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When the King IV comes home . . .
Good King Julian of Aravis has been dead for two hundred years, but his kingdom still misses him. The current occupant of the throne is old and witless and has no heir. The true ruler of Aravis is the powerful Prince Bishop, who controls both church and state.
When the King comes home, all wishes will be granted.
Hail Rosmer wants to be an artist-not an ordinary artist, but a great artist, as great as the fabled Maspero, who painted the famous Archangel altarpiece in the Palace of Aravis and made Good King Julian's crown.
When the King comes home, all dreams will be made real.
One day, Hail sees a man catching fish from the river and eating it raw. The man's clothes are antique in fashion. He looks exactly like King Julian of Aravis. And there begins an adventure that takes Hail and her enigmatic companion from palace to wilderness to battlefield and teaches her, and the rest of Aravis, what happens when the King comes home in sober reality.
Good King Julian of Aravis has been dead for two hundred years, but his kingdom still misses him. The current occupant of the throne is old and witless and has no heir. The true ruler of Aravis is the powerful Prince Bishop, who controls both church and state.
When the King comes home, all wishes will be granted.
Hail Rosmer wants to be an artist-not an ordinary artist, but a great artist, as great as the fabled Maspero, who painted the famous Archangel altarpiece in the Palace of Aravis and made Good King Julian's crown.
When the King comes home, all dreams will be made real.
One day, Hail sees a man catching fish from the river and eating it raw. The man's clothes are antique in fashion. He looks exactly like King Julian of Aravis. And there begins an adventure that takes Hail and her enigmatic companion from palace to wilderness to battlefield and teaches her, and the rest of Aravis, what happens when the King comes home in sober reality.
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After reading Sorcery and Cecelia, I wanted to read another of this author's books; the library had this one and so it was the first. Pretty good, but not quite up there with S&C. There was only one line that really made me laugh (quite silly and unstopably for several minutes) and the action drug on a bit. Plus I didn't think as much of the epilogue was needed. But it was definitely better than a lot of things I've read in the past - just not on the excellent side.
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Bren This book was OK but nowhere near as good as A College of Magics or A Scholar of Magics. And there is nothing to tie it to the other books in the series except for the setting. I didn't think the author did as good a job with character development in this book, and I found it hard to really care about Hail the way I did about the main characters in the other books. And I came away from the book feeling like I hadn't totally understood what it was about. If I had read this book before I read College and Scholar, I might not have read them at all because I wouldn't have been all that impressed by the author.
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