A Blight of Mages

Name: A Blight of Mages
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Karen Miller
ISBN: 9781611138115

Author: Karen Miller

Series: Kingmaker, Kingbreaker

Narrator: Eileen Stevens

Unabridged: 25 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 08/04/2011

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Epic

Synopsis

Hundreds of years before the great Mage War, a land lies, unknowing, on the edge of catastrophe. . .

Barl is young and impulsive, but she has a power within that calls to her. In her city, however, only those of noble blood and with the right connections learn the ways of the arcane. Barl is desperate to learn-but her eagerness to use her power leads her astray and she is banned from ever learning the mystic arts.

Morgan holds the key to her education. A member of the Council of Mages, he lives to maintain the status quo, preserve the mage bloodlines, and pursue his scholarly experiments. But Barl's power intrigues him-in spite of her low status.

Together, he realizes they can create extraordinary new incantations. Morgan's ambition and Barl's power make a potent combination. What she does not see is the darkness in him that won't be denied.

A Blight of Mages is the new novel set in the world of Karen Miller's bestselling debut The Innocent Mage.

About Karen Miller

Karen Miller is the author of the bestselling fantasy duology Kingmaker, Kingbreaker, the Godspeaker Trilogy, and the bestselling tie-in novels Stargate SG-1: Alliances and Stargate SG-1: Do No Harm. Writing as K. E. Mills, she is the author of the Rogue Agent series.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on June 08, 2018

I read this (the prequel) before any of the other books in the series, and I must say it is by far the best one. There were a lot of problems with The Innocent Mage and even more so with The Awakened Mage though here Karen Miller gets the tone just right. I would go as far to say that this works perf......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on June 19, 2012

First and foremost, I must say this: While this book may technically be a prequel to the series Kingmaker / Kingbreaker, for the love of all that is holy, at least read The Innocent Mage and The Awakened Mage before reading A Blight of Mages. I’ve noticed an alarming number of reviews that give the......more

Goodreads review by Erika on June 27, 2013

It took me almost three months to finish the "Lur Saga" as I'm calling A Blight of Mages, The Innocent Mage, The Awaken Mage, The Prodigal Mage, and the Reluctant Mage. I read them backwards, starting with the Kingmaker, Kingbreaker books and ending it with A Blight of Mages. I recommend for anyone......more

Goodreads review by Shira on March 07, 2012

This book started off lulling me into a false sense of comfort- I thought I'd picked up a pulp fantasy novel, an easy read where I know the cookie cutter plot and the joy is really in getting to know the new characters and how this world works. About halfway through this book I realized that they wo......more

Goodreads review by Elaine on February 17, 2017

I enjoy Karen Miller - but I do understand some of the complaints about her work. She does have a tendency to replay the same conversation between 2 characters again and again like Morgan and his Father and Barl & her brother - I think she was trying to show us the character development ie. how Morg......more