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A Princess of Landover

By Terry Brooks

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After fourteen years, New York Times bestselling fantasy master Terry Brooks has returned to the magic kingdom of Landover. The remarkable realm of dragons, demons, wizards, and wonders that wove an irresistible spell in five classic novels throws open its gates at long last for a brand-new aContinue

After fourteen years, New York Times bestselling fantasy master Terry Brooks has returned to the magic kingdom of Landover. The remarkable realm of dragons, demons, wizards, and wonders that wove an irresistible spell in five classic novels throws open its gates at long last for a brand-new adventure featuring a dazzling cast of characters and creatures.

Ben Holiday, Chicago lawyer and mere mortal turned monarch of enchanted Landover, has grappled with scheming barons, fire-breathing beasts, diabolical conjurers, and extremely wicked witches. None of whom have prepared him for the most daunting of challengers–a teenage daughter. Sent by Ben and his beloved sylph bride, Willow, to an exclusive girls’ prep school, headstrong (and half-magical) Mistaya Holiday has found life in the natural world a less than perfect fit. And when her latest rebellious antics get her indefinitely suspended, she’s determined to resume her real education–learning sorcery from court wizard Questor Thews–whether her parents like it or not.

But back home in Landover, Mistaya’s frustrated father is just as determined that the precocious princess learn some responsibility, and he declares her grounded until she successfully refurbishes the long-forsaken royal library. Mortified by the prospect of salvaging a king’s ransom in moldy books–and horrified by word that repulsive local nobleman Lord Laphroig seeks to marry her–Mistaya decides that the only way to run her own life is to run away from home.

So begins an eventful odyssey peppered with a formidable dragon, recalcitrant gnomes, an inscrutable magic cat, a handsome librarian, a sinister sorcerer, and more than a few narrow escapes as fate draws Landover’s intrepid princess to the last place she expected to go, and into the thick of a mystery that will put her mettle to the test–and might bring the kingdom to its knees.

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    Welcome back to Landover, Prince of Fantasy!

    Great book! Welcome back Landover...I missed this world so much! I 've read it all in a breath. It has an unexpreced ending, full of events and like is typical for Landover books, we reach the ending of the story in a crescendo. The new character of the Reign is Mistaya: strong, stubborn and impulsi ... (continue)

    Great book! Welcome back Landover...I missed this world so much! I 've read it all in a breath. It has an unexpreced ending, full of events and like is typical for Landover books, we reach the ending of the story in a crescendo. The new character of the Reign is Mistaya: strong, stubborn and impulsive just like a real teenager, despite her "22-years-old brain". In these less than 400 pages we see her growing up and her fight against her own daemons, not only the Abbadon ones. Brooks is able to show us all the facets of a girl so complicated: a bit human, a bit fairy, a bit sylph, that is framed in the end in the sweetness of a re-newed realationship between she and her father, the King Ben Holiday. And so...is the good that always wins, it seems. Or better, let's hope so! (Even if I'm still wondering where Nightshade is now, and it is a good ending and a good starting for a new episode of the saga!)

    p.s.
    A special thought is for Edgewood Dirk:
    I don't like cats so much I have to say, but he's still a very special one. So philosophical and introspective...How could the book have the same intensity without him?

    4 Stars, well gained for me!

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  • English Books
  • Others 352 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0345458524
  • ISBN-13: 9780345458520
  • Publisher: Del Rey
  • Pub date: Aug 18, 2009
  • Dimensions: 1522 mm x 1052 mm x 245 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: eBook
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