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JAF1970 Jonah Falcon from New York Since: Jan, 2001
Jonah Falcon
#1: Mar 14th 2012 at 12:16:26 PM

Any fans of Stephen R. Donaldson's Mordant's Need series? (Can you call two books "a series"? :p )

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DoktorvonEurotrash Lex et Veritas from Not a place of honour (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#2: Mar 14th 2012 at 1:11:25 PM

Can't see why not. smile (In fact, in my homeland it was split up into four volumes, so I always think of it as a tetralogy.)

I read a bit of it, found the world really interesting, but lost interest because I found Terisa's extreme Damsel in Distress Broken Bird-ness hard to relate to. The writing and ideas are undoubtedly great, though, and it seemed like the story was heading for Terisa taking a level in badass as the plot proceeded. I'll give it another chance next time I find it in a library.

I need to read The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant as well...

edited 14th Mar '12 1:11:59 PM by DoktorvonEurotrash

TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#3: Mar 15th 2012 at 8:02:37 AM

Read both of them years ago. Same with the first and second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. I preferred the latter. Strange thing is that I haven't read any of the third series of Covenant books all the way through yet. Mordant's Need is quite good if you are into things that are a bit different.

JAF1970 Jonah Falcon from New York Since: Jan, 2001
Jonah Falcon
#4: Mar 15th 2012 at 2:03:02 PM

She was taking a level in badass in the last few chapters - as exemplified by her standing up to her father.

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sevlives1207 Since: Oct, 2010
#5: Jun 9th 2012 at 3:40:19 PM

Some of the better fantasy books out there ... The Mirror of Her Dreams page urgently needs more love.

tricksterson Never Trust from Behind you with an icepick Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
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#6: Jun 10th 2012 at 8:50:34 AM

Very good duology with a protagonist even more messed up than Covenant. Unfortunately overshadowed by the Chronicles.

Trump delenda est
Morven Nemesis from Seattle, WA, USA Since: Jan, 2001
Nemesis
#7: Jun 11th 2012 at 12:41:03 PM

They're excellent, with the sole flaw that Teresa remains useless way way way too long. Most of the first book, in fact. Her extreme passivity makes one want to beat her over the head with something. Once she gets over that the rest is a great read.

A brighter future for a darker age.
Merlanthe Since: Dec, 2011
#8: Jul 25th 2012 at 6:50:54 AM

Whenever the question of what my favourite book is comes up in conversation i always reply without hesitsantion that its the Mordant Need duology.

I love the characters and plot and the world especially how its a fantasy world with fantastical beasts from other worlds and a systom of magic with the imagers controlling mirrors but at the same time its also a straight forward medieval world that wouldnt have any of those fantasy elements if not for the mirrors. Its not the usual type of magic with spells and fireballs and the fantasy elements are quite original at least imho.

I found Terisa very easy to sympathise with because i was for most of my childhood and teenage years a wallflower who had trouble making friends or being confident. The way that Terisa gradually is able to discover her own selfworth and confidence and is able to become one of those girls who does something, anything, even if it turns out to be the wrong anything, as opposed to just standing there thinking about how she should do something is great imho.

And Lebbick! He's a truly amazing character with such depth and manages to be sympathetic even though he does bad stuff. I would say i wish it could have been different for him but i think he was a man broken inside even before everything that happened in the novels.

For some strange reason i absolutely hated the Thomas Covenant series though it was just so depressing i could not get into it at all.

TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#9: Jul 25th 2012 at 10:30:30 AM

[up]I loved the Covenant books. Especially the first trilogy. I haven't been able to bring myself to finish reading the third series yet. I just do not like them as much as the first one.

Mordant's Need is good though.

Merlanthe Since: Dec, 2011
#10: Sep 13th 2012 at 6:10:59 AM

Yes a lot of people love the Covenant books i did want to like them and i kept reading for longer than i usually would hoping that something would grab my attention and drag me into the story but nothing did. I just couldnt like or identify with the character of Thomas Covenant which really put me off.

I do find it interesting that Thomas Covenant and Terisa Morgan seem to have similar situations of being dragged into strange magical worlds but their initial attitudes/perceptions/reactions to the situation are quite different. Covenant doubts the reality of the world around him and takes some convincing that he is not just in some weird dream whereas Terisa quite easily accepts that the strange world and people are real its her own existence that she doubts.

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