Foundation: The Collegium Chronicles (Valdemar Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (807 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1423307984 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 454 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Thanks to court intrigues and an attempt by foreign infiltrators to trick Valdemar to its disadvantage, Lackey makes a real page-turner out of Mags’ and the collegia’s development. 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. Though similar in some ways to both Brightly Burning (2000) and Take a Thief (2001), this book’s outstanding characters, especially Mags, will greatly please Valdemar fans. 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
Some of her other novels include The Gates of Sleep, Sacred Ground, The Firebird, The Black Swan, and The Serpent's Shadow. . She lives in Oklahoma. She is the coauthor, with Andre Norton, of the Halfblood Chronicles, including Elvenborn. Mercedes Lackey is the author of the Valdemar series, including Take a Thief and Exile's Honor
"Good start to a decent series" according to 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 sets of books (usually trilogies) and individual titles that are semi-indepen. P. T. Hill said Sometimes you can't go home again. 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 five in the series) reads as if it is written for younger readers - even y. "new for young readers" according to Lisa Williamson. 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 the room. While she may lose points in continuity with some, after so many b
When he was big enough to see over the sides of the sluices he had gone to work at the mine. 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. Blood so bad that no one had wanted to take him in except Cole Pieters. Mags had been working at the Pieters’s mine, slaving in the dark, cold seams, looking for sparklies, for as long