When Darkness Falls

Name: When Darkness Falls
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.5 (8 reviews)
Author: Mercedes Lackey
ISBN: 9781400183845

Author: Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory

Series: Obsidian #3

Narrator: Susan Ericksen

Unabridged: 25 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/17/2010

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Epic

Synopsis

A great working of Wild Magic and High Magic strikes at the heart of the Demon Queen's plots, but the human city, the Golden City of the Bells, falls farther under her sway with each day that passes. And without the City's High Magicians, the Wild Magicians, the Elven Army, and all their allies will surely fall before the onslaught of the Demon Queen's malignant warriors.

But not all hope is lost. The Light's young mages, tempered by war, grow ever more powerful. High Mage Cilarnen learns an ancient secret that can make him, for a brief, white-hot time, the greatest mage in the world—unless it kills him.

Jermayan, the first Elf-Mage in centuries, has linked with the dragon Ancaladar and rediscovered the swift-as-thought powers of Elven magic, which can reshape mountains and summon lightning from clear skies.

Knight-Mage Kellen has molded his troops and the Unicorn Knights into a deadly fighting force. Soon the Elven King and his Commanders put Kellen's magical gifts to their greatest test, in the final battle between the Elves, the humans, and the Demons.

About Mercedes Lackey

Mercedes Lackey is a full-time writer and has published numerous novels and works of short fiction, including the bestselling Heralds Of Valdemar series. She is also a professional lyricist and a licensed wild bird rehabilitator. She lives in Oklahoma with her husband, artist Larry Dixon, and their flock of parrots.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne on March 27, 2012

Third and final book to The Obsidian Trilogy. I've already provided extensive reviews to the first two, and I fear risking repeating myself as I consider its positive and negative points. The good of this book (and the series as a whole) seems rooted in its interesting systems of Magic, its classic h......more

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on January 11, 2013

Well....this one might best be thought of as a 3.5. I like this series and was very drawn in. I jumped from the second to this one immediately after finishing it. This one however slowed down a bit in that it got very repetitive. Ms. Lackey seemed to for a while to have fallen prey to "Robert Jordan......more

Goodreads review by MiriamReadsBooks on April 26, 2010

A lot of people see Mercedes Lackey's books as immature or unoriginal. I have even heard people say that she can't write without the help of someone else. I tend to disagree. It's not Bronte or Douglas Adams or Arthur Clark. This book, and all of Lackey's, are what they are and are nothing else. Som......more

Goodreads review by Karen on July 21, 2009

I wasn't a big fan of this book or this trilogy overall. I had three main complaints: 1) It's morally simplistic. There are the good guys and the bad guys. To make it even easier, you can basically tell whether someone is good or bad by what species they are and if they are from the "bad" species (de......more

Goodreads review by B.P. on April 10, 2017

The series ends pretty much like I expected it to. There weren't really any surprises the good guys win and the bad guys lose. Just like the rest in the series it isn't the most original tale, but it was still enjoyable. I was a bit surprised that the story continued a bit after the final battle. In......more