Shadowleague 01 - The Heart of Myrial

✍ Scribed by Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress);Furey, Maggie

• Book ID: 100566059
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 369 KB
• Series: Shadowleague 1
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York

✦ Synopsis

Epub reformatted

This fast-moving
adventure opens Maggie Furey's second fantasy sequence, "The
Shadowleague"; her first was the "Artefacts of Power" tetralogy. The Heart of Myrial
is set in a particularly artificial-seeming fantasyland, which proves
to be not a world but a technomagical construct, divided into isolated
regions by sorcerous barriers of force. Thanks to the machinations of a
bad guy who may have good motives, these "curtain walls" are now
failing--the first symptoms being clashes between the enclaves'
different environments, leading to prolonged descriptions of truly lousy
weather. In theory the barriers are guarded by and can be penetrated
only by Loremasters of the Shadowleague, a secret inner circle of
representatives from this patchwork world's various species: humans,
dragons, centaurs, wind-sprites, insectile aliens, and more. In practice
the Shadowleague is almost impotent.

Against this complex
background, various characters struggle across the landscape through
terrible weather. A woman Loremaster and her irrepressibly feisty
firedrake companion play leading parts in the large cast (many of whom
suffer death or worse). After tortuous regroupings and plot twists
centered on a particular city that houses a key magical shrine, the book
concludes with a gory invasion of nasties through the holed curtain
wall. It reads well enough, and of course there's more to come. --

✦ Subjects

Fantasy fiction