Changes: Volume Three of the Collegium Chronicles (Valdemar Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (642 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1423308093 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 106 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Highly recommended."—Library Journal "Leaves us simultaneously satisfied—and longing for more. Not an easy feat. This book’s outstanding characters, especially Mags, will greatly please Valdemar fans."—Booklist "Lackey’s back doing what she does best, and the result is affecting and compulsive reading."—Locus "Series fans will enjoy the variations on a familiar theme, while enough information is presented for first-timers to discover a world of high adventure and individual courage. "Lackey makes a real page-turner out of Mags’ and the collegia’s deve
They worked in disguise at night with Mags as Nikolas’s deaf and mute helper, where his extensive knowledge of gemsespecially his skill at separating the real from the fakewould be an added benefit. And most of all they were willing to do anythinganythingto bring Valdemar to ruin.. They were smart, talented, and preternaturally fast. Bear, Lena, and Amily were all students whose situations in life set them apart from more usual Trainees. Though his background of poverty and abuse at Cole Pieters’ gem mine set him apart from most other trainees, nonetheless he had found his own group of friends. Hiding in the shadows behind the desk, pretending to neither hear nor speak, Mags could better “observe” the clients, and even the surrounding neighborhood. For there were mysterious agents in the cityagents who sought to bring down the kingdom, and no one knew where they came from or who they worked for. Mags was a Trainee in the Heraldic Collegium in Haven, Valdemar’s capital city. The seemingly immortal Companion Rolan had Chosen Nikolas to suit the specific needs of the current monarch, and those needs were for an agent who could collect information surreptitiously. Nikolas recognized the same traits in Mags that Rolan had recognized in him and because of Mags’ friendship with Amily, no
Some of her other novels include The Gates of Sleep, Sacred Ground, The Firebird, The Black Swan, and The Serpent's Shadow. She lives in Oklahoma. Mercedes Lackey is the author of the Valdemar series, including Take a Thief and Exile's Honor. . She is the coauthor, with Andre Norton, of the Halfblood Chronicles, including Elvenborn
not as good, sigh Annie I am afraid that I might be getting a little too old for Valdemar in the current books. Ms Lackey's writing lately seems to be tending towards the youth can do everything better - a little too much leaning to the youth audience. "Old farts" had some role in the story but I . Aerin said Transitions. While I have some real problems with this book, I cannot agree with the one and two star reviews either. However, I have the benefit of knowing that this is not the end book of a series; if it had been, I would have been bitterly disappointed.The book is better than the fir. AlyCat said An Exciting Continuation. If you enjoyed the first and second books of the collegium series Foundations and Intrigues you will enjoy this continuation of Mags' journey. Settled in to his life at the Collegium, Mags continues to ferrite out the mystery of his origins and the weapon like assassins tha