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Liane Merciel

Autor von Dragon Age: Last Flight

16+ Werke 530 Mitglieder 23 Rezensionen

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(eng) Liane Merciel is a pen name.

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Werke von Liane Merciel

Dragon Age: Last Flight (2014) 169 Exemplare
Der Krieger und der Prinz (2010) 168 Exemplare
Nightglass (2012) 55 Exemplare
Nightblade (2014) 37 Exemplare
Hellknight (2016) 30 Exemplare
Certainty (2010) 7 Exemplare
Blacktalon (2023) 3 Exemplare
Roadwarden {short story} (2021) 2 Exemplare

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Geschlecht
female
Nationalität
USA
Wohnorte
Alaska, USA
Germany
South Korea
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Ausbildung
Yale University
College of William & Mary (Law School)
Berufe
state prosecutor
attorney
Hinweis zur Identitätsklärung
Liane Merciel is a pen name.

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In many ways I feel its unfair of me to review this book. The concept is interesting, and I certainly wanted to enjoy it since it promised all sorts of gray morality fun, but in the end it didn't deliver. It should say something that I felt the worst for Leferic, who's intentions were fine and meant for the good of his Kingdom's people, but who went way overboard in his methods. I mean he went from a simple assassination plot to a conspiracy that wiped out an entire village and then just kept growing worse by the minute. And I'm not sure 'dark ambitions' is entirely appropriate since he had the same ambitions any second son of a feudal lord would have--to be the feudal lord.

Also his brother, the heir apparent, sounded like a colossal idiot, so I can't really help but think Leferic had the right idea in assassinating him and taking his position. Whereas his brother may have been helpful as brute force and PR, he didn't think things through nor care what much happened to anyone unfortunate enough to fall in with his plans.

You had the righteously good (Sir Kelland), the mostly good (Brys), the unbelievably evil (the Maimed Witch), the misguided (Bitharn) and then...Odosse, the peasant girl who left her village at the right time and had the misfortune to then run into Brys on her way back. The two extremes were easy enough to keep track of--they stayed true to their alignment without fail, but everyone else was harder to keep track of. Plans changed so often my head swam. Bitharn, the misguided childhood friend of Sir Kelland who stayed beside him to protect him at all costs, can almost single-handedly be blamed for a lot of bad things. Odosse,who shows a lot of pluck and promise at first, had an annoying habit of questioning everything everyone said, claiming she'll do the opposite of what is the better choice and then changing her mind over something inconsequential.

Merciel seemed to have wanted to set this up as an epic in the making, but it doesn't hold up well. Motivations aren't fully explored, multiple characters could have been interchangeable and plot threads were useless and misleading.
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lexilewords | 9 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 28, 2023 |
loved it very good ending cliffhanger!
 
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MandiPandi | 9 weitere Rezensionen | Sep 9, 2023 |
Killing time at Weisshaupt, a young elven mage uncovers a manuscript from the Fourth Blight that reveals the Faustian bargain made by the Grey Wardens and their fabled griffons.

I have a low bar for Dragon Age tie-ins generally, but even so, I think Last Flight is an excellent novel, full of bleakness and casual brutality ("Knight-Liutenant Diguier had died a few weeks earlier..."). I would happily read the author's other novels.
 
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proustbot | 6 weitere Rezensionen | Jun 19, 2023 |
De los libros que he leído sobre Dragon Age, este sin duda es el más flojo de todos, lo que me produce mucha pena porque tiene pinta de que el tema de los grifos y su reaparición estará contado de algún modo en el cuarto juego; y a lo mejor vemos mencionada a Valya o incluso aparece.
No he conseguido conectar con los personajes, ni con las protagonistas, Valya e Isseya, y la historia podría haber dado mucho más de sí. Quizás ha sido demasiado narrativo para mi gusto.… (mehr)
 
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essuniz | 6 weitere Rezensionen | Jan 2, 2021 |

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