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Title: Ithanalin's Restoration (Legends of Ethshar) by Lawrence Watt-Evans ISBN: 0-7653-4055-0 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Amusing, though it lacks a resolution....
Comment: This book is very well written and amusing, but there are parts of the story that are not resolved. The "murdering wizard" is still romping free, and Kilisha doesn't get anywhere with her "boyfriend." I mean, they should have kissed or declared each other's love, but there was almost nothing. IN the end of the book she just instantaniously thinks that she is "more than friends" with this guy. SO if there is a sequel, I would have given another star.
Rating: 4
Summary: Amusing magical romp
Comment: The eighth of Watt-Evans' Ethshar novels, Ithanalin's Restoration takes place concurrently with _The Spell of the Black Dagger_. No knowledge of any of the other books is needed to enjoy this tale, as the Ethshar novels take place at different times and most of them stand alone nicely. The events in Black Dagger occur in a different city and while they upset most of the peripheral characters in this book, not knowing all the details won't impact your enjoyment of this lighthearted fantasy.
Kilisha is a seventeen-year-old apprentice wizard to Ithanalin the Wise, an expert in animation spells. With just one more year to go in her apprenticeship, she is frustrated at how little wizardry she's been taught, and frets that she's in no condition to begin the next stage of her career, as a journeyman wizard. Her master is kind but distracted, often forgetting to teach her all the common knowledge behind each spell, and he's often busy producing spells for his paying customers. That often leaves Kilisha as little more than an in-home baby-sitter and servant for Ithanalin's wife Yara.
With her frustration and fear growing, Kilisha demands that her master start teaching her the spells his customers pay for, and this time he agrees. On an errand to collect the blood of a grey cat (wizardry often requires odd materials), she returns hours later to find Ithanalin frozen in place, and all the parlor furniture missing. She soon discovers that his animating spell went very wrong when he tripped, spilled the magical goo, and animated several pieces of furniture with his own essence. And the furniture ran out the door when it was opened by a persistant tax-collector.
Kilisha, armed with few practical spells and missing big chunks of background knowledge, finds herself the only one who can set things right. The senior wizards are preoccupied with mass murder of wizards in Ethshar of the Sands (these events covered in Black Dagger) and have no time for an apprentice with spells gone awry. She must find, collect, and bring back the escaping furniture and learn enough magic to prevent their wandering again. On top of that, some of Ithanalin's essence transferred to a spriggen, a magical pest attracted to wizardry; spriggens cannot be held by any locks or bonds. Then she must master a new spell to bring Ithanalin back to his normal self. And to do so, she must learn a new tack toward problem solving, as Kilisha is a feet-first woman in a look-before-you-leap profession.
This is a fun read with a satisfying ending, perfect for vacation and holiday amusement.
Rating: 4
Summary: Pleasant light fantasy
Comment: _Ithanalin's Restoration_ is Lawrence Watt-Evans's latest Ethshar novel. (Of late he has been alternating his more serious, and longer, Dragon novels with his generally light-hearted Ethshar fantasies.) The main character is Kilisha, the 17 year old apprentice to Master Wizard Ithanalin. One of Ithanalin's spells gets disrupted by a mischievous spriggan, with the unwitting help of a tax-collector, and Ithanalin's "essence" ends up distributed among various objects, including several pieces of furniture. The spooked tax-collector leaves the door open, and the furniture, having legs, escapes. It falls to Kilisha to track down the escaped furniture and to learn the spell that can restore the pieces of Ithanalin from the pieces of furniture to his inanimate body. Her job is made more complicated because the more senior wizards in the town are unable to help her, as they are concerned with a political crisis: a revolt in another town that may spread.
The story is quite fun, a fast and always enjoyable read, with plenty of clever sequences arising from the central situation and the use of limited wizardly magic (such as Kilisha's way of using a love spell to lure back an escaped rug). Also noteworthy is the basic decency and commonsense of the various characters in the book. This is, I think,a particular characteristic of most of Watt-Evans's work -- his characters are pretty normal people, for the most part, and basically act like decent ordinary people we know, with to be sure the occasional foible. To take just one example from this book, we are introduced to the city's overlord, after a scene setting him up to be a lazy fop (semi-evil overlord model 3B, or something). It turns out, though, that he's basically a nice guy, who maybe gets a bit tired of long meetings. I do like this aspect of LWE's stories -- which is present in most of them, though you do get some slightly more extreme characters in for example the Dragon books.
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Title: Night of Madness by Lawrence Watt-Evans ISBN: 0812577949 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Dragon Venom (Obsidian Chronicles, 5) by Lawrence Watt-Evans ISBN: 0765302799 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Dragon Society by Lawrence Watt-Evans ISBN: 0765340542 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Spell of the Black Dagger: A Legend of Ethshar (Legends of Ethshar) by Lawrence Watt-Evans ISBN: 1587153602 Publisher: Wildside Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Blood of a Dragon (Legends of Ethshar) by Lawrence Watt-Evans ISBN: 1587153572 Publisher: Wildside Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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