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Storm Rising (Valdemar: Mage Storms Book 2) by [Mercedes Lackey]

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Mercedes Lackey

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Book 2 of 3: Valdemar: Mage Storms

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In Storm Rising, mysterious mage-storms are wreaking havoc on Valdemar, Karse, and all the kingdoms of the West, plaguing these lands not only with disastrous earthquakes, monsoons, and ice storms, but also with venomous magical constructs - terrifying creatures out of nightmare. Both Valdemar's Heralds and Karse's Sunpriests struggle to marshal their combined magical resources to protect their realms from these devastating, spell-fueled onslaughts. But as the situation becomes bleaker and bleaker, the still fragile alliance between these long-hostile lands begins to fray. And unless Valdemar and Karse can locate and destroy the creator of the storms, they may see their entire world demolished in a final magical holocaust.

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DAW
Publication date

July 29, 2009
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Lackey's latest continues the old-fashioned, simple-is-as-simple-does tradition that has made her numerous series set in and around the kingdom of Valdemar so accessible to so many readers. Her bloated prose is balanced by two-dimensional caricatures such as those of Karal, the diplomat who "knows he is too young," An'desha ("Do I want to be?alone?") and Firesong, who is prone to neurotic ramblings. Expectedly, Firesong's ills are not of his own making; he and the good characters here are uniformly good, lacking any shades of gray to give them depth. Even Grand Duke Tremane, who ordered murders in this novel's prequel, Storm Warning, has a heart of gold. Above all, this volume suffers from lack of a proper villain. Perhaps the windup to this promised trilogy will be more engaging; meanwhile, this middle volume fits Karal's description of a council meeting: "very little accomplished and nothing really settled."
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As the violent mage storms ravage the land of Valdemar and its neighbors, warring factions struggle to overcome personal and political prejudices to combat a greater enemy. Lackey (The White Gryphon, LJ 3/15/95) continues to expand upon her world's rich history and cultures while probing the sometimes petty, sometimes noble motivations that impel her characters toward their destinies. Fans of the series will demand this title.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B002JA02JS
Publisher ‏ : ‎ DAW (July 29, 2009)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 29, 2009
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 8388 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 412 pages
Lending ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #72,282 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #137 in Classic Fantasy eBooks
- #626 in Historical Fantasy (Kindle Store)
- #997 in Historical Fantasy (Books)

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Mercedes Lackey is the acclaimed author of over fifty novels and many works of short fiction. In her "spare" time she is also a professional lyricist and a licensed wild bird rehabilitator. Mercedes lives in Oklahoma with her husband and frequent collaborator, artist Larry Dixon, and their flock of parrots.

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BeckyWTop Contributor: Coloring

Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2019

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I have read most of Lackey's Valdemar series and love them but this trilogy is giving me problems. The first book in this trilogy was ok but not a page turner. This book....is just plain boring. It seems that Lackey is very obsessed with same sex relationships. That is about all this book is about. It's a RELATIONSHIP book and NOT up to the wonderment of Valdemar. I am really struggling to get through it and will finish it since it is the middle book in the trilogy. I should have paid more attention to the lower reviews on this whole trilogy before I started it. I probably should have passed. I'm over half way thru and so far....nothing much has happened. It's more like a cheap romance novel and I really hate the page after page of either An'desha or Firesong "thinking the himself" about the relation ship. Talk about a nap maker! Actually Karal does alot of the "thinking to himself" too. Some may not be so bad but page after page after page of it....NOPE! I started skipping most of those pages. So....If you are looking and hoping for a page turner Valdemar book....you'd better look elsewhere.

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Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2021

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Mercedes Lackey never disappoints, I can read her books over and over again. Ms. Lackey has given us the Kingdom of Valdemar, with its heralds and companions and mind magic it is a wondrous thing. This trilogy gives us a better understanding of the neighboring kingdoms of Karse, Hardorn, and the evil Eastern Empire. It also brings "real" magic back to Valdemar for the first time in centuries. IN addition this book brings together the magical storms building in the characters' physical world with the storms building in their personal lives and interactions, and the resolutions of several personal problems are key to developing a solution to the larger problem facing everyone.

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Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2015

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This is one of my favorite authors and love rereading over and over. The only reason I lowered stars is that the fist and third were available with audio at a reasonable price but when went in to purchase Storm Rising only available at very high Audible price. Very disappointed because kindle text to speech is awful, and other 2 in series are available with audible add-on as option. It forces you to put up with an text to speech, which is far behind in quality, or pay very high audible price. ( Realize it is a computer voice but there is no quality control for pronounciation. It is especially noticeable in fantasy/science fiction with odd names, and a lot of conversations. And STOP reading a colon as a word!!! It was so distracting after I figured out "colon" wasn't' a character LOL) It is the only trilogy I have purchased that does not offer all the volumes with audible as add-on, when available. I love these books and am very disappointed in this seemingly obvious ploy.

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Proofreaders anyone?

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2015

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I had this in hard cover already but I enjoy using my Kindle/phone/iPad interchangeably so much I actually purchased Storm Rising again for Kindle. I enjoyed the.book but was VERY disappointed with the Kindle version. First, I would greatly appreciate a discount for purchasing a Kindle version of a hard cover book previously purchased from Amazon, but realize it was my grudging decision to do so. Second, I was doubly disappointed that the Kindle version was so full of misspellings and faulty punctuation, some of which were so bad as to render a whole sentence meaningless. Does anyone understand the concept of proofreading prior to publication?! By the way, the same comments apply to both the Mage Storms and Mage Winds trilogies. (I know, I was dumb enough to keep buying them, but I really do love my Kindle)

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Geriatric Suthriner

Okay but not compelling

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2015

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Some authors resonate, some don't -- I'll admit getting sucked into the trilogy as an audio book for my 150-mile a day commute and there are moments that grab at me, there are also long passages that put me to sleep, at which point I turn it off and give it a rest so I don't doze off in traffic. The characters are generally interesting in an odd, outside society sort of way, but the long passages of 3rd-persona "documentary" descriptions or the long passages of introspection by one arrogant malcontent or another erodes what could otherwise be a pleasant if pedestrian story... it's one of those accounts that has moments of action or dialogue that are momentary interest, but after three of these and previous book by this author, I usually never get to the "so what..." question, nor really care which of the characters comes out on top...

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2017

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A very good middle book, Usually middle books are necessary evils, to get you from the problem to the conclusion. But I liked all the interplay of the situations,. and how people are reacting. I read this on kindle and there were some typos that I have not found in the book versions, so I suspect that some of this was conversion issues. (For reasons I can not fathom, I had bought volume 1 and volume 3 as hardbacks, and could not find anywhere in the house volume 2, I may not have bought it, So I just bought volume 2 on kindle so I did not have to stop right before Christmas and find it at a store.)

1/3 review of previous books

Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2021

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I had to make myself continue to read it. About 1/3 of the stormy ox reviewing previous books, 1/3 maundering philosophy 1/3 actual story. The story was good the rest could have been left out or greatly minimized. Mostly a waste of my time.

An enjoyable continuation of a fine series

Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2017

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The second book in Mercedes Lackey's Mage Storms trilogy, this book juxtaposes the magical storms building in the characters' physical world with the storms building in their personal lives and interactions, and the resolutions of several personal problems are key to developing a solution to the larger problem facing everyone. I found it an excellent read, although the editing of the e-book version left something to be desired as italics designating a character's inner thoughts don't always leave off or resume when they should.

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JIM1957

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 24, 2016

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Not up to her usual i thought

Ms V Tor

Storm Rising

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 14, 2013

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The book was in very good condition as described, I am very happy with the purchase and it is a keeper.

Doni Richard

One of the best epic of Mercedes Lackey

Reviewed in Italy on February 9, 2013

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In the trilogy of the Storms, finally all the threads which started with the Valdemar trilogy (and from the past even from the Black Gryphon Trilogy and the books of Tarma and Kethry) come to the end. It is quite impossible personally to evaluate the three books one by one,as in truth they are a single book divided. Wthout going into spoiler , the books shows what's happen to the whole world of Valdemar (and Hardorn) too, when something much more dangerous than a black adept can cause havoc to the whole world Because the storms arrives directly from the past... And only working all together all the people of the various kingdom and people even of the Shin'a In and even some artifecres shall eb able to face this trouble What can people do when this event can destroy the whole world? These books have the answer, but logially, with step by step solution of people working together and stumbling and making mistakes, but nonetheless doing their best as human (or Gryphon, or Hertasi )

pat westergard

Excellent

Reviewed in Canada on January 21, 2019

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Love Lackey. Hard work pays off. She worked hard at developing Valdemar. This series following the Mage Winds series , is so worth the read.

Gem

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on September 9, 2015

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Great book. Good price.

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