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Forest Mage: The Soldier Son Trilogy Kindle Edition
Plague has ravaged the prestigious King's Cavalla of Gernia, decimating the ranks of both cadets and instructors. Yet Nevare Burvelle has made an astonishingly robust recovery, defeating his sworn nemesis while in the throes of the disease and freeing himself—he believes—from the Speck magic that infected him. And now he is journeying home to Widevale, anticipating a tender reunion with his beautiful fiancée, Carsina, and a bright future as a commissioned officer.
But there is no haven in the bosom of his kinfolk, for his nights are haunted by grim visions of treachery—and his days are tormented by a strange side-effect of the plague that shames his family and repulses the lady of his heart. And as the still-potent magic in his blood roars to life, Nevare realizes a terrible truth: that the enemy who seeks to destroy everything he loves dwells perhaps not without but within him.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarperCollins e-books
- Publication dateOctober 13, 2009
- File size1358 KB
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About the Author
Robin Hobb was born in California but grew up in Alaska. It was there that she learned to love the forest and the wilderness. She has lived most of her life in the Pacific Northwest and currently resides in Tacoma, Washington. She is the author of five critically acclaimed fantasy series: The Rain Wilds Chronicles (Dragon Keeper, Dragon Haven, City of Dragons, Blood of Dragons), The Soldier Son Trilogy, The Tawny Man Trilogy, The Liveship Traders Trilogy, and The Farseer Trilogy. Under the name Megan Lindholm she is the author of The Wizard of the Pigeons, Windsingers, and Cloven Hooves. The Inheritance, a collection of stories, was published under both names. Her short fiction has won the Asimov's Readers' Award and she has been a finalist for both the Nebula and Hugo awards.
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- ASIN : B000JMKSZQ
- Publisher : HarperCollins e-books (October 13, 2009)
- Publication date : October 13, 2009
- Language : English
- File size : 1358 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 736 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 0007196172
- Best Sellers Rank: #343,374 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #280 in Military Fantasy (Kindle Store)
- #1,840 in Space Marine Science Fiction eBooks
- #3,069 in Space Marine Science Fiction
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About the author
Robin Hobb is a New York Times best-selling fantasy author. She is published in English in the US, UK and Australia, and her works have been widely translated. Her short stories have been finalists for both the Hugo and the Nebula awards, as well as winning the Asimov's Readers Award. Her best known series is The Farseer Trilogy (Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, and Assassin's Quest.)
Robin Hobb was born in Oakland California, but grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska. She has spent her life mostly in the Pacific Nortwest region of the US, and currently resides in Tacoma, Washington State, with her husband Fred. They have four grown offspring, and six grandchildren.
Robin Hobb is a pen name for Margaret Ogden. She has also written under the name Megan Lindholm.
She published her first short story for children when she was 18,and for some years wrote as a journalist and children's writer. Her stories for children were published in magazines such as Humpty Dumpty's Magazine for Little Children, Jack & Jill and Highlights for Children. She also created educational reading material for children for a programmed reading series by SRA (Science Research Associates.) She received a grant award from the Alaska State Council on the arts for her short story "The Poaching", published in Finding Our Boundaries in 1980.
Fantasy and Science Fiction had always been her two favorite genres, and in the late 70's she began to write in them. Her initial works were published in small press 'fanzines' such as Space and Time (editor Gordon Linzner). Her first professionally published story was "Bones for Dulath" that appeared in the Ace anthology AMAZONS!, edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson in 1979. A short time later, a second Ki and Vandien story entitled The Small One was published in FANTASTIC in 1980.
During that time period, she and her family had moved from Alaska to Hawaii, and subsequently to Washington State, where they settled. She had various money making occupations (waitress, salesperson, etc.) while striving with her writing. Her husband Fred continued to fish Alaskan waters and was home only about 3 months out of every year. The family lived on a small farm in rural Roy where they raised lots of vegetables, chickens, ducks, geese and other small livestock.
In 1983, her first novel, Harpy's Flight, was published by Ace under the pen name Megan Lindholm. Her later titles under that name included Wizard of the Pigeons, Alien Earth, Luck of the Wheels, and Cloven Hooves.
In 1995, she launched her best selling series of books set in the Realm of the Elderlings. At that time, she began writing as Robin Hobb. Her first trilogy of books were about her popular characters, FitzChivalry Farseer and the Fool. The Farseer Trilogy is comprised of Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin and Assassin's Quest. These books were followed by The Liveship Traders trilogy, set in the same world. The Tawny Man trilogy returned to the tale of Fitz and the Fool. Most recently, the four volumes of the Rain Wilds Chronicles were published: Dragon Keeper, Dragon Haven, City of Dragons and Blood of Dragons.
In 2013, it was announced that she would return to her best-loved characters with a new trilogy, The Fitz and the Fool trilogy. The first volume, Fool's Assassin, will be published in August of 2014.
Other works as Robin Hobb include The Soldier Son trilogy and short stories published in various anthologies. A collection of her shorter works as both Lindholm and Hobb is available in The Inheritance.
She continues to reside in Tacoma, Washington, with frequent visits to the pocket farm in Roy.
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Most of the negative reviews here have focused on these books (and this one in particular) being depressing, boring, or overly-long, and while I certainly see their points, I have to contest all three points. First of all, the fact that Hobb has the power to cause actual feelings of depression in her readers testifies to the emotional intensity of the story and the connectedness readers feel with Nevare. I mean, no matter how bleak Conan the Barbarian's life gets, you don't start feeling sorry for him to the point of being actually sad. There's no emotional attachment there! Nevare's story is absolutely brutal, unfair, sad, and frustrating. And it has incredible emotional impact on readers precisely because Navare as a character is intimately knowable, believable, and sympathetic. It simply demonstrates the talent of the author that she can craft such fleshed-out and like-able characters. And despite the obese, depressed, whore-visiting Nevare not being exactly the typical fantasy hero or easy-to-love, it is his very imperfections and self-doubt that drive the reader up the wall with frustration (and sometimes down the drain with depression). Any story that has such emotional power ranks as well-worth the read to me.
As for being boring, keep in mind that this isn't your typical hack-and-slash, fire-and-lightening, orcs-vs-dwarves fantasy. This is a carefully set up study of our vulnerability and helplessness to fate, as well as our resilience in the face of incredible hardship. And while there might not be many sword fights with between elves and orcs, or midnight flights from Ring Wraiths, there is still lots of more subtle action here. A marked increase in the amount magic in FOREST MAGE (compared with Shaman's Crossing ) is also evident here, with a greater involvement of the Specks, and Nevare's growing understanding of his own power. I suspect that many of the people that complain of this book lacking action are the same that complained of the first being too mundane. In some ways, it is the very mundane-ness and Navare's inaction that make the few moments of true excitement all that much more powerful.
And, while this book is certainly long, I don't think it can be consider TOO long by any means. Every chapter chronicles some new and important event that continues to shape Nevare into who he must become, and the descriptive style of Hobb's is what makes her worlds so intimately knowable. If you can allow yourself to enjoy the detail of the tastes and textures of food for Nevare (that in itself is some of that subtle action), and really get emotionally invested in Neavare's future, I think you'll thoroughly enjoy this captivating story (for all 700+ pages). Personally, I can't wait to read the concluding volume, and will keep my expectation sky-high for Hobb. Highly Recommended!
***Warning, small spoilers in this review. I usually try to avoid these, but with this novel, I don't how else to comment on it.***
While the first novel showed up the maturing of the boy, Nevare, this novel shows the making of the man.
In the first portion of novel, Nevare begins to be stripped of everything in his world. His physical fitness, his education, his love, and his family. Disaster after disaster befall him. Although he attempt to make the best of it, and grows into a man, taking charge and better the area around him, he stil loses everything dear to him.
In the second, and longest portion of the novel, Nevare is broken down to the lowest of the low... weak-spirited, reviled, almost friendless, and constantly attempting conform to his destiny as decided on by his father. Even after his father has renounced him, he stuggles to gain his place in this society that he was "born" to have.
Nevare however is meant for other destinies, no matter how he may try to revolt against them. Over and over his defies this new destiny, only to destroy his current life, and everything around him. Guides and mentors are given to him by his destiny, simultaneously giving him insight and providing him an antagonist to fight against. Temptations are thrown at him from both sides. Nevare is cursed to be torn between two world, able to see the good and evil in both, and unable to give himself completely to either one.
The end of the novel is heartbreaking. Nevare is finally able to commit to one side, but the reader's heart aches for him and his fate.
***End of slight spoilers***
I eagerly await the final novel in the trilogy, hoping against hope, that Nevare is redeemed and is rewarded with all he desires (Just like I did with the Farseer trilogy). Unfortunately, I realize that Robin Hobb's trilogies do not usually end that way, and I doubt that the Solder's Son trilogy will be any different. As soon as the third novel is available for pre-order, I will buy it and check constantly on it status, much like I did for this novel.
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