- Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: Ace (MM) (Jan 16 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 044100623X
- ISBN-13: 978-0441006236
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.2 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 136 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #898,051 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The enthralling conclusion to the Magelord Trilogy!
An ancient legend of fear still holds the land in its grip. While those with the Power flee King Gavin's wrath, Bjorn, a simple hunter, discovers that he has this same outlawed ability. Persued by the king's legions, Bjorn conjures an escape--and is transported into the past. Now he must marshal his ancestors in order to bring those held down by fear to a new future. For the pain and anguish of his memories must never be repeated...
"Good fantasy ... this book should appeal to many." --Kliatt
An ancient legend of fear still holds the land in its grip. While those with the Power flee King Gavin's wrath, Bjorn, a simple hunter, discovers that he has this same outlawed ability. Persued by the king's legions, Bjorn conjures an escape--and is transported into the past. Now he must marshal his ancestors in order to bring those held down by fear to a new future. For the pain and anguish of his memories must never be repeated...
"Good fantasy ... this book should appeal to many." --Kliatt
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An ancient legend of fear still holds the land in its grip. While those with the Power flee King Gavin's wrath, Bjorn, a simple hunter, discovers that he has this same outlawed ability. Pursued by the king's legions, Bjorn conjures an escape--and is transported into the past. Now he must marshal his ancestors in order to bring those held down by fear to a new future. For the pain and anguish of his memories must never be repeated.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
selfish, childish wish-fulfillment,
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This review is from: House Of Bairn 03 Magelord Trilogy (Paperback)
I have not read the first two books in the MageLord trilogy; if they are similar to "The House of Bairn," I probably never will. Actually, I never felt a need to read them, even to make sense of the third book. That could mean either that each of the three books can stand alone, or it could mean that Martin almost completely dropped earlier plot threads. Based on the book itself, which contained some hints and references to the two earlier books, I'm inclined to suspect the latter."The House of Bairn" opens with Bjorn, a mage-gifted hunter, accidentally unleashing a MageLord on his unsuspecting world. This Lord, Soren, transported himself from the distant past, before the MageLords died in a world-devastating war, and he sends Bjorn back in time to balance his spell. In the past, Bjorn, now called Bairn, becomes an apprentice to the MageLord Rylur. He learns magic and math, while plotting the destruction of the MageLords, who rule the world with no consideration for the powerless. Martin makes an interesting link between this world's magic and modern theories about subatomic particles, and the conversion of matter to energy; in this world, magical Power is produced by the destruction of matter, not a nuclear explosion. Bairn eventually provokes a war between the male Northern Alliance and the female Southern Alliance. After the war, he ends up as the most powerful man in the world, lives for thousands of years until the time he, as Bjorn, released Soren, and returns to set the world to rights. He defeats Soren, and forcibly establishes peace between normal people and the magi, who have lived in hiding according to his laws. He also miraculously saves his parents from death, and ends up with three loving wives. This whole book is basically adolescent wish-fulfillment. Bairn, alone of all people, is willing to study Power reservoirs, and so learns the secret of converting matter to Power; he doesn't tell anyone, and for some reason, Martin assumes no one would ever be able to duplicate Bairn's experiments. Be serious, please. Also, Bairn has so much Power that he can effectively take over the world, and for many intents, does so. He provokes a world-devastating war, instead of trying to change the future. He could save thousands in the years he spends on the moon, yet he only saves his parents. He imposes sanctions against any normal people who harm the magi, and enforces them, yet doesn't do a thing to stop any other crimes. We're supposed to treat this man as the hero? This is supposed to be an emotionally satisfying conclusion to a story of hideous persecution? "The House of Bairn" is selfish, childish trash. No, I wrong trash. This is tripe. It is, however, reasonably well-written and entertaining tripe, though it left me with a very bad taste in my mouth.
1.0 out of 5 stars
This book was terrible,
By Dick Hertz (Green Acres, IA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: House Of Bairn 03 Magelord Trilogy (Paperback)
The reason this book is so bad is because there is a lame storyline. The Holocaust has been written as a story over and over but this one by far is the lamest. He takes mages and creates a storyline for them to be hunted (and killed) by the followers of Hrothgar and some bozo priest. The reason, because the fear the power that they will hold over common non-mage folk. Sounds like the X-men to me, there is not an original thought in this book. The main character who becomes the almight mage Bairn plays a decepitve game of learning all the "powerful" spell he can, become a magelord and take over the world!! In this case it was easier done than said because the "magelords" whom this fraud was being perpatrated were watching re-runs of Max Headroom whilst our "hero" plotted to destroy them. In the first book Valerian is an awesome and powerful mage but we come to find out that he is a low-level chump of one of the dumbest characters ever in a fantasy novel, Rylur the magelord. Valerian, almost single handedly destroyed the entire planet in the first book as a lower mage but the mages in the third book who are much more powerful are like the Keystone Kops. There was no thought or effort into this book, the author was attempting to make a deadline. This book was such a waste of time and money.
1.0 out of 5 stars
A terrible book,
By A Customer
This review is from: House Of Bairn 03 Magelord Trilogy (Paperback)
This book was as fun to read as rearranging my sock drawer. The plot was predictable, the "Magelords" were really a bunch of chowderheads. Save the money, buy more socks.
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