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Fortress in the Eye of Time

By Carolyn Janice Cherryh

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780061056895

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A ruined tower in a vast forest is the haunted home of the world's last great wizard, Mauryl. Here in the storm drenched night, Mauryl performs a final act of the highest Old Magic, a Shaping, hoping that by this most wondrous of spells the wrongs of a long forgotten wizard war may be righted.Continue

A ruined tower in a vast forest is the haunted home of the world's last great wizard, Mauryl. Here in the storm drenched night, Mauryl performs a final act of the highest Old Magic, a Shaping, hoping that by this most wondrous of spells the wrongs of a long forgotten wizard war may be righted.

In the tower, a boy is brought full grown to life. Named Tristen, he is neither golem nor man, and to Mauryl's dismay he has none of the wisdom needed to ensure the success of his last gambit of the wizard's long life. Presented with the precious book that contains the knowledge he needs, Tristen cannot understand a single word. Instead, Tristen loves his maker blindly, and loves the beauty of the world.

Tristen walks alone and helpless from the last outpost of the Old Lands into a new age of holiness rife with treachery and war. A glamour protects him until, as the veils of unknowning are blown aside by events, Tristen's power is manifest. Then Mauryl's enemies become his. And though Mauryl's book is with him always, still Tristen cannot read it.

 

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  • I just couldn't get through this one. I started it twice - finally quit on page 440, still trudging through the prose. Those 440 pages (out of a whopping 800+) contained only 100 pages of interesting bits - and there are too many books in the world to waste my time finishing this one.

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    I just couldn't get through this one. I started it twice - finally quit on page 440, still trudging through the prose. Those 440 pages (out of a whopping 800+) contained only 100 pages of interesting bits - and there are too many books in the world to waste my time finishing this one.

    I'll try another book of hers at another time - hopefully this is not normal for her.

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  • English Books
  • Mass Market Paperback 784 Pages
  • Edition: New Ed
  • ISBN-10: 0061056898
  • ISBN-13: 9780061056895
  • Publisher: Eos
  • Pub date: Jun 01, 1996
  • Dimensions: 1161 mm x 710 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover and Others
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