Enchanter (Wayfarer Redemption, 2) - Hardcover

Douglass, Sara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312875827 ISBN 13: 9780312875824

Publisher: Tor Books, 2001

Synopsis

Having vanquished his foes, Axis heads off to the Icarri stronghold to claim his heritage and explore his relationship with his newfound father, StarDrifter, but as he learns to wield his new Enchanter powers, he once again encounters Ashure, the woman warrior, and runs afoul of his scheming half-brother, Borneheld. 75,000 first printing.

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Review:

There is always a worrying extent to which first fantasy novels, and especially first fantasy trilogies, are liable to consist of the same old ideas more or less meaningfully arranged. Sarah Douglass, in her first novel Battleaxe and this sequel, has not entirely escaped these charges, yet manages largely to evade them by a colourful pictorial imagination and moral underpinning that makes much of what she deals with new and fresh. Caught up in prophesies, Axis struggles politically with his human half-brother, King Borneheld, and magically with his other half-brother, the ambitious chimera Gorgrael, whose legions of monsters squirm South through the snow. He has not only to do the right thing, but do it in the right way, or, says prophecy, all will crumble in his grasp. Torn between his love for two magically gifted women, and between the urge to do what is right and the need to comply with destiny, Axis is an interesting flawed hero, whose dilemmas matter both as those of a convincing character and as those implicit in the sort of book this is. Douglass shows real promise, and even these first books deliver the goods. --Roz Kaveney

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Praise for previous books in The Axis Trilogy:

‘The twists, revelations and foreshadowings keep you turning pages’
SFX

‘Absorbing. Those who like their battles bloody and realistic will get their desire, but here also are moments of great tenderness’
Starburst

About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0312875827
• ISBN 13: 9780312875824
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 511