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Author

Julian May

Genre

Fiction

Series

boreal moon

Rating

3.44 of 5 Votes: 5

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ISBN

044101383X (ISBN13: 9780441013838)

Language

English

Publisher

ace hardcover

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Sorcerer's Moon (2006) - Plot & Excerpts

Once again Julian May leads us to a completely boring story with a lot of wasted potential and many flaws in workmanship.In the last book of this trilogy the characters continue to take incomprehensible actions, but this time it leads to the death of many of them. The author does not seem to learn from her previous mistakes making up plans behind the scenes that the reader is only told about after everything is already said and done.In most fantasy tales that I have read the last decisive battle is something the author works towards to create a memorable ending for his/her book. May manages to cram it in it´s entirety into two pages and then cuts to the epilogue.What bugged me the most about the ending is that the epilogue does not really make sense to me. I don´t want to spoiler anyone so I´ll just say that the account of what happened in the years after the great conflict are implausible and contradict the whole political system May created in the first place.The novel could have been much more exciting if it contained more fighting scenes. Except for the two pages at the end the opposing host never clash. All action is done by poison or dagger while being told in a very unsatisfying manner.At the end my review review I want to mention that not even the publisher seemed to care that much about this book. In the cover blurb Maude´s son is named Orrion, but her real son´s name was Dyffig. Orrion was a son of King Corig and Queen Risalla.

Book three in a trilogy. I'd recommend reading the second and third books close together; I had a gap of a few months and couldn't remember half of what had happened in the second book, and it didn't help that book three was set sixteen years after book two!The series gets off to a bit of a slow start, but then gets more interesting as the intrigue level racks up. The underlying premise is unusual (intelligent aurora manipulating the ground-dwelling races by means of magical favours) and works well. The magic is somewhat reminiscent of May's earlier Galactic Milieu work, but the pseudo-medieval setting breathes new life into it.I was a little disappointed with this book, though. It was rolling along quite nicely, but then seemed to finish in rather a rush, almost like the author had run out of ideas. The whole resolution of the major invasion that was taking place seemed just a little too convenient and deus ex machina for my liking. Oh well, it was still a good read.

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I so enjoyed the first book, even with its flaws. The second was a decent follow up, but the third book of the trilogy took a sharp nosedive in quality.First and foremost, there were just too many characters. Killian, a major player in the first two books, barely does anything of note yet still manages to be a focus for the first 150 pages. Dyfrig, who was built up in the second book to be a major player in the politics of Blenhome, does practically nothing in the few segments that actually invo
—Michael Collins