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    Owlknight
    Owlknight
    Owlknight
    Audiobook14 hours

    Owlknight

    Written by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon

    Narrated by Kevin T. Collins

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    From fantasy legends Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon comes the third and final volume in a powerful saga charged with war and magic, life and love . . .

    Two years after his parents' disappearance, Darian has sought refuge and training from the mysterious Hawkbrothers. Now he has opened his heart to a beautiful young healer. Finally Darian has found peace and acceptance in his life. That is, until he learns that his parents are still alive-and trapped behind enemy borders . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 31, 2017
    ISBN9781541479142
    Owlknight
    Author

    Mercedes Lackey

    Mercedes entered this world on June 24, 1950, in Chicago, had a normal childhood and graduated from Purdue University in 1972. During the late 70's she worked as an artist's model and then went into the computer programming field, ending up with American Airlines in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In addition to her fantasy writing, she has written lyrics for and recorded nearly fifty songs for Firebird Arts & Music, a small recording company specializing in science fiction folk music. Also known as Misty Lackey.

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    • 4/5
      This is the concluding book in the Owlflight trilogy and Darien and Keisha have become a pair while Darien himself has become the acknowledged leader of the new vale he and his Hawkbrother colleagues have established outside the Valdemaran village of Errold's Grove, itself recognised by the Crown as a significant area in the Northern defences of Valdemar, even to the extent of having a pair of Heralds sent there as an embassy.Darian reckons that all this is fine and dandy but it's time that he does something he should have done years ago and he finds out what happened to his parents, especially when one of the Northern tribes that were turning up with increasing regularity had a waistcoat that was a direct copy of one his mother had made for a much younger Darian.Again, this was a good book and brings the trilogy to a fitting conclusion
    • 5/5
      LOVED IT. I love all of Lackey's books, all of her characters are so amazing and you just get pulled in every time; I hope she makes more Valdemar books, they're so fun because of all the recurring characters we all love.
    • 3/5
      This series was my least favorite of the Valdemar books.
    • 2/5
      Eh. This book was sort of muddled and overlong, and I think the entire "knight" subplot was created just so the title could rhyme with the others. (There is no indication in any other book that "knight" is an actual title used in Valdemar.) The actual adventure isn't bad, although the ending is a little too pat, but the fact that it didn't actually start until halfway through the book tried my patience.

      Not the worst of the Valdemar books, and the Owl stuff isn't the worst trilogy, but it's really not up to par with the best of them, and it's more obviously aimed at a YA audience without really being short and punchy enough to play to that market's strengths.
    • 4/5
      Yeah, that's good. It takes quite a while to get started - the first third or more is planning for and description of some complicated ceremonies, welcoming the Heralds who will be stationed in the Vale (including Shandi) while making Darian a knight of Valdemar and a brother of the Ghost Cat tribe. Then chance and choice combine and Darian learns that his parents are still alive, and far to the north. He and his friends set out to find them, with adventures of many sorts along the way - from encounters with yet more Northern spirit-totems to a battle with a cold-drake. What they find is all Darian could have hoped for, and more, and less; the final battle with the Eclipse Shaman is - almost a distraction from the real story. The ending always makes me cry, and laugh. And a proper happy-ever-after to round things out. Darian's story is much lighter, and smaller in scope, than some of the others; it's not one of my favorites, either, though quite enjoyable. But there are some scenes, mostly in this book, that are up to the best in the rest of the Valdemar stories. Good book.
    • 3/5
      This is the concluding book in the Owl Mage series, that began with Owlflight and continues in Owlsight, so you should read those first. I'm a fan of Lackey's Valdemar books, and for a fan this is well worth the read. What's best about it, I think, is the world-building. In this story we get to see more beyond the Heralds and horse-shaped Companions of the first Valdemar books, and it's fun to see the fleshing out of the Hawkbrothers, the gryphons, the dyheli; Lackey's good at giving a sense of an alien sensibility with those last, deer-shaped magical creatures. There's also innovative, inventive magic in this trilogy I appreciated.I certainly enjoyed the novels, including this conclusion, and it's better than many a published fantasy out there. If I'm only giving this 3 stars, it's because I think there is better among Lackey's works, and Darian's story never quite touches me the way say Talia's and Vanyel's did. I doubt I'd ever want to reread the Owl trilogy. (Talia's story is the first of the Valdemar books, begun in Arrows of the Queen, and if you've never read Lackey's Valdemar tales, that's where I'd start. Or with Vanyel's story in Magic's Pawn, which comes earlier chronologically)
    • 4/5
      Darian has never quite given up hope of finding his parents. Now, even as the K'Vala Vale matures into a real place of peace and negotiation between envoys - even the arrival of a real, honest-to-goodness Herald Mage on permanent posting - he finds his thoughts turning to what might have befallen them. Fortuitously, signs that his father may have survived coincide with the appearance of a familiarly marked piece of trade goods from the far northwest. Tracking them will be a difficult proposition, but with a team of ready volunteers, not impossible.A bit rushed feeling, but not an unlikely conclusion to the trilogy.