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Original Title: | Geomancer |
ISBN: | 1841491373 (ISBN13: 9781841491370) |
Edition Language: | English URL http://www.ian-irvine.com/geomancer_ch1.html |
Series: | The Well of Echoes #1, The Three Worlds Cycle #5 |
Ian Irvine
Ebook | Pages: 621 pages Rating: 3.87 | 2087 Users | 96 Reviews
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Two hundred years after the Forbidding was broken, Santhenar is locked in war with the lyrinx - intelligent, winged predators who will do anything to gain their own world. Despite the development of battle clankers and mastery of the crystals that power them, humanity is losing.Tiaan, a lonely crystal worker in a clanker manufactory, is experimenting with an entirely new kind of crystal when she begins to have extraordinary visions. The crystal has woken her latent talent for geomancy, the most powerful of all the Secret Arts - and the most perilous.
Falsely accused of sabotage by her rival, Irisis, Tiaan flees for her life. Struggling to control her talent and hunted by the lyrinx, Tiaan follows her visions all the way to Tirthrax, greatest peak on all the Three Worlds, where a nightmare awaits her.
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Title | : | Geomancer (The Well of Echoes #1) |
Author | : | Ian Irvine |
Book Format | : | Ebook |
Book Edition | : | First mass market UK edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 621 pages |
Published | : | (first published September 1st 2001) |
Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction. Epic Fantasy |
Rating Of Books Geomancer (The Well of Echoes #1)
Ratings: 3.87 From 2087 Users | 96 ReviewsColumn Of Books Geomancer (The Well of Echoes #1)
One of those books that have a great concept, fine ideas, awesome worldbuilding, interesting plot, some grey characters and all...but it's rather poorly written. Why, oh, why? It could have been one of the greatest series but it's obviously lacking. If you're looking for one of the best epic fantasies you should skip this. If you're looking for quite a different story, go for it, but don't expect for some Nobel prize winning pages.Perhaps it was the bad translation. I think the translator haveTiaan is an artisan who makes controllers, delicate instruments that control huge war machines. She lives in a world defined by its war against a winged race called the lyrinx. Everyone's job is serving the war effort, and if you aren't good enough at a skilled trade, like being an artisan, you get sent to the front lines if you're a man, and the breeding factory, where you pump out the next generation of soldiers, if you're a woman. When Tiaan is falsely accused of sabotage, she runs away, and
A bit of a disappointment for a fantasy novel as part of a trilogyI was hoping for better than this. This is the first part of a trilogy which takes place in a world relying on "fields" and crystals to fight against monsters (the lyrinx). Tiann, an artisan, is the main character and she gets involved in all sorts of intrigue, along with other major characters, Nish and Irisis. It's over 600 pages of fighting, lust, jealousy, mystical forces, monsters and betrayal. The characters are certainly
Far too many convenient incidents and co-incidences used to push the story along, combined with possibly the most willfully stupid heroine ever to grace the pages of a work of fiction. The writing style is good, the story carries you along, and rather annoyingly I half want to read the rest of the trilogy, even though I suspect I may regret it.
TL,DR: Book sucks. Beginning has co0ol ideas but the plot, characters, and writing style are horrendously unpolished.Though the author is fantastic at world-building, the plot and writing style of this book are frustratingly lacking.The book is split into five parts, each with its own flaws that I had hoped the3 other parts would remedy.The first part, for example, gives us a 20 year old woman in the midst of an awesome industrial dystopia, only to introduce two one-dimensional villains one
So, after finishing Geomancer I'm left with somewhat of a love/hate relationship with the book. The book took me back to the time when I loved to play RPG video games. You will find many similarities between the plot of this book, and the plot of some of the more popular entries in the Final Fantasy series, or similar games in that timeframe. I think it was mainly this nostalgia that got me involved in the story and pulled me through to the end.However, there are also some deep problems with the
This book was great. Irvine really quickly and perfectly introduced the characters and creates a strong relationship between them and the reader. I was invested in their lives and the outcomes of their actions. It was this, and mostly only this, that held my attention and allowed me to keep reading. For the first seventy percent of this book the events are slow, very drawn out and a little borish at parts. It's not until the last 100 pages where things begin to move very fast. Despite all this
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