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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780812572353
ISBN: 0812572351
Label: Tor Fantasy
Manufacturer: Tor Fantasy
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 736
Publication Date: November 01, 2005
Publisher: Tor Fantasy
Release Date: October 27, 2005
Sales Rank: 335989
Studio: Tor Fantasy
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Kundala is Miina's world, created by that Goddess with the help of the dragons. But Miina is missing, and her people have been enslaved by the alien V'ornn. Now a savior has come, the Dar Sala-at, a messiah promised by prophecy yet unlike anyone's expectations: within the body of a beautiful young woman is the mind and spirit of a unique Kundalan female who is joined in mystical partnership with the mind and spirit of Annon Ashera, a V'ornn male, the last survivor of a noble family. Together the two adolescents have matured and merged into a new joint identity. Now their common destiny, and Kundala's, is in their own hands.
In Lustbader's richly imagined saga The Pearl, magic and science clash on an epic scale. As in the Midkemia novels of Raymond Feist, the juxtaposition shows that neither is inherently good or evil. It is the people using magic or science who give them meaning, and Lustbader has created people you will never forget:
Riane, the Dar-Sala-at; Eleana, the woman she loves twice over; Kurgan, the V'ornn usurper who raped Eleana and sired her child; Marethyn Stogggul, Kurgan's defiant sister, an artist who joins the Kundalan resistance; Marethyn's lover, chief trader Sornnn SaTrryn, who secretly helps the resistance as well; and the fabulous Krystren, the Sarakkon woman from the mysterious southern continent, who comes north on a secret mission and will change the lives of everyone she meets. All the while, the evil Sauromicians threaten the world as they seek to use banestones to bind a dragon.
With each new volume, The Pearl has bloomed and ramified like a gorgeous flowering vine. The Mistress of the Pearl is the best yet, and those who have read the previous books will find new sources of excitement and enlightenment, but this is also a great place to begin catching up with the series, as the Pearl shines ever brighter.
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Mistress of the Pearl (2004) is the third Fantasy novel in The Pearl series, following The Veil of a Thousand Tears. In the previous volume, Kurgan learned that Nith Batoxxx was possessed by the Archdaemon Pyphoros. Then he learned that a Gyrgon had tampered with Terrettt's brain and was certain that it was Nith Batoxxx. When Kurgan, Sornnn and Batoxxx/Pyphoros transitted to Za Hara-at, they found Riane waiting for them. In a battle where the daemon was attacked by everybody and everything, Nith ... Read More
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yes the book is hard to put down and is definitely better than the second installment. but is still a drag in places.
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1. unnecessary development of new situations/characters unrelated or marginally related to the central plot - especially the endless array of khaggun colonels, marshals, generals, their daughters etc (hard to keep track of who is who!), sarakkon and sauromagicians etc. in contrast the central plot/characters lack adequate development.
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Whoever said "getting there is half the fun" must have been an avid literary adventure fan. For Eric Van Lustbader's hefty science fiction/fantasy thriller, MISTRESS OF THE PEARL, the intuitive reader should be warned to ratchet up that old maxim to say that getting there provides nearly all the fun.
It's been a while since I've read anything by the justly acclaimed Van Lustbader, so I must confess straight up that the two previous volumes in his epic Pearl saga are not on my have-read shelf. ... Read More
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Many years ago, I read Van Lustbader's Dai-san trilogy and thought...this guy should stick to thrillers. He has a knack. But then his thrillers became stale and formulaic. He has re-invented himself as a writer with the Pearl series, of which, this is the third installment.
Kundala rivals Raymond E. Feist's Midkemia. It is a land of the usual fantasy novel with high-tech thrown in. It's a well-done blend. Characters are well-developed and the dialogue is, at times, highly entertaining....way beyond ... Read More
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Though they have pretty much conquered the planet Kundala after a century plus of resistance, the victorious aliens V'ornn remain in combat with the locals. The natives believe their Messiah, the "Dar Sala-at" will save them. Just the Kundalan belief that their legendary savior will help them overthrow the V'ornn invaders has lifted the spirits of the natives and helped them resist the intruders though how someone can join two spirits from opposite poles of the universe as the fabled champion will do seems ... Read More
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