Owlknight [Import] [Paperback]

Mercedes Lackey (Author), Larry Dixon (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 326 pages
• Publisher: Gollancz; New Ed edition (January 11, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1857987411
• ISBN-13: 978-1857987416
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (79 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Mercedes Lackey is the acclaimed author of over fifty novels and many works of short fiction. In her "spare" time she is also a professional lyricist and a licensed wild bird rehabilitator. Mercedes lives in Oklahoma with her husband and frequent collaborator, artist Larry Dixon, and their flock of parrots.

Customer Reviews

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent addition to the Valdemar universe!, October 7, 1999

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Olaf Keith (Dortmund) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Owlknight (Darian's Tale, Vol. 3) (Hardcover)

Darian's third adventure is a pleasure to read. And I disagree strongly with some of the other reviewers below. The three novels in the DARIAN`S TALE sequence are not as tigtly plotted as some of the other books in Misty Lackey's Valdemar universe, but they offer a lot of insights into everyday life in a Valdemaran village, a hawkbrother vale and even a Northern clan village. There's is no big LET`S SAVE THE WORLD YET AGAIN conflict that carries these novels. These three books are carried only by the characters and their slow maturation and growth. If you read all three books in the DARIAN`S TALE sequence in a row, you will realize what I mean. In these books Misty Lackey and Larry Dixon haven chosen to do without royal polticis and court intrigues, and I am really greatful for that. Darian's slow maturation in the course of three novels from an unlikeable and totally irresponsible teenager in OWLFLIGHT to the responsible and caring adult in OWLKNIGHT is a pleasure to read. And Mercedes Lackey announced that a fourth book in this sequence is planned.

63 of 73 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lackey's work is tapering off, January 6, 2000

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An annoyed Lackey fan (Somewhere in Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Owlknight (Darian's Tale, Vol. 3) (Hardcover)

It seems I've always been a rather large Lackey fan, and I've reread the Arrows trilogy and the Last Herald-Mage trilogy...and the first book of the Mage Wars trilogy over and over again. But it seems recently, when Lackey has been co-writing with Dixon, that the work is of almost lesser quality.

Okay, enough with the eloquence. THIS IS driving me, to quote Talia, "rather noisily mad"! What happened to the classic scenes that were in earlier books? What Lackey fan hasn't sobbed and reread Kris' death scene in Arrow's Fall fifty million times, and gone back and read it again? (My page of that book is tearblotted, hot-chocolate stained, and spaghetti-sauce stained. It's pretty pathetic.) What happened to solid, INTERESTING characters like Elspeth and Tremaine and Vanyel and Stefen and Tylendel? All we get now is a hairbrained idiot named Darian who's taking on waaaaay too many responsiblities, and his errant lover Keisha. The only reason I really stuck with this Owl trilogy was that the character of Shandi fascinated me, and Anda wasn't that bad for a secondary character. But I have to say, this book was still better than half of the science-fiction/fantasy junk that is out there.

I agree with another reader with a review below mine--why can't we read a trilogy about King Valdemar (that was NOT cowritten by Larry Dixon)? Or, jump ahead a hundred years...see what happens to Valdemar? Or explore Rethwellan a little more? (Tarma and Kethry and Kerowyn are fabulous characters. Why can't we see more mercs? They dropped off the face of the earth after By The Sword!)

Ah well, this is getting long-winded. Just wanted to give my opinion.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of this series to date, December 6, 1999

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Alia Terlyn - See all my reviews

This review is from: Owlknight (Darian's Tale, Vol. 3) (Hardcover)

This book sets a good pace and holds interest throughout. It reveals more about the hertasi and blends a wildly different group of characters together in a way that makes it believable.