Foundation: The Collegium Chronicles (Valdemar Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (605 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501231235 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 513 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Mercedes Lackey is the author of the Valdemar series, including Take a Thief and Exile's Honor. . Some of her other novels include The Gates of Sleep, Sacred Ground, The Firebird, The Black Swan, and The Serpent's Shadow. She is the coauthor, with Andre Norton, of the Halfblood Chronicles, including Elvenborn. She lives in Oklahoma
Good start to a decent series octobercountry I recently read Mercedes Lackey's five-volume series "The Collegium Chronicles." The books, in order, are:FoundationIntriguesChangesRedoubtBastionHere, why don't I jot down a few words about the entire series, and not just the first book (no plot spoilers).Lackey is perhaps best known for her long-running series about the fantasy kingdom Valdemar, and this set of five books are her most recent addition to the saga. The Valdemar books overall don't have to be read in any particular order; the series is made up of both se. "Sometimes you can't go home again" according to P. T. Hill. I was pretty excited about a new series from Mercedes Lackey. And while I've loved the Valdemar books from the beginning, this entire series disappointed me. It's Mercedes Lackey, so it's not going to be horrible! The ideas are good, and I like that the story is set at a time close to the founding of the Herald's Collegium, when Valdemar is undergoing enormous change. The characters are good, the conflicts are good. But the books are flat, redundant, and the kids are whiney (which is realistic), but - meh. The book (all. new for young readers With a main character who starts out as a slave and then is going through the Collegium, this is definately aimed at the younger readers BUT unlike a lot of Ms Lackey's long term readers I enjoyed this story. Too many out there seem to expect too much out of a book. It was a fun read, especially for someone home in bed sick. No it wasn't the greatest book of all time but I dont expect the total dry and tastlessness of a so called "greatest work of fiction" from her. I expect a good read that for a time takes me out of t
Mags had been working at the Pieters’s mine, slaving in the dark, cold seams, looking for sparklies, for as long as he could remember. Then some strangers on huge white horses forced their way past the Pieters family and carried him away to Haven to become a Herald Trainee.Suddenly the whole world opened up for him. But the world of the Collegium was not all heavenly. “Bad Blood” because he’d been found in a cradle in the bandits’s camp. There was political upheaval in Valdemar’s capital, for the court had been infiltrated by foreign “diplomats,” who seemed to be more interested in seeding discontent than in actual diplomacy…and Mags seemed to be the only one who’d noticed.…. Mags knew nothing of the world beyond the mine, and was unaware of how unusual his paltry existence was. Blood so bad that no one had wanted to take him in except Cole Pieters. The children who worked the mine were orphans, kids who had been abandoned, who had lost their parents, or were generally unwanted. But Mags was different.Mags was “Bad Blood,” because his parents were bandits who had been killed in a raid by the Royal Guard. He was warm and well fed f
At that time, the system of heraldic training was changing from one-on-one apprenticeship to the collegial system used by Healers and Bards, because there were too many trainees for the old system. Some older Heralds weren’t happy with that change, and as all three collegia rapidly grew, there was much rivalry for builders and teachers. --Frieda Murray . Young Mags, an orphan who drudges for a greedy, cruel mine owner, is Chosen and eventually brought to Haven for training, where his goodheartedness and near-total ignorance make him very dependent on his companion. From Booklist The new Valdemar novel takes place earlier in the kingdom’s history than has any other, set when the Heralds’ collegium was established. Though similar in some ways to both Brightly