Lord of the Changing Winds, Rachel Neumeier
Lord of the Changing Winds, Rachel Neumeier
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Lord of the Changing Winds

Author: Rachel Neumeier

Narrator: Emily Durante

Unabridged: 11 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/27/2010

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Epic


Synopsis

Griffins lounged all around them, inscrutable as cats, brazen as summer. They turned their heads to look at Kes out of fierce, inhuman eyes. Their feathers, ruffled by the wind that came down the mountain, looked like they had been poured out of light; their lion haunches like they had been fashioned out of gold. A white griffin, close at hand, looked like it had been made of alabaster and white marble and then lit from within by white fire. Its eyes were the pitiless blue-white of the desert sky.

Little ever happens in the quiet villages of peaceful Feierabiand. The course of Kes's life seems set: she'll grow up to be an herb-woman and healer for the village of Minas Ford, never quite fitting in but always more or less accepted. And she's content with that path—or she thinks she is. Until the day the griffins come down from the mountains, bringing with them the fiery wind of their desert and a desperate need for a healer. But what the griffins need is a healer who is not quite human...or a healer who can be made into something not quite human.

About Rachel Neumeier

Rachel Neumeier is the author of the epic Griffin Mage trilogy and the young adult fantasy novel The City in the Lake. Prior to selling her first fantasy novel, she had published only a few articles in venues such as the American Journal of Botany. However, finding that her interests did not lie in research, Rachel left academia and began to let her hobbies take over her life instead. She now works part-time for a tutoring program.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kater on August 04, 2010

In many ways, this is a perfectly decent sword-and-castle type fantasy, and in one way it's better, because it has griffins. The griffins are the best part, because griffins are awesome and underused. The plot is great: we have three different peoples, the griffins, the humans of Feierabriand and the......more

Goodreads review by Paul on June 20, 2010

I love Griffins. Sure, Dragons are awesome. Dragons are mighty. Dragons go with heroic fantasy as much as, say, treasure laden dungeons. But Griffins... Combine a lion, king of the beasts, with an eagle, king of the air. That's a potent combination. A combination that speaks to me in a way that the col......more

Goodreads review by D. B. Guin on November 26, 2024

I'm not quite sure what to say about this. Was I compelled? Yes. Did I ENJOY it? Mostly no. This book starts with Kes, a teenager from a small, pastoral town who has never quite fit in with the others around her. She doesn't talk much, has a quiescent personality, and prefers wandering the hills alon......more

Goodreads review by Teril on October 07, 2010

I love griffins, so I picked up this book at Powells over the summer. It was a great read, the characters are detailed. I guess i give it a three because I was not feeling complete after the ending. Don't get me wrong it was a great read and I went to the bookstore and picked up book two but I think......more

Goodreads review by Rosalind M on May 01, 2010

For me, the story was lost in the amount of information the author gave about characters, places, and history. I got to the point where I was skipping over pages of background information that should have been woven into the storyline or may not really have been integral to the plot as the reader sa......more