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    Initiate’s Trial: First book of Sword of the Canon
    Initiate’s Trial: First book of Sword of the Canon
    Initiate’s Trial: First book of Sword of the Canon
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    Initiate’s Trial: First book of Sword of the Canon

    By Janny Wurts

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    The long-awaited beginning of the fourth story arc – Sword of the Canon – in the epic fantasy series, the Wars of Light and Shadow.

    Betrayed and double-crossed, Arithon s’Ffalenn is held captive by the Order of the Koriathain. The desperate Fellowship Sorcerers have gambled the weal of Athera and forced through the perilous bargain that spared him, as the last Prince of Rathain, and their sole hope of unity. To suspend the Prime Matriarch’s decree of execution, Arithon lives only to battle Marak’s horde of free wraiths, unleashed one by one from the shielding grip of the star wards.

    But on the day the last wraith is redeemed, the inflexible terms sealed by Dakar’s oath of debt will be forfeit…

    Against a backdrop in which the Religion of Light has undergone schism, the fanatical True Sect’s high priesthood stands consumed by its thwarted ambition: to conquer Havish, the backbone of order that secures the terms of Paravian survival. Now Lord Mayor of Etarra, Lysaer s’Ilessid must fight the pull of the Mistwraith’s curse, and battle for sanity to uphold his just ethic. Another young defender will stand at his side, newly sworn by the Sorcerer’s auspices.

    As Arithon’s life once again becomes the fulcrum that shifts the game board, Elaira’s choice might save or break the unstable future; while at large and answerable to no mortal law, Davien and the dragon that holds his service throw in the wild card no one predicts…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateOct 27, 2011
    ISBN9780007384471
    Initiate’s Trial: First book of Sword of the Canon
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    Janny Wurts

    Janny Wurts is the author of the ‘Cycle of Fire’ series, co-author of the Empire series and is currently working through the Wars of Light and Shadow series. She paints all her own covers and is also an expert horsewoman, sailor, musician and archer.

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    • 5/5
      I roared along the book and my spontaneous comment after the final sequence was “OMG! Read this one!”

      Heartfelt advice; if you’ve read Stormed Fortress, do not miss this first book of the Sword of the Canon Arc. I'm very happy I read this gripping installment straightaway, Initiate's Trial shifts gears but not the pace, which increases, again, and what sets the stage is the very ending of the previous book, particularly all the things that emerge in the final chapters. Another round of applause to the author, I was surprised yet again and it wasn't easy, after the awesome Alliance of Light Arc, to write something equally powerful and continuing the story with originality and sensation. The approach is pretty intense, and daring, because the tale is not done in linear time. It was not easy to accept it at first, considering how I loved the story and the characters, but then I just immersed into the narrative and saw the events through the eyes of the protagonists; this literary choice added to the reading momentum: going forward, I was also in suspense to find out what had happened before.

      It takes courage, certainly, but after the ending of Stormed Fortress, I guess a different direction may have sprawled things and probably one of the elements why this series works so fine for me is, in hindsight, that while the story never takes an angle of unredeemable sadness and pain, nothing overstays its welcome. The Wars of Light and Shadow doesn’t suffer from lack of inspiration or from excessive attachment to characters or situations, or on the other hand, from deliberate slaughter.

      I am again reminded Janny Wurts is an author who doesn't repeat herself and doesn’t sacrifice coherence for expediency's sake; she keeps fitting a multi-layered epic into no wasted steps and brilliantly manages to raise tension and conflict with each volume.

      I particularly relished the enfolding themes of the nature of religious fanaticism, social stigma, of the necessity of balancing conflicting interests, the many shades of redemption, the rippling impact of individual choices, the backlash of power and the several surprises with double ramifications genially spread throughout the book, among which, some exciting reveals on Lysaer character.

      The book is deeply engaging, yet it's different from all its predecessors. It is exactly the reader’s knowledge of the story which allows the shocking opening and the narrower outlet on the events; I also loved the way the language matches the feeling of uncertainty, of unbalance and of the instinct behavior of the characters involved; then the veil gradually lifts granting both fast-paced action and introspection, until the climax when all the threads burst forth. Throughout, the intensity never wavers. Characteristically, the book does not end with a cliff-hanger, but needless to say, many things have been set into motion and I am fully in step with the new situation, eagerly looking forward to Destiny’s Conflict.
    • 4/5
      I received this book through the Early Reviewer program. I decided not to just pick it up and read it but instead decided to read the entire series in order first. I'm very glad I did. This is not the sort of series you can jump around in. Each book builds upon the previous one, with consequences from earlier actions affecting not only the individuals but the overall course of the plot.The characters are multi-layered and complex. They grow, they evolve, they make a LOT of mistakes, and then they have to live with those mistakes and, where possible, right wrongs done or at least try to mitigate the unfortunate fallout. But that isn't always possible. Sometimes you just have to accept.The world is well-drawn and with many hidden, or little-understood or long-forgotten complexities. It's a fantasy world, but one with tightly drawn rules and when something surprises you, you can remember, far back in a previous book, there was a hint of this to come.If you love fantasy, love your characters tricksy and smart, determined, sometimes nefarious, and you love a world you have to work at to get a grasp on, then this is a series for you.Me, I'm loving it.
    • 4/5
      Reading this book had me worried, because it's been a while since I'd read anything in this series AND I hadn't read books in between Curse of the Mistwraith/Ships of Merior/Fugitive Prince and this one... So needless to say, everything here was really only vaguely familiar.Reading the first chapter made me remember why I had mixed feelings about the books a long time ago (and why they took me an inordinate amount of time to read)—Wurts very much enjoys the use of convoluted sentence structures, long sentences, and adjectives. This was fine while the story was building, but in the various battle scenes I found myself skimming ahead because reading these long, twisting sentences was slowing down the scene.Throughout the book, I didn't feel as "left behind" as I think I could have, but there were surely things that would have made more sense or become richer in meaning had I not skipped from the beginning of the series to the end. There were quite a few references that I had to leave behind because I just didn't understand them, and while I feel okay doing that every so often, I realize other readers may not feel the same.What I really admired about the book is that instead of turning me off the series (for various reasons—too difficult to read quickly, the typeset is too small, I've missed a lot in between the last of these books that I've read and this one, and so forth), reading this book made me really want to go back and get caught up. I enjoyed the multifaceted characters, and I really enjoy series where a set of characters are developed over the course of thousands of pages. This is certainly an intriguing read, and at some point I'll get my hands on the rest of the books to have it all make sense!
    • 1/5
      There is a chance that I would have a different opinion if I had read the earlier books in the series, but I found Initiate's Trial impossible to read and eventually just gave up. The prose is simultaneously dull and confused, the story choppy and difficult to follow. I don't mind stories that take a few liberties with verbosity, but this particular book went too far.
    • 3/5
      Enjoyable book. I hope to read more in this series in the near future. Author has a good way at make characters and action move along nicely.
    • 3/5
      I received this book from the Early reviewers program on Library thing. I had a difficult time reading this particular book, due to the very small print in the book, however, with having not read any of the books in this series and then reading this one, I have to say there was enough background information from previous books to get through it with minimal frustration. I thought the book was very details and the characters and their unique names were a story of their own. I enjoyed the story told, and all of the detail. I did rate the book 3 of 5 stars and that is mostly due to the writing style being complicated at times, and mixed with the tiny font made it somewhat hard to read, but otherwise I did enjoy this book and even though would love to go backwards and read the first 8 books of this very high fantasy series. I hope a lot of people read and love this series. My only advice, or more so hope for future books is bigger font.
    • 2/5
      WHen this series first started, I really enjoyed it and thought it had a lot of promise. Somewhere around book 4, it started to slow down and drag, badly. The hero, Arithon, is more victim than hero, as over and over she traps him by circumstances into actually doing something. On and on, very little happening, with Arithon paralyzed by angst every time he swatts a fly. The somewhat novel twist of light being evil and dark being good can't save this series from the endless torture of the plot. Unfortunately Arithon and other key figures seem to be immortal, so the pain just continues. To make it even worse, in mass market format this looks like a normal, somewhat long length novel of 578 pages, but the type is tiny, disguising what would probably be a 700 page book.
    • 2/5
      Janny Wurts’ Initiate’s Trial is not a book I would have bought for myself off of a shelf. The print borders on microscopic in size, so I downloaded a sample of the book to read the first 32 pages more easily. I am an English professor by trade, and have to admit that I struggled with the first section of the book which immediately immerses us from the point of view of someone who has no memory of who or what he is. Wurts does a pretty good job of making us believe the guy is clueless and must regain his ability to think straight, since the fragmentary sentences that proliferate this portion of the book make understanding the ideas challenging, and highly annoying, to read. If I had been browsing this book at a bookstore, these two factors—the tiny print and the difficult, choppy narrative flow—would have made me pass this book by without a second thought.To be fair, though, I continued to read on. As I struggled with Wurts’ tortured prose, I had to wonder how she could have gotten so far as a writer to have had nearly 20 books published.The further I read, the more I hated the writer’s style of prose, but the more I became intrigued by the scenario unfolding from it. Granted, the premise of the story is simplistic—a tortured prince, who has to regain his memories and sense of self is freed from his stasis by a rebellious witch, who sacrifices her life, thus fulfilling her destiny, in order to free him and to free an order of sorcerers from being forcefully and magically bound by a vicious bunch of witches. Low and behold, the prince appears to be the key to something big, but Wurts feeds us the information in inscrutable bits meant to tantalize.The book is 552 pages of teeny tiny print, so we know something interesting has to happen along the way, but the first 32 pages—some of the most important pages in a novel—are tedious. Wurts seems to use a thesaurus as she writes in an attempt to impress her readers or to avoid saying any noun, except the ones she invents (there is a glossary in the back), more than once. Add that level of arrogance to the fragment-heavy prose, and only modern readers used to the cryptic and elliptical nature of text messages will be willing to march through the adventure.But they'll need good eye sight to do it.
    • 1/5
      I really did not like this book. Maybe it is because I stepped in at book #9, or maybe it was the really small print that made it difficult to read. Then again there where whole stretches where I had no idea what was going on. I could see a good story in there, and in places I was riveted. It still was not enough to make me want to read the rest of the series. I have encountered this author before, mostly in short stories. Her style is very descriptive and flowery. I have never had the patience to wade through pages of description to get to the story.
    • 5/5
      The first of a new story Arc, a sub-series within the greater Wars of Light and Shadow. It is necessary to have read the repvious books, but probably not necessary to have done so recently, this book starts off with a massive leap in time, and is almost discontinuous from the events of the last book Stormed Fortress. Fortunetly for the dedicated fans, the writing and characters remain as enjoyable as ever, with plenty of new faces and plots twists to encounter.Rapidly apparent in the opening paragraphs is that a serious amount of time has passed, even though the world remains essentially unchanged. Some two hundred and fifty years have elapsed, Arithon has spent them sealed in a construct defusing the wraiths from Marak, but only as part of a bargain with the Korianthin. Lyessar has split from his religion, and no longer claims divine right, but the religion has continued on steamroller like, without him. Much effort expended in an attempt to curb the attrocitiies it commits in his name, but with Arithon's release the old curse stuirs up it's hatred again, somehting the witches have been hoping and planning for these two centuries. Their aim to break the compact forever, and grant mankind the right to live on the world unhindered remains, even though so doing may cause the permenant loss of something wonderful beyond human comprehension.Much enjoyed, and need to re-read to fully grasp the details. I still think the societies should evolve more over those sorts of time, and wanted a lot more details about the great betrayal. Somewhere it should have been possible to cast a 'when I remembered ..' scene somewhat equivalent to the various scying inot locations that happens. Even if arithon can't currently remember it, someone (Dakar?) should have been able to do so. I was expecting and enjoyed the various new characters, and of course the continuation of those capable of withstanding the ravages of time. I wasn't expecting new places to appear, previously undescribed powers. I'm not sure if I previously missed references to them, or if they've just been inserted into previously empty bits of the map. It was as unsettling as not knowing the details of the key events that happened between then and now. The above are however only minor niggles in another great outing and with another 300 years to fit into the next two or so books I'm sure there's even more action to fit in!
    • 5/5
      (spoiler free!)With Initiate's Trial, another piece is fitted into the gorgeous puzzle that is the Wars of Light and Shadow series, bringing it closer to completion. Although perhaps that's not really the right analogy, since each successive book doesn't so much fill a gaping hole as add a new layer of understanding and depth to the story. If you haven't read Wurts before, my only warning is that these books are not the sort that you breeze through... Wurts is a visual writer (makes sense, since she's also a phenomenal artist); she chooses her words with great deliberation for the utmost clarity and impact, and they are best savored like fine chocolate, not Hershey's :) For me, it's a treat to read these books more slowly than most others, to follow the action in my mind's eye with all senses engaged. I hate the fact that there are several years between each volume, but I absolutely understand that this sort of quality demands it, and I'm grateful she takes the time to do it right. Initiate's Trial begins a new (2-book) arc which leads up to the final (1-book) arc to complete the story. It takes place over a very short period of time, with a lot of information to be passed along from many diverse locations around the story (although in a quite clever way, I thought... certainly no infodumps here!), and for necessity a good bit of it surely is the setup for the next/final volume in the arc. We see the growth of existing characters while new characters are introduced and skillfully maneuvered into their supporting roles. More setup, of course, but many of them feel like old friends by the end of the volume. I'm a little sad that there are only two more books left in this series (unless length dictates otherwise), but I'm also excited to be that much closer to seeing the whole picture.

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