When Darkness Falls
Written by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory
Narrated by Susan Ericksen
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
But not all hope is lost. The Light's young mages, tempered by war, grow ever more powerful. High Mage Cilarnen learns an ancient secret that can make him, for a brief, white-hot time, the greatest mage in the world-unless it kills him.
Jermayan, the first Elf-Mage in centuries, has linked with the dragon Ancaladar and rediscovered the swift-as-thought powers of Elven magic, which can reshape mountains and summon lightning from clear skies.
Knight-Mage Kellen has molded his troops and the Unicorn Knights into a deadly fighting force. Soon the Elven King and his Commanders put Kellen's magical gifts to their greatest test, in the final battle between the Elves, the humans, and the Demons.
Mercedes Lackey
Mercedes Lackey is the author of the bestselling Valdemar series, the Obsidian Trilogy (The Outstretched Shadow, To Light a Candle, and When Darkness Falls), the Enduring Flame trilogy (The Phoenix Unchained, The Phoenix Engendered, and The Phoenix Transformed), and The Phoenix Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms. She has written many other books, including Trio of Sorcery, Phoenix and Ashes, Sacred Ground, The Firebird, The Fairy Godmother, and Alta. Lackey is the co-author, with Andre Norton, of the Halfblood Chronicles, including Elvenborn. Mercedes Lackey was born in Chicago and graduated from Purdue University. She has worked as an artist’s model, a computer programmer, and for American Airlines, and has written lyrics and recorded more than fifty songs. She lives in Oklahoma.
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Reviews for When Darkness Falls
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Grande, epic fantasy. Wizards and elves and unicorns. Good vs bad. What's not to love.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A thoroughly fun and enjoyable trilogy. I enjoyed every minute of all three books!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very good
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved the story. I hope there will be more books set in the world. I knew there had to be a Happy Ending for Idala and her Elven Knight. Loved the way she got there. I will be re-reading the trilogy in between books like The Last Victim of Henry VIII, The Earl of Surry (non-fiction)
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I really enjoyed this trilogy and have been lending it out to friends.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When it comes to the story this was great. Everything that needed to happen, happened. I was pleased by most of the characters, and those not pleasing were at least tolerable. Kellen is for the most part past adolescent whining and Cilarnen, surprisingly gets much more time in this novel. Romance between the appropriately paired couples is for the most part very subdued, as well as the amount of Shalkan appearances. Unfortunately everything seemed a little rushed. I could have cut a good 20 pages from the book if we were not reminded of Vestakia's mom every time she is mentioned and some other obvious and repeating background information. (Although snarky elves and unicorns make up for it.)From everything indicated earlier in the year this volume was supposed to be released in July, however despite a delayed release I ran across quite a few typos and some shoddy sentences. It wouldn't bug me so much for a $7.00 paperback, but I would prefer my more expensive ($27.99) hardbacks to have a few less problems. Overall it was good, and concluded most everything well, if seeming to rush to an anticlimactic ending. I sincerely hope Lackey and Mallory team up for more, as I would love to read more about characters like Shalkan, Idalia, or Jermayan and Ancaladar.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Broken alliances, the danger of unbridled anger, the wonder of trust and forgiveness, and the power of good over evil make When Darkness Falls perhaps the best of the three books in the Obsidian Trilogy. It brings the story to a very satisfying conclusion, resolving just enough issues and leaving just enough pain and happiness to go around. I began to guess the twist before the end, and found I’d only guessed a fraction of it. A well-woven trilogy, a well-built world, well-realized magic, and fascinating characters. Highly recommended.Disclosure: I’m going to reread it soon.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The final book in the Obsidian Trilogy.This was a good end to the series. I enjoyed it quite a bit, and loved seeing how everyone ended up. By the last hundred and fifty pages or so, I was so absorbed that I whipped on through as quickly as I could manage.But, that said, this is definitely the weakest book in the series; there are some very odd consistency errors, the timeline is rather off, and it took me a little while to get really involved in the story again. Once I was there, though, I was there. I’ll miss everyone now that the series is over, and I'm looking forward to reading Lackey and Mallory's new book set in the same world.