transparently juvenile plot, cliched love story and boring, repetitive dialogue made me swear on a stack of potatoes (which I value much more than onions alone) that I would never, ever, EVER read another book written by Karen Miller, or one of her pseudonyms, again.
If you're a serious fantasy reader (which I like to think I am), stay away from this book. If you're looking for a long book with a simple plot and ZERO political intrigue and unsophisticated magic that is written for 12 year old girls and boys who still play with dolls, read this book; but watch out for the closet sex scene and the 3 or 4 expletives that were thrown in for funsies.
I'll give it 2 stars because the story was interesting enough that it COULD have been redeemed, by:
-Making the Arndel/Barl story take up 3 or 4 chapters instead of comprising the plot for the first 3rd of the book. There wasn't anything interesting about it, or funny, or thought-provoking -- the outcome was obvious after their first argument (which started on PAGE 2, people).
-Omitting the Maris Garrick story. It was STUPID, OBVIOUS, and didn't add to, or advance, the plot in any way, shape or form.
-Cutting out the arguments between Barl and Remmie. We get it, they're twins, they argue, he forgives her, they hug it out, bro. 2 or 3 times would have been enough.
-Omitting ALL chemical, magical and "thaumaturgic" theory conversations and soliloquies.
-Getting rid of 3/4 of the "romance" between Barl/Morgan.
-Seriously, cutting all but ONE of the "conversations" (read: arguments) between Morgan and his father. It was the same dialogue EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
-Spending MORE time on the actual exodus to Lur than 5 flippin' pages. I was more interested in that than ANYTHING else that happened in the book.
Don't. Just don't read it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Karen Miller's worst
By panc.jefe
I have really enjoyed Karen Miller's other books, including Innocent Mage and the Awakened Mage; however, A Blight of Mages was just plain terrible. The dialog was drawn out, tedious and just boring. I skipped page after page and didn't miss a thing. It seemed like she was just trying to plump things up to make a fatter book. That was bad enough, but at least there was a good story going along.. until the last 150 pages or so. At that point the entire story shifted, went completely off track. She resorted to multiple pages of text in italics to yank the storyline away from the rest of the book, inserted it into a new place with a wholly new set of characters, introduced virtual superpowers to the heroine, and then ended it not with a conclusion, but with a period. Extremely disappointing. A waste of good reading time.
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