A Princess of Landover

“Sweet, charming and skillful . . . an enjoyable journey, a helluva ride.”— January magazine    “Fans of Brooks’s magic kingdom of Landover will welcome this title. . . . There are plenty of treats.”— Publishers Weekly   “Fun and engaging.”— Kirkus Reviews Informationen zum Autor Terry Brooks  has thrilled readers for decades with his powers of imagination and storytelling. He is the author of more than thirty books, most of which have been  New York Times  bestsellers. He lives with his wife, Judine, in the Pacific Northwest. Klappentext NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "Sweet, charming and skillful . . . an enjoyable journey, a helluva ride."-January magazine Ben Holiday, mere mortal turned monarch of the magic kingdom of Landover, has grappled with numerous contenders for his throne, but nothing could have prepared him for the most daunting of challengers: his headstrong teenage daughter, Mistaya. After getting suspended from an exclusive private school in our world, Mistaya is determined to resume her real education-learning sorcery from court wizard Questor Thews-whether her parents like it or not. Then, horrified that a repulsive Landover nobleman seeks to marry her, Mistaya decides that the only way to run her own life is to run away from home. So begins an eventful odyssey peppered with a formidable dragon, recalcitrant Gnomes, an inscrutable magic cat, a handsome librarian, a sinister sorcerer, and more than a few narrow escapes as fate draws Landover's intrepid princess into the thick of a mystery that will put her mettle to the test-and possibly bring the kingdom to its knees. "Fans of Brooks's magic kingdom of Landover will welcome this title. . . . There are plenty of treats."-Publishers Weekly "Fun and engaging."-Kirkus Reviews Chapter One It’s All Happening  at the Zoo   The crow with the red eyes sat on the highest branch of the farthest tree at the very back of the aviary, dreaming its dark and terrible dreams. Had there been substance to those dreams, they would have scalded the earth and melted the iron bars and steel-mesh netting that held it prisoner. Had there been substance, they would have burned a hole in the very air and opened a passage to that other world, the world to which the crow belonged and desperately needed to return. But the dreams were ethereal and served only to pass the time and grow ever darker as the days wore on and the crow remained trapped. The crow was Nightshade, Witch of the Deep Fell, and she had been absent from Landover, trapped in her current form, for more than five years. She thought about it every day of her captivity. She sat on this branch, aloof and apart from the other birds, the ones that lacked the capacity for critical thinking, the ones that found some measure of happiness and contentment in their pitiful condition. There was nothing of either happiness or contentment for her, only the bitter memories of what had been and what might never be again. Her lost world. Her stolen life. Her true identity. Everything that had been hers before she sought to use the girl child of the King and Queen for her own purposes. Mistaya Holiday, Princess of Landover, was the child of three worlds—and of parents who knew nothing of what she needed or what she could become, who knew only to keep her from a destiny that would have made her the witch’s own. Even the sound of her name in the silent roil of the witch’s thoughts was like the burn of acid, and her rage and hatred fed on it anew. It never lessened, never cooled, and she was quite certain that until the child was dead or hers once more, it never would. She might be kept a prisoner in this cage for a thousand years and might never regain her true form, and still there would be no peace for her. In her tortured mind, the witch replayed the last moments of her old life, the way it had all been, had a...

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Sweet, charming and skillful . . . an enjoyable journey, a helluva ride. January magazine 
 
Fans of Brooks s magic kingdom of Landover will welcome this title. . . . There are plenty of treats. Publishers Weekly
 
Fun and engaging. Kirkus Reviews

Product details

• Authors: Terry Brooks
• Publisher: Del Rey
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.07.2010
• EAN: 9780345458537
• ISBN: 978-0-345-45853-7
• No. of pages: 381
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 175 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Del Rey Books; Landover-Saga; Landover-Saga; Landover; Random House Worlds
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy