The Immortal Prince (The Tide Lords Quartet) [Mass Market Paperback]

Jennifer Fallon (Author)

Book Description

Series: The Tide Lords Quartet | Publication Date: June 2, 2009

When a routine hanging goes wrong and a murderer somehow survives the noose, the man announces he is an immortal. And not just any immortal, but Cayal, the Immortal Prince, hero of legend, thought to be only a fictional character. To most he is a figure out of the Tide Lord Tarot, the only record left on Amyrantha of the mythical beings whom fable tells created the race of half-human, half-animal Crasii, a race of slaves.

Arkady Desean is an expert on the legends of the Tide Lords so at the request of the King's Spymaster, she is sent to interrogate this would-be immortal, hoping to prove he is a spy, or at the very least, a madman.

Though she is set the task of proving Cayal a liar, Arkady finds herself believing him, against her own good sense. And as she begins to truly believe in the Tide Lords, her own web of lies begins to unravel...

Editorial Reviews

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"Fallon begins her latest epic asking the question of how an immortal, tired of immortality, might find his way to death? With her vivid style and snappy dialogue, Fallon embarks on a rollercoaster ride of mortal and immortal machinations, as the ruthless and immoral Tide Lords emerge from a thousand years of hiding into a world where everyone has attributed the stories of their existence to myth. Everyone, that is, but the mysterious and secretive Cabal, who watch and wait in the shadows, searching for a way to protect humanity from the Tide Lords’ return."-- Nexus on The Immortal Prince

 

"Well crafted entertainment."--Kirkus on Harshini

 

"Readers with a taste for detail and complicated plots will enjoy this story."--VOYA on Wolfblade

 

"Fallon sets the stage for another lively fantasy saga full of intriguing characters, smart dialogue and twisty plotting."--Publishers Weekly on Wolfblade

 

“A warm and intriguing book with all-too-human characters who draw you in more deeply with each page.”--L.E. Modesitt, Jr. on Medalon

"A well-executed fantasy with complex characters and entertaining style."--Kirkus Reviews on Treason Keep

"The battles are fierce, the losses heartrending in Fallon's beautifully created world, whose disparate inhabitants are once again completely convincing, making Harshini a chilling, thrilling conclusion to the trilogy."--Booklist on Harshini

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

About the Author

Jennifer Fallon is the award-winning author of The Hythrun Chronicles, and one of Australia's bestselling fantasy authors. She lives in Australia.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: Tor Fantasy; First Edition edition (June 2, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0765356074
• ISBN-13: 978-0765356079
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #105,618 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jennifer Fallon was born in Melbourne, Australia, and lived in there until she was 11 when her father, a senior public servant, was transferred to the national capital, Canberra. She lived in and around Canberra for about 8 years and went to school at Catholic Girls High School (now Mercy College) in Braddon. She is the ninth child in a family of 13 girls.
The author lived in the Northern Territory from 1980 to 2010.
Jennifer has two daughters and a son. She has had over 50 foster children and friends refer to her home as "the ashram" due to the large number of strays people that still inhabit her house at irregular intervals.
Jennifer has worked as a youth worker, a store detective, shop assistant, an advertising sales rep and executive secretary, among other things. She has managed 2 hire car companies, an ISP, a video shop, been a state manager for an international cosmetics company and worked as a project manager for Territory Health Services. Jennifer is an accredited workplace trainer and has a Masters of Arts in Research and also the regular movie reviewer for ABC Radio in regional Western Australia.
In 1995, after her late husband famously advised her to 'quit writing and be a better housewife, because you're never going to get published', Jennifer decided to either get published by the year 2000 or give up writing and get a real job. Significantly, being a better housewife did not factor into her plans.
Her first series, The Demon Child Trilogy, was released in August 2000 in Australia and hit the bestseller list the first week it was released and was shortlisted for the 2000 Aurealis Awards as the best Fantasy of 2000.
She has since been shortlisted for another Aurealis, the David Gemmell Legends of Fantasy award and the Romantic Times Best Fantasy award.
Her books are released all over the world and translated into a number of different languages.
Jennifer now lives in New Zealand where she writes full time and runs up the Reynox International Writers Centre.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Start, July 18, 2009

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Heather Myst (Columbus, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Immortal Prince (The Tide Lords Quartet) (Mass Market Paperback)

Jennifer Fallon has been rather hit and miss with me. I first read her Second Sons trilogy and to this day I still think it is one of the best trilogies that I have ever purchased. Because I liked The Lion of Senet so much I gobbled up her six Hythrun Chronicles books. I didn't enjoy that series nearly as much as Second Sons so I was hesitant to pick up the Immortal Prince right away. Well I am very glad that I took the chance. The plot is very good and without giving too much away I like the fact that your not sure if the main character is a good guy or not. Fallon does a great job of mixing action and politics with a romantic twist. I can't wait for the next Tide Lords book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars promising start, bitterly disappointing conclusion, June 28, 2011

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Bently Frothingham - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Immortal Prince (The Tide Lords Quartet) (Mass Market Paperback)

While this series has a delightful and intriguing premise, that of the interactions of a group of magic wielding immortals with the mortal realm they inhabit, the execution leaves a lot to be desired. This, the first novel in a 4 book series, is by far the best, introducing characters, and setting the stage for the conflicts, both political and personal, to come. It's reasonably well written, nicely paced, and full of interesting characters. It makes you want to buy the next book.

Don't.

In fact, don't buy this one.

The series goes downhill fast. Characters become wooden, the same scenes are replayed time and time again. Do we really need a recap of the previous chapter at the beginning of the next one? By the time the third book rolls around, plot devices are becoming fantastical to the point of absurdity, and obvious solutions are ignored.

The last novel is abysmal. Fallon's prose has become hackneyed, characters repeat the same lines at infinitum, plot devices and "coincidences" become fully unbelievable, and the resolution is a let down of epic proportions.

So while you may enjoy the first book, you might allow yourself to get hooked, resulting in a waste of forty dollars, or however much you spend on all four books.

So do yourself a favour, and skip this series. Her other books are much better, and there are many other authors out there that you will enjoy more.

4.0 out of 5 stars Original, but a little slow to start, March 29, 2011

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M. Swierczek "keeper_of_the_wolf" (Pottstown, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Immortal Prince (The Tide Lords Quartet) (Mass Market Paperback)

I enjoy fantasy stories but I'm very tired of "A ragtag group of misfits must band together and get the magic doohickey before the big evil character does something really bad." This book does not follow that template.

The Tide Lords are a group of immortals that wield incredible power when the magical tide is high, and none aside from immortality when the tide is out. The tide of magic has been out for a thousand years, and most people regard the Tide Lords as myths.

The book starts with the Immortal Prince, the most famous of the Tide Lords, attempting suicide. The local nobility fear he might be an agent of a neighboring kingdom sent to cause unrest or political embarrassment, and the story progresses from there.

The characters are memorable, the setting is unique, I really enjoyed it. But things moved a little more slowly for the first two hundred pages than I would like. I know the writer has to gracefully fill in the back-story and flesh out the characters before all hell breaks loose, but I wish it had been done more quickly.