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Darksong Rising: The Third Book of the Spellsong Cycle
by: L. E. Modesitt Jr.

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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780812566680
ISBN: 0812566688
Label: Tor Fantasy
Manufacturer: Tor Fantasy
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: January 15, 2001
Publisher: Tor Fantasy
Sales Rank: 170737
Studio: Tor Fantasy

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Darksong Rising is the third Spellsong book , and concludes a trilogy featuring Anna Marshall, the music teacher and soprano from the midwest transported into a fantasy world where magic works according to musical principles--making her a powerful magician. Now Regent of Defalk, Anna must battle men who would destroy her and claim Defalk for their own.

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Not Free SF Reader
An aging Anna is still the boss, but she still struggles to gain respect. Her regency charge is almost an adult now, and does some of the usual teenage things. She has to try and prepare him for his role through all of this.

The local rich guys are not a big fan of how good you are at your job being more important than whose womb you came out of, but this is the system Anna is instituting.

She finally comes around to the idea that getting laid might be good, too.

Rating:

- The strongest of the series so far
In contrast to some of the other reviews posted here, I have to say I think this is the strongest, best-written, and most tightly plotted novel in the series so far. Gone are the interminable references to Anna clearing mucous from her throat, the endless reminders that she needs to eat, the countless comparisons of Jecks to Robert Mitchum, and much of the pointless sitting around and nattering that marred earlier installments. Each of these are still present, but thankfully not OMNIpresent as they were before.

In fact, I wonder if Modesitt either hired a ghost writer or a better editor for Darksong Rising, it's that much better-written than the first two.

I was glad to see them finally bringing Jimbob (Worst. King. Name. Ever.) along on an expedition and trying to involve him in the running of things -- I swear, they treat him like a stuffed doll for most of the series.

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- Fun, but not fulfilling
This third book in the Spellsong Cycle left me a little unsatisfied. I say a little and I mean it literally, because when this book was good it was DY-NO-MITE ala Jay Jay Evans. However, I did find myself wishing that Modessitt would get a little more experimental or playful with the story at times. For example:
- What would happen if she fretted her lutar? Wouldn't it be louder?
- What would happen if her daughter sent her a bunch of Earth-made, precision instruments? What about a really simple phonograph and symphony records? It wouldn't amplify, but it would probably be earth-shakingly magical in one area.
- I'd like to learn more about Jecks. Maybe even have a whole chapter devoted to Jecks and what he was doing. That would have been great in this book because he was in the castle by himself for who knows how long. What did he have to do?

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Rating:

- Poorly thought out
I enjoyed the first two in this series, but this one was, frankly, just stupid in places. Not only were the characters black-and-white cutouts rehashed from the previous books, but the sorceress herself was just plain dumb at times. If you know the Bad Guy uses huge drums to amplify his magic and you have this convenient spell that rains fire from the heavens, it might occur to any sentient being to hit the drums with the fire while the Bad Guy is asleep, instead of waiting until he wakes up and tries to defend himself. Apparently that's too much to hope for.

Also too much to hope is moral ambiguity and any chance that someone the sorceress dislikes at first glance will turn out to be anything other than a Bad Guy (possibly temporarily tolerated for Political Purposes).

I had high hopes for this series. Pity this book is in it.

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