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Volume I of "The View from the Mirror"

I really enjoyed this series, and it was one of those fantasy novels that I had to go out and buy the remainder of the series at full price because I enjoyed it so much. Of course, then I found this duplicate copy in my shelf. This needs to go out and see the world. There is an excellent theme of storytelling and the skill associated with it that I really enjoyed.

From the blurb:
Once there were three worlds, each with their own human species. Then, fleeing out of the void came a fourth species, the Charon. Desperate, on the edge of extinction, they changed the balance between the worlds forever.

Karan, a sensitive with a troubled heritage, is forced to steal an ancient relic. But it turns out to be the Mirror of Aachan, a twisted, deceitfult hing that remembers everything it has ever seen.

At the same time, Llian, a brilliant chronicler, is expelled from his college for uncovering a perilous mystery. Thrown together by fate, Karan and Llian are hunted across a world at war, for the Mirror contains a secret that offers each species survival... or extinction.

RELEASE NOTES:

Taken from the fantasy bookbag.

Couldn''t really get into this one. None of the characters really gripped me, and I balked at the thought of having to read any more, so I won''t be finding out how it all ended, after all.
It''s not that the story isn''t gripping, or the narrative well plotted - it''s just that there are SO MANY books about wicked wizards and malign sorcerers, inimical gods and wronged apprentices that I''m all epiced out, I think. I''ll release this down the road, and hope someone else is in the mood for it - I''m clearly not.

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