Wednesday, August 23, 2006

BART Book: Luck in the Shadows

Luck in the Shadows
Lynn Flewelling, 1996
first in the Nightrunner series
Lynn's Author Page at sff.net

Who can resist the story of an orphaned boy rescued from certain death by a mysterious stranger with an even more mysterious past who takes him on as an apprentice and teaches him the ways of his mysterious occupation? Add in a kindly old wizard, a good-natured sidekick with a loving family and danger around every corner and you get a book for the ages. Anyone remember The Belgariad? Well, Luck sure reminded me of it an awful lot. And that has to be one of my favorite stories of all time.

Alec of Kerry, the son of a woodsman, found himself in a bit of difficulty when he was captured while minding his own business. When a passing bard was also thrown into his dungeon cell, his life was changed forever. Seregil, a bard sometimes, a lord sometimes and a lot of other things some other times, recognized something in Alec and took him along when he escaped from the far northern castle. When they ran afoul of angry marines and then later some really really bad black magic, Alec returned the favor and saved Seregil's life taking him home to be healed by the wizard Nysander.

I enjoyed this book throughly and can't wait to get the other two books in the series to see what other trouble these two boys can get themselves and their friends into.

Favorite part: when Nysander performs the innate nature spell on Alec
Least favorite part: that necromancers never die, you have to divide up the body parts so they don't recombine, ugh

Next BART Book: The Art of Detection by Laurie R. King
Previous BART Book: Shark Island by Joan Druett

Books on the Shelf:

Virgin Earth, Philippa Gregory
Out of Circulation, Jo Dereske
Books on Hold:
Dark Tort, Diane Mott Davidson
Final Notice, Jo Dereske
Miss Zukas and the Raven's Dance, Jo Dereske
Stalking Darkness, Lynn Flewelling
Traitor's Moon, Lynn Flewelling
Proven Guilty, Jim Butcher

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