Customer Reviews

Eagle-Sage (The Lon Tobyn Chronicle, Book 3)

5 star:		(13)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

ever since i first read Children of Amarid i have been VERY excited to read any other David B Coe books. the author is an excellent writer and you grow to love the characters, no matter how annoying they are! The plots are very complex and take many turns, nothing is predicatble. I would suggest this book to anyone who likes a good fantasy

yes I read others writing that they found it shallow or unrealistic unreasonable etc...but for me I found it thrilling exciting and nail biting.

I switches back to Jarad as a focal character and his bonding with an eagle which portends war. Along with another mage from a rival league. Civil war breaks out as an evil ghost takes over the power stone of the mages. In the end a curse is broken that binds the dead mages to this realm.

I love the combination of technology and magecraft. High tech verses an agrigarian society. I see the writers soap box platform on saving our old growth forest. I live in the pacific north west and have experienced it a lot and agree.

I look forward to his next book. I find him a fascinating writer with thoughtful insight and three deminsional characters. A real flare for style.

I was a bit hesitant about making this purchase since although I found his first book in the series really amazing and interestingly-concieved, I found the second book a bit of a let-down. This third and final book was truly entertaining and well-crafted, albeit still not quite approaching the level of the first book with its focus on one character's journey. The ending was definitely a let down --- too predictable and not enough emotional resonance was developed in developing the arc of a great romance (there was much potential here that could have borne much greater fruit). Still, a very enjoyable read with interesting ideas and characters that make it difficult to put down; better editing and more thought into a more creative ending with some greater element of tragedy (the writing style seems more superficial in this third book than his first novel, perhaps because of its focus on so many different smaller characters to provide momentum to events rather than character development). Still, much better than what is generally available on the market; I think Mr. Coe is proving himself to be a gifted storyteller. I look forward to reading his next fantasy project.

This is a great read! For people who like fantastic fiction with wizards and villains, it is a must. Each of the three novels is excellent and satisfactory. The Eagle-sage is the final volume and does not loose a beat. The narrative tension or line from book one to the third volume conclusion is great. I read all three at once and find it hard to imagine having to wait a year or more inbetween volumes. Buy all three and enjoy.

As the third book in the series, it was good, but not as good as the prior two. There was a certain tenseness missing that had been in the previous books. It was good, though, to finish the story line, and worth the price.

this was a great grand last book in the series. Fantastic< I went out and got the Newest one Rules of Acension.. It looks to be another good one too.,

There is one thing that you will not like about this book. It will have you wanting MORE at the end. I do not mean that the story is lacking by any means, though. I mean that you will want to know what happens next to the characters and hear more of their stories.

This is actually two books in one. Half of it takes place in Tobyn Ser revolving around Jaryd and the other half in Lon Ser revolving around Meylor. I found it very amazing how Coe seemed to change the characters (there is a ten year period between the happenings in the first book and the third) while keeping them the same. Coe's ability to tell a story is one of the best. You will not get bored or recieve any filler all the while being on they edge of your seat. I had trouble putting this book down and though it is not so in depth as many other fantasy series, it is fun if nothing else. Definately read this series.

There is one thing that you will not like about this book. It will have you wanting MORE at the end. I do not mean that the story is lacking by any means, though. I mean that you will want to know what happens next to the characters and hear more of their stories.

This is actually two books in one. Half of it takes place in Tobyn Ser revolving around Jaryd and the other half in Lon Ser revolving around Meylor. I found it very amazing how Coe seemed to change the characters (there is a ten year period between the happenings in the first book and the third) while keeping them the same. Coe's ability to tell a story is one of the best. You will not get bored or recieve any filler all the while being on they edge of your seat. I had trouble putting this book down and though it is not so in depth as many other fantasy series, it is fun if nothing else. Definately read this series.

I was disappointed in the author Coe's character development for the "Eagle Sage". Marar, rival leader to Melyor, is crafty and ingenious one moment, and then a complete idiot in the next scene. The free-mage Tammen and her bumbling cohorts seem way too venal, gullible, and downright dumb to have survived to become adult mages. Lastly, bringing Sartol back from the dead, more powerful than he ever was alive, seemed a bit hokey to me. Sartol's rise and fall from power in this book appeared to be made up as it went along.

I think Coe should have developed a logic to his system of magic that the reader could grasp. Though the main protagonist Jaryd believes that magecraft is a gift from the gods, the overall stupidity of many of the mages leads the reader to think that the ability is a random genetic fluke of some sort.

I gave this book 3 stars because it is 600+ pages, but keeps the reader enertained and turning the pages right to the end-- despite it's shortcomings.

The beginning of "Eagle-Sage" is quite promising. In the first chapter, Jaryd binds to an eagle, thus fulfilling an ancient prophesy and indicating the mages of the Order will soon go to war. He becomes the new leader of the Order and gathers the mages in the city of Amarid. At first, nobody knows who their enemy will be in the upcoming conflict. The League is still trying to destroy the Order, the Children of the Gods have bought new weapons from Lon-Ser, and a group of "free mages", who serve neither the Order nor the League, are attempting to stir up trouble throughout Tobyn-Ser. Meanwhile, back in Bragor Nal, Melyor has to contend with assassins and a rival sovereign who wants to overthrow her.

It looks like Coe is setting up for a suspenseful finish to his series, but after the first two-hundred pages, the book breaks down. Once the archvillain is revealed, the book loses most of its punch, in part because he turns out to be a weak and poorly-written character, with no apparent personality traits other than a general propensity towards evil. The final four-hundred pages of the book are agonizingly slow (they contain only two action scenes) and developed with almost no skill, as if the author was simply trying to fill up as much space as possible. There are many predictable scenes that should have been omitted. For example, there's one occasion where the head bad guy has Jaryd, Alayna, and several other mages at his mercy, but he decides to leave them alive so that he can taunt them a little longer. Needless to say, this eventually leads to his undoing. How many earlier books and movies have included a scene exactly like this one? Another big problem is the lack of continuity with the earlier books. In "The Outlanders", for instance, Cailin had a vision where she was fighting against a new band of Outlanders, but this event never actually takes place. This sort of mistake suggests that the ending of the series wasn't planned out very carefully. In short, "Eagle-Sage" doesn't even live up to the fairly low standard established by the first two books of the series; I would suggest skipping this one.