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The Long Hunt: Mageworlds Book Five
The Long Hunt: Mageworlds Book Five
The Long Hunt: Mageworlds Book Five
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The Fifth Book of Mageworlds:

Welcome to Khesat, glittering jewel of the Central Worlds. Khesat, where decadence is an art form and intrigue is a way of life--and where, more than twenty years after the end of the Second Magewar, power struggles within the ruling family threaten both the Mageworlds and the Republic.

The Khesatan crisis has broken the spaceways apart, reviving old alliances and buried rivalries. Warring factions, criminal guilds, and supranormal forces all have their eyes turned toward Jens Metadi-Jessan D'Rosselin, only child to the scapegrace brother of the current--and childless--Highest of Khesat. Whoever controls the heir controls Khesat, and whoever controls Khesat controls the galaxy.

Jens doesn't know that he's the first item on a long roll-call of agendas. He's off to see the galaxy in company with his cousin Faral. They're looking for excitement and adventure. Before the dust settles, they'll get more of both than they bargained for...

And the civilized galaxy may never be the same again.


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LanguageEnglish
Release dateAug 15, 1996
ISBN9781466802063
The Long Hunt: Mageworlds Book Five
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Debra Doyle

Debra Doyle has a doctorate in English literature. Together, she and James Macdonald have written numerous sf/f books. They live in Colebrook, New Hampshire.

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    Definitely a step down from the first four of this series. It felt "slapped together". The authors are good storytellers, but I walked away dissatisfied.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Well, I'm glad I read it. Nice addition to the world. But I don't find that universe particularly interesting (I don't know why...and actually, I'm currently itching to read the first one again...maybe I will). Hmmm - what it is is, I don't find the mystic stuff particularly interesting, though I enjoy the space opera. And this one is pretty thoroughly mixed, but all (or nearly all) the deep motivations and action-drivers are on the mystic side. If it had been more from Jens' point of view, and we'd known from the start what his motivation was, it might have been space-opera-ish enough for me; since we mostly see it from Faral's point of view, and he's busy trying to figure out the immediate world more than looking for motivations, the various angles of Mage and Adept and ghost(s) take on too much importance. And like most such mystic stuff, the ending - the "climax" - is way too fuzzy. How did Guislen get anywhere? Were Mael's efforts with the cable helping, or could they have been done separately? Why was Klea left out of the battle (that's a decision by the authors)? The epilogue is funny, and politics thereafter will be more interesting than they were before...but still. Glad I read it, doubt I'll reread, at least any time soon.

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