Into the Broken Lands
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- €16.99
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- €16.99
Publisher Description
Bestselling author Tanya Huff presents an all-new world of action and intrigue, where survivors of a disastrous war have outlawed all magic in favor of shared knowledge—but all is not as it seems.
Ryan Marsan was never meant to be Heir to the Lord Protector. But his brothers are dead, and for the first time in decades, the Black Flame that protects his people is flickering. Ryan must retrieve its fuel from the mage-destroyed wastes of the Broken Lands, leading Scholars with more knowledge, warriors with more experience, and an ambitious cousin with the morals of a cat.
His authority rests with the weapon. The only mage-crafted artifice to survive the wars, it responds to the command of the heirs of Marsanport. While its capabilities are mysterious, its brutality is legend.
Except Ryan soon discovers some mysteries are really omissions. The weapon is more than it appears and the Broken Lands will reveal secrets, lies, and the horrors of twisted sorcery. Even his companions hide more than he knows.
With Marsanport’s future at risk, Ryan can only race forward, hoping to survive, keep his friends alive—and see truth where it is, not where he wants it to be…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Huff (the Peacekeeper series) opens this lackluster epic fantasy generations after the devastating Mage Wars, waged to determine which of six supernaturally gifted mages was most powerful, wreaked havoc on its setting. In the wake of this catastrophe, the legendary leader Capt. Marsan led her people out of the dangerous Broken Lands, and now to preserve their culture, each successive Heir of Marsan must return to gather fuel for the guttering Black Flame which maintains their power. Young, insecure Ryan, the putative heir of Marsan, is the next to undertake this mission, determined to prove himself. In doing so, Ryan faces off against the real power in Marsan, a caste of scholars embodied by his hard-headed cousin Lyelee, his possible rival as Heir. A parallel plotline flashes back to an earlier heir, Garrett, undertaking the same quest. Both heroes are aided by a monstrous enigmatic mage-created "weapon" known as Nonee as they meet one misfortune after another in the Broken Lands, along the way learning the futility of arrogance and the value of honest communication. Unfortunately, the two threads never fully coalesce and the trek through the Broken Lands feels both familiar and exhausting. This is one to skip.
