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Royal Exile: Book One of The Valisar Trilogy [Mass Market Paperback]

Fiona McIntosh (Author)
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December 30, 2008 Valisar (Book 1)

From out of the East they came riding like a merciless plague—destroying kingdom after kingdom and the sovereigns who had previously mocked the warlord Loethar and his barbarian horde. Now only one land remains unconquered—the largest, richest, and most powerful realm of the Denova Set . . .

Penraven.

The Valisar royals of Penraven face certain death, for the savage tyrant Loethar covets what they alone possess: the fabled Valisar Enchantment, an irresistible power to coerce, which will belong to Loethar once every Valisar has been slain. But the last hope of the besieged kingdom is being sent in secret from his doomed home, in the company of a single warrior. The future of Penraven now rests on the shoulders of the young Crown Prince Leonel who, though untried and untested in the ways of war, must survive brutality and treachery in order to claim the Valisar throne.


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Praise for Fiona McIntosh:‘It’s a “just one more chapter” sort of book. Don’t start reading in the evening if you have to get up early the next morning’Robin Hobb --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

About the Author

Born in 1960 and raised in southern England, Fiona McIntosh spent an early childhood in the gold-mining camp of Bibiani in Ghana, where her father was working. She studied in Brighton before starting a career in PR and marketing in London. She made Australia her home in 1980, continuing in a travel-marketing career with an ad agency, a tourism authority, and an international airline. Fiona married her magazine-publisher husband, Ian, and they now live in Adelaide with their teenage twin sons, Will and Jack.


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  • Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Harper Voyager (December 30, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0061582689
  • ISBN-13: 978-0061582684
  • Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.7 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #266,978 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Not engaging April 21, 2009
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Well, previous reviewers seem to have enjoyed this a lot more then I did. I really enjoyed some of the author's previous work, she writes fantasy with a real dark edge and when she pulls it off it really works. Here it didn't come together for me, I found the pace a little slow and lacking the inventiveness previously displayed by the author. While the dark violent side is there, it just didn't engage me sufficiently to keep turning the pages. This is the first part of a trilogy and I'm sorry to say I shall probably not bother with the next two.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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After enjoying her Quickening series I was hoping and expecting another nice fantasy series. Instead I could barely wade through this book. I read a lot of fantasy and I can't recall another book where the characters simply are so unrealistic and where it just stands out. Maybe it's the dialog. At some level the characters have to have some relationship to what real people would do - whether they are heroes, cowards, villains, kings or servants. However tenuous. Not in this book. I want to believe in the Loethar character but for all I know the next page he'll pop out in a Groucho Marx imitation.
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excellent fantasy January 3, 2009
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Using strategy that makes no military sense, tribal warlord Loethar and his deadly barbaric horde easily conquered Dregon and Voragan while Cremond capitulated without a fight. He now invades the final land in the Denova Set, the Kingdom of Penraven with once again little successful opposition. The flesh eaters easily slice their way to conquest defeating everyone who dares to face them. King Brennus is frustrated and worried, but will soon be dead as Loethar fearing nothing has every member of the renowned ruling family the Valisars killed although the king and queen go willingly so that one member of the royals can escape and insure Loethar fails to have access to their power.

The Champion of the Cohort Gavriel De Vis escorts away from the castle the first born son of the Valisars, young Prince Leo, whose special skills unlike that of his father and forefathers back eight generations has failed to surface. He seeks allies, but few sign up to join his noble but seemingly helpless cause. Not only has his talent remains dormant, but Loethar is too powerful and malevolent to fight against anymore; evil has won as the side of good allowed complacency and egotism to leave them unprepared leading them to defeat.

The first book of the Valisar trilogy occurs in the same world as the Percheron Saga, but is a different age and place. Readers will relish the return to Fiona McIntosh's fantasy realm as the opening act proves to be a worthy successor. The story line is fast-paced from the onset as the kings wonder how they could fall so fast to the blitzkrieg of Loethar. Leo is a wonderful wannabe hero, but his coming of age has a long way to go (two more novels) while Loethar is a fascinating in a macabre way villain who we meet early on after he has drank blood and looks forward to sharing a drink with King Ormond of Barronel. Ms. McIntosh opens her latest fantasy with a terrific thriller.

Harriet Klausner
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Father Briar, Master Freath, Master Kirin, King Brennus, Dara Negev, Kilt Faris, King Leonel, Master De Vis, Stone of Truth, Master Clovis, Queen Iselda, Legate De Vis, Gavriel De Vis, Tomas Dole, King of Penraven, Regor De Vis, Princess Valya, Valisar Kings, Emperor Loethar, Likurian Steppes, Denova Set, King Cormoron, General Marth, Prince Leonel, King Ormond
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