Mage of Clouds by S. L. Farrell ISBN 9780756402556, 0756402557 instant download

Mage of Clouds by S. L. Farrell ISBN 9780756402556, 0756402557 instant download

The Cloudmages fantasy saga continues...

DAW continues the "vividly depicted" (Publishers Weekly) epic series that began with Holder of Lightning. Mage of Clouds: The Cloudmages #2 opens 17 years after the end of Holder of Lightning. Jenna MacEagan has been Banrión since the end of the devastating war with the other Tuatha, and an uneasy peace has held. But now Jenna's daughter Meriel is about to become a pawn in their enemy's bid for power.

In Farrell's second richly imagined Cloudmages fantasy (after 2003's Holder of Lightning), the younger generation takes center stage. It's been almost 20 years since the mage-lights returned to the sky and Meriel MacEagan's mam, Jenna, found Lamh Shabhala, the mage-stone that reawakened the other clochs. With it, Jenna has become the Banrion of Inish Thuaidh and has managed to form an uneasy truce with the other Tuathaan. But the old Rí Ard is dying, and his successors - Jenna's half brother Doyle Mac Ard and the Ri Ard's daughter Edana - are more than willing to reopen the war with the Inishlanders. And while Lamh Shabhla and its holder may be too powerful to attack directly, her family is not. The author deftly manages Meriel's journey from the sheltered and innocent Banrion's daughter of the book's opening chapters to the grounded and powerful woman she will become - and from hostage to healer. Intriguing, fully developed characters abound. This entry can only enhance Farrell's reputation as one of the rising stars of Celtic fantasy.
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No longer the young, untried girl who stumbled upon Lamh Shabhala, most powerful of the stones that gather the power of the mage lights, Jenna the First Holder has been Banrion, too, since the last, devastating war among the lords and their holders, but that is about to change. The old Ri Ard is weak, possibly dying, and Doyle, Jenna's half brother, is set on obtaining Lamh Shabhala and will spare nothing --not even the life of his niece Meriel, Jenna's daughter --to get it. So Meriel is sent to the Order at Innishfern to be trained to assume Jenna's first-holder duties. Meriel doesn't want the power or responsibility of Lamh Shabhala, however, for she is at heart a healer. In no time at all, Meriel becomes the pawn in a deadly tug-of-war between her mother and her uncle, and the peace she desperately longs for, for herself and her land, seems to be out of reach. A wonderful continuation of the Cloudmages series, begun in Holder of Lightning * [BKL Ja 1 & 15 03]. Paula Luedtke
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