Intrigues, Mercedes Lackey
Intrigues, Mercedes Lackey
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Intrigues
The Collegium Chronicles

Author: Mercedes Lackey

Narrator: Nick Podehl

Unabridged: 9 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 10/05/2010

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy


Synopsis

Mags was an orphan and slave of “bad blood” who toiled a gem mine all his young life. He would have died before adulthood, had he not been Chosen and taken to Haven to be trained in the new Herald Collegium.Now, Mags was never hungry and never cold. He slept in a real bed in his own room and, most importantly, he had Dallen, who was like another part of himself. And yet, aside from Lena and Bear, both loners like he was, he couldn’t relate to most of the Herald, Healer, or Bard trainees. He was the only trainee who came from what—to the others—was unimaginable poverty. There was another factor that contributed to Mag’s isolation. Foreign assassins, masquerading at court as envoys were discovered. As they fled from the Guard, one of them seemed to “recognize” Mags. Now, Mags was an object of suspicion.He had always been curious about his parents, but after the incident it became urgent for Mags to discover exactly who his parents were. And at Haven, he had access to the extensive Archives. Poring through the Archives, he got only incomplete information: his parents, found dead in a bandit camp, had been two of a number of hostages, some of whom had survived. The survivors had told the Guard that Mags’s parents spoke a language that no one understood or recognized.This information did not help, for the ForeSeers had been having visions of the king’s assassination by “one of the foreign blood.” Some had even Seen Mags with blood on his hands. How could Mags defend himself against a crime that hadn’t yet been committed?

About Mercedes Lackey

Mercedes Lackey is the author of the Valdemar series, including Take a Thief and Exile's Honor. She is the coauthor, with Andre Norton, of the Halfblood Chronicles, including Elvenborn. Some of her other novels include The Gates of Sleep, Sacred Ground, The Firebird, The Black Swan, and The Serpent's Shadow. She lives in Oklahoma.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel on May 03, 2021

3.75 stars Book 2 of the Valdemar Collegium Chronicles, Intrigues follows Mags, a young herald trainee as he tries to navigate the world of training and working as a spy for the King’s Own. Armed mostly with his gift of telepathy, Mags finds himself at risk when most everyone seems to be afraid of......more

Goodreads review by Dorri on October 17, 2010

I went into this book loving Magpie as a character. Some people are broken by things that have happened to them in life, but it is how you learn to survive those breaking to become what you are suppose to be. No, it's not always easy, but then who said it was suppose to be? I'm glad I didn't read a......more

Goodreads review by Kogiopsis on August 21, 2011

Mercedes Lackey, I am disappoint. It's been a bit since I went through my Valdemar binge, and in the interval I've looked back on the series and seen some of its flaws: the worldbuilding isn't all that creative, the characters generally caricatured, the plots rather uninspired, the angst overexaggera......more

Goodreads review by Steven on May 05, 2014

Ah, the Collegium Chronicles, also known as "Lackey rewrites Harry Potter". Let's list the similarities: In the first book: Young, callow, orphaned male protagonist is rescued from a horrifically abusive situation and whisked off to a school for kids with supernatural powers. There, he becomes great f......more