Goddess of the Ice Realm (Lord of the Isles)

This far into the series, you'd think the characters would start getting stale and so would the adventures. You'd think that if you didn't know of the amazing talent of David Drake, who has managed to avoid both of those things and did the exact opposite with the characters growing and the adventures far more exciting than the ones before. That's what you get from a Master Author. As usual, there are more twists and turns than you'd see on a snake with a broken back that appear to be far flung before being gathered together. Another book well worth your time to read. "Starting in Lord of the Isles and continuing in Queen of Demons, Servant of the Dragon, and Mistress of the Catacombs, David Drake has told the continuing, interlocking stories of Garric and Sharina, Cashel and Ilna, young brother-and-sister pairs who journey together from a small town to the capital.Their destiny is to reunite the island kingdoms of the Isles into one empire for the first time in a millennium. They seek to do this at a moment in history when the cosmic forces upon which magicians draw are at a thousand-year peak. Wizards of even small learning are immensely powerful. Human greed and evil are reinforced by supernatural energies. In Goddess of the Ice Realm, as Garric and his retinue reach the island of city Carcosa, the wizard Tenoctris perceives a powerful supernatural assault directed against them. Ilna and her beloved, Chalcus, are sent to investigate a magical threat to shipping in the north. Cashel is translated into another world by evil magic, and Sharina to yet another. All of them face deadly dangers and overcome them before they are again united during the terrifying and dramatic climax. Filled with action, startling revelations, romance and sorcery, Goddess of the Ice Realm is epic fantasy at its exciting best."--Book jacket flap Garric and his companions become the target of a powerful supernatural assault, Ilna and her beloved Chalcus are sent to investigate a magical threat to the north, and Cashel is hurtled by evil magic into another world David Drake. A Tom Doherty Associates Book. A New Volume In The Saga Of Lord Of The Isles--cover.