The Heart of Myrial (Shadowleague)

by Maggie Furey

Book Overview

From the dazzling imagination of Maggie Furey comes an astonishing new epic of a wondrous world on the brink of collapse . . . and the daring trio who will risk the deadliest odds to save it. The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 055357938X
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Spectra
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 1.5" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

Can you possibly ask for anything better?

Of all the D and D books I've read, I've never taken a liking to anything really. No books were able to capture my attention, but oh dear lordy, Maggie Furey had me at hello. LoL, for real though, this book is a definite must for hard core Dungeon and dragon's type people, or those that just want something fantastical.

Can YOU handle it? Well can ya!

This is a highly satisfying that mixes many different pantheons from around the world. With pieces from her previous books as well as the books of other well known authors, this series is bound to be a hit. As it should be with the first book of any series this does start out at a relitively slow pace. However when hardship strikes, it is heartfelt by the read. For a book that can move you. Make you laugh, cry, and experience everything as if you where there then read this book.

A good start to the Shadowleague series.

This book draws upon a large cast of characters' view points to fill out its four hundred plus pages, making me wonder if some of them serve any greater purpose. But this is book one of three, so it remains to be seen. Even so, it builds very satisfactorily towards the next one, using Zavahl's escape from the sacrificial pyre as a closure. There was a bit of a black hole after the pacey Chapter One until Veldan and Kaz reappeared by Chapter Four. Whilst this left space to introduce the bulk of the other players it would have been more agreeable, for the sake of focus, to have brought them in and out briefly instead: after all, everything at that stage happens at much the same time. Nonetheless it all shoots along with good tie-ins between the characters, including details you think have been missed: Scall realising who Seriema's attacker is being a good example. I thought the prose style was better than most of the British fantasy stuff that I've read lately, though it is a little over extended in places, and a lot of the fancier words could have been replaced with plainer ones to better effect. (I'm not sure that `misanthropic' with respect to the donkey's character was really the best choice.) Neither J.R. R. Tolkien, Fritz Leiber, or C.J. Cherryh, for example, resort to such. Anyway, I'm keen to find out how Shree escapes from Blade's trans-dimensional black bag, and so on.

Excellent and intricate fantasty tale

Fast moving and very intricate tale, this book is somewhat slow at the beginning but as you become acquainted with the main characters you find that it is almost impossible to put down. Excellent characterizations and good plot detail. I highly recommend this book to any reader who enjoys Eddings.

Very interesting book

This starts off very well and it keeps your attention from the start and you find your self very much hoping that the charachters survive and are delivered some nasty suprises and shocking events that you find your self hoping didnot really happen or was all a big mistake. The wonderful list of charchters and the way that they all come together (even though not all of them are human) with the aid of telepathy, is a very nice idea. I cant wait for the next book!