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Magelord
- The Spellmonger Series, Book 3
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 31 hrs and 39 mins
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Summary
Minalan gets medieval!
When you defeat the invading goblin army, get knighted on the field of battle, gifted with lands and gold, usually your happily-ever-after is...happy. But now that Minalan the Spellmonger has been ennobled and enfiefed, Sire Minalan has a task cut out for him that makes defeating goblins seem like child’s play: Moving his very pregnant bride and a few thousand refugees from Boval Vale into the remote, sparsely peopled Domain of Sevendor. But when he arrives, he finds the land withered from neglect, filled with superstition and suspicion, a third of his domain has been conquered before he got there, and the castle he now owns hasn’t been maintained in decades.
As Minalan manages the challenges of being a noble, being a mage knight, being the lord of the manor, being a landlord, and fending off a belligerent (and well-armed) neighbor, he also has to learn how to be a husband, father, and a leader of a people.
Then the fateful night his son is finally born, Minalan learns the nature of fear, as he, his family, and his very realm are forever changed when the spell he casts to save their lives transforms the land. Minalan, his apprentices Sir Tyndal and Sir Rondal, his dour but efficacious castellan Sir Cei, and his moody wife struggle through the winter and defend their domain in his attempt to prove what a Magelord can do for his people when he puts magic in their service.
But in the distance, the threat of a renewed war with the goblins looms as they approach the Riverlands, the Gilmoran baronies that are the heart of the Duchies. The contentious High Magi convene to constitute the new Arcane Orders, while the fanatical Royal Censorate of Magic plots defeat them and the thousands of hedgemagi, witches and footwizards they terrorized now see Minalan as a hero. The sinister Family schemes to promote Duke Rard II to become King Rard I of the newly united Kingdom of Castalshar - over a pile of bodies, if necessary. And suddenly, out of the sky fall dragons in the service of the Dead God to strike at the strength of the nascent Kingdom.
How can Sire Minalan fight goblins, plots, poverty and politics, all from his remote and rustic vale while keeping the peasants in line and the Warbird of West Fleria at bay? With wit, courage, determination, and a healthy dose of magic. And when the new King tasks him to find a way to slay a dragon, an ordinary knight might shy away from the quest. For Sire Minalan, it’s just another day on the job as a magelord!
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- Jay The Reviewer
- 28-06-20
Excellent part of the series
I listened to the first story and had some reservations about the time it took for the book to get into. The swing of things. This one, however contains many interesting sub stories to carry you through to the excellent ending.
The narration was better then the previous and the story was too. This has definately got me excited to listen to the next book in the series
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- Pabs.
- 03-05-19
good 3rd installment in the series.
loving the attachment we(as an audience) are getting with his lands and crew. great 3rd installment n the aeries, can't wait to read the next one.
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- mr A P GOSNEY
- 07-08-18
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well read, I found the series easy to listen to so far. Great story & characters
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- DPW
- 02-07-19
excellent continuation of a great story.
really enjoying the third book. it does slow down sometimes with the author going into too much detail or off I. unrelated tangents, but this doesn't upset the story.
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- laurence
- 21-08-18
Fine addition to a slightly mediocre series
So I liked this story a lot, it's a nice intriguing look at the nuts and bolts of running a fief in this world with some good world building. I also liked that the creepy perviness that Min has is played down a lot more. What makes this mediocre is that the author can't seem to keep his story straight, numerous examples of him contradicting plot points that he establishes in the previous books (and even in previous chapters!) this is so bad it sometimes feels like it's been written by more than one person. It makes following things hard and bring you out of the story quite jarringly. That said the action sequences are very good and the characters colourful and getting back to good arcs of progression, so I'm looking forward to the next installment.
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- Dave
- 24-06-18
good world building
really enjoyed the world building in addition to the main story. superb performance form john Lee too.
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- Minalan
- 26-08-19
what a book! absolutely incredible...
10/10. what an amazing book. this book goes full circle and I adored every second. Read this !!!
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- Anonymous User
- 15-12-21
decent magical tale..
Better than previous books, but still fine times where I just have to tune out as the author tries to describe people and places in such detail that it's a 10-20 min of just talking about a scene instead of telling the story, with lesser of these I can only recommend the story though, good telling, good turns and twists with decent magic, which I always tend to find can be sparring in most stories, but here it's found in plenty and in wide variety. Overall a good 4/5!
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- Mr Matthew J Perry
- 19-05-20
excellent story telling
Although a slow start once you are into the story it is an excellent story and great expressive reading.
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- Mr Andrew N Hindle
- 02-02-19
An excellent book
A well told book, which holds your interest with each chapter. As soon as you finish one chapter you wanted to listen to the next one.
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