The intricacies of the mystical land-rule alone are worth the story! This is McKillip's first published series, and the writing in the first book could have been a bit tighter, but even so it is a compelling story, and the writing improves with each volume to the exciting climax. This is a true "other" place, not just a medieval Earth with dragons or wizards. Real originality in the backstory of this series. The second book of the trilogy is Raederle's story, as the first book is Morgon's.ģ. Indeed, Raederle turns out to have a destiny as huge and overpowering as Morgon's, and possibly at odds with it, and they must work out the interweaving of those destinies through a great deal of difficulty. Though the right to Raederle's hand in marriage was won in a riddle-match, she is no prize to be passed without her will. Frequent strong female characters (including a powerful land-ruler who is surrounded by warrior women), none of them waiting around to be rescued. He must, unwillingly, give up as much as he gains, and lose almost everything precious to him, to win the right to become a person he never wanted to be in the first place.Ģ. As he is forced into his quest, Morgon has no specific prophecy to fulfill and has no idea what he is supposed to do or how to do it. He's a working prince of a farming community, and he wants it to stay that way. Though this is a young man-on-a-quest story, he's no cocky princeling, sure of his destiny.
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