Amber Magic is the fist book in five lovely smashing beatifully written books. This is quite a short book but I was quite taken with it, Enough so that I purchased the other four as well :)
Now, It smacks slightly of The Lord of the Rings, BUT, they are my favorite books of all time aside from Narnia.
It even has Shade in Amber Magic, Now then, You will want a bit of bumf so here ya go:-
The humans have no magic and are hunted for sport, but that is about to change. War is coming...
The Sun Dragon spawned nine lesser dragons which devoured their parent for the power the elder possessed. These young dragons fought for choice bits of the Sun Dragon, but each only managed to eat a portion, thus giving them specific powers. Over time, these foul dragons were hunted down and slain by heroes of old. When each body rotted away, nothing was left save for a Jewel—the lens of each dragon’s left eye. These Nine Eyes, or Jewels, form the basis for all magic in the world.
Ooooo yummy. The dragon Stone books (not that I have read them all yet) sound just divine. And the first one was just that, I couldnt put it down. Here is my little take on things so far.
Now then, There was a pact between the Fearie and the River Folk (Or humans if you prefer) and the deal was that the River Folk gives one in seven of all their yearly harvest to the greedy Fearie people, (This is the Offering) And in return the Fearie wont play tricks, Now by tricks I mean really mean ones, Such as putting Changelings in place of new born babes so they can have an easy life of free food and warm baths and such for the rest of their lives, Its not mentioned where the new borns are sent but there is a mention of them being hidden away forever with no one to care for them.
Anywho the pact is now broken (oops) and the Fearie lord has been overthrown because the rest of the Fearie quite like their tricks (obviously) another part of the deal was that the Fearie would keep out the other nasties from the River Folks dwellings. Well thats stopped hasnt it? Now there is this young River boy called Brand and he has been dragged into this head first and the poor mite hasnt got the foggiest about what is going on and has to fight all these little nasties, (just like poor Frodo Baggins eh) But who cares I mean the story is fabulous, And I had a really hard time putting my Kindle down, But seriously you HAVE to get this book, It should be law that you get this book.
I dont know if the others will be as short as this one but the first ones usually are quite short, Im assuming that the others will be longer, Its hard to judge on a Kindle to be honest cos there isnt really page numbers, Its just a percent of what you have already read.
Anyway, Prices are :-
Kindle £0.71
There are no other prices available for paperback or hardback so I am not sure if you can buy this on anything but the Kindle. Sorry. Have a look round and let me know.
Enjoy :)
