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"When Caleb returns, everything changes for Tad and Zane. The two boys had been left out on Choosing Day, and therefore have no apprenticeship. Caleb offers Tad and Zane's mother to find an apprenticeship for the boys, and before they know it, they're on a cart leaving Stardock Town. They are followed by some bandits and, on Caleb's orders, flee, leaving Caleb to fight the bandits alone. Two bandits follow and the boys dispatch them before returning to the cart and finding Caleb unconscious. They take the cart to the next town and all becomes apparent.
Caleb is the son of Pug, the founder of the academy of magicians on Stardock Island. Via magical means they are transported to Sorceror's Isle, where they are trained to work for Pug's mysterious Conclave of Shadows over many months before being sent to the city of Kesh, where they must find the dangerous Leso Varen.
It soon becomes obvious that the Nighthawks, a secret sect of assassins have risen again in Kesh, almost a century after they were ended in Krondor. Caleb and the boys find themselves facing two tasks: firstly to find and subdue Varen, and to uncover the headquarters of the Nighthawks."
Patrick Sykes, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 10%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 40%
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- fantasy world/fantasy past
Spying & Investigations
Yes
What is main char. doing?
- unraveling a conspiracy
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- warrior/knight
Age:
- 20's-30's
Has magical/special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character:
- is very quick
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Main Adversary
Identity:
- magical being
Age:
- long-lived adults
Profession/status:
- mage/magician
Has magical powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
- mind control
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- obsessed
- deluded
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a little/some
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Setting
A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body:
- humans in a primitive/fantasy society
Planet outside solar system?
Yes
Style
Person?
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
How much dialogue?
- significantly more descript than dialog
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