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I loved THE DEED OF PAKSENARRION. When I saw this paperback in my local bookstore, I looked forward to visiting Paks's world again. A book that picked up where the old trilogy left off was likely to be entertaining and Elizabeth Moon is a master at creating suspense as well as fine characters.

I wasn't prepared for a book that I could hardly put down. Paks, the heroine of the last series, is here but playing a minor role. The book focuses on Kieri Phelan, the newly crowned king of Lyonya, and his concern that his country is ill-prepared to fight a war brewing on its borders.

It follows the adventures of Jandelir Arcolin, a mercenary captain suddenly elevated to lead the whole company.

And it shows the struggles of Dorrin Verrakai discovering late in life that she has illegal magic powers. She must face down her own family and root out the evil they have visited upon the realm of Tsaia.

To those who have read DEED, these will be familiar names, but Moon takes us into their minds and hearts. All these people are approachable in a way that the deeply spiritual Paksenarrion was not--they are warriors, not saints. What they share in common is that each has been elevated far beyond their expectations, each has a sharper sense of evil now abroad in the world and each has had Paksenarrion's shining example to inspire them. The three books of THE DEED OF PAKSENARRION traced the arc of the flung stone; this book shows the ripples spreading out from the center.

Expect high adventure, dark magic and people forced to grow into greatness...epic fantasy of the highest caliber! This book is both a continuation of the series and a renewal...Highly recommended for fantasy fans.


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Oath of Fealty Elizabeth Moon 9780345508744 Books Reviews

Oath of Fealty is the first book in a new fantasy series by Elizabeth Moon that will be a sequel to her beloved fantasy epics The Legacy of Gird and The Deed of Paksenarrion. The story centers around Paladin Paksenarrion's former commanding officers Duke Kieri Phelan, Captain Jandolir Arcolin, Captain Dorrin Verrakai, and Sergeant Stammel, and the changes that take place in their lives as a result of knowing her. Kieri is now king of Lyonya, a kingdom shared by men and elves; his co-ruler is his eleven grandmother. Captain Arcolin has been made a Count and overseer of Kieri's former domain by King Mikeli of Tsaia. Captain Dorrin, long estranged from her family, is made a Duke by King Mikeli and overseer of her family's domain; most of her relatives have been arrested for treason. The novel follows each character's progress as they accept their new position. (Since this is a fantasy novel, the chapters are rife with magic and supernatural powers, some possessed by the main characters and some by elves, gnomes, or dwarves.) Duke Phelan had made his fortune for many years as a mercenary for hire, so Arcolin follows in his footsteps by taking the troops south to Aarenis, and is hired to hunt for brigands preying on traveling merchants. At the end of one campaign, Sergeant Stammel is invaded by an evil Verrakai spirit and blinded. Dorrin, meanwhile, discovers she possesses the old magelord magic - long forbidden in Tsaia - and uses it to roust out more of her evil relatives, to dismantle magical traps set throughout the family estate's buildings, and to save King Mikeli's life. She is sentenced to death for using magery, but King Mikeli spares her life.

I have read every book Elizabeth Moon has written (both fantasy and science fiction), and this new novel follows her expected tradition of excellence. The main characters have great depth; each possessing strengths, weaknesses, doubts, good and bad habits, interesting skills, and faith (or lack of) in their particular legendary saint or god. The story framework alternates between exciting adventures/encounters and ordinary, but engrossing, everyday routines set in the fantasy world Moon has created. Although this new series will be able to "stand alone," I feel that a new reader will have a better feel for the setting and the characters if they at least read The Deed of Paksenarrion trilogy first. I definitely recommend Oath of Fealty as an interesting and exciting novel to read.
I've never read Moon before, so I came at this book without the background of the earlier Paks series.

The book kept me interested enough to read it, which is why it gets 3 stars. But truly, I kept wanting this book to be better, to be more mysterious, to present more *conflict* and tension about what was going to happen to the characters, but that just never developed. To be honest, the book felt a little "workmanlike", as if the author had to put out another book and went through the motions of producing fantasy, but was a little tapped out in terms of truly interesting plot. To her credit, what she does, she does relatively well; but I'm curious as to whether her earlier books showed more passion and fire.

Most of you have probably read plenty of Moon before, so the following is probably old hat Moon presents a distinctly military approach to writing. She is listed in the book as an "ex marine", and she clearly seems to relish drawing on that background, taking great pains to lay out command and control structures, the life of someone in the military (adjusted to a fantasy setting of course), etc. That's fine you have to write what you know. I don't find it particularly compelling myself, but I do at least appreciate the fact that here we are dealing with someone who knows what they are talking about. So many fantasy authors romanticize and fantasize warfare and armies without having any concept of the reality behind them.

Where the book falls down for me is that everything is just *too easy* for the main characters, particularly Dorrin. I think the most glaring example of this is that this woman, who has never known anything about magic and who has followed a religion that bans magic, is basically handed super magic powers with nothing more than a page or two of discussion about how they were "awakened" and then trained. From that point on, she is a virtual wrecking ball of magic, effortlessly outdueling entire legions of magic users, magic users who had gained their abilities from hideous human sacrifice rituals. What did Dorrin do? It's like the author needed to find a way to make Dorrin safe from her magic enemies, could think of nothing else, and just decided "hey, she is just a natural magician". Dorrin does not need to learn to control her very powerful magic, there is no cost to her in using it, she does not need to take time to cast spells but instead it just instantly jumps to her use. What fun is that? Go read, say, Stephen Donaldson's White Gold Wielder for an example of the kind of strain and sacrifice a protagonist must endure to have any access to their magic power.

You know what this is like? It's like playing a first-person shooter with the "invulnerable" cheat codes on. Sure, when you're 12 you think it's fun to be able to go through the world infinitely powerful and invulnerable, but it quickly loses its charm because there's no *drama*.

And that's what this book lacked for me drama. I never felt like there were any real conflicts (the notable exception being the demonic possession of the sargeant in the southern story). Time after time, the protagonists wanted to do something and immediately proceeded to do so. The southern captain wanted to defeat brigands, and everything he did just worked. He was able to manipulate bankers, he was able to outwit bandits and win battles, all seemingly too easy. The protagonists all feel like they have "cheat codes" on.
I loved THE DEED OF PAKSENARRION. When I saw this paperback in my local bookstore, I looked forward to visiting Paks's world again. A book that picked up where the old trilogy left off was likely to be entertaining and Elizabeth Moon is a master at creating suspense as well as fine characters.

I wasn't prepared for a book that I could hardly put down. Paks, the heroine of the last series, is here but playing a minor role. The book focuses on Kieri Phelan, the newly crowned king of Lyonya, and his concern that his country is ill-prepared to fight a war brewing on its borders.

It follows the adventures of Jandelir Arcolin, a mercenary captain suddenly elevated to lead the whole company.

And it shows the struggles of Dorrin Verrakai discovering late in life that she has illegal magic powers. She must face down her own family and root out the evil they have visited upon the realm of Tsaia.

To those who have read DEED, these will be familiar names, but Moon takes us into their minds and hearts. All these people are approachable in a way that the deeply spiritual Paksenarrion was not--they are warriors, not saints. What they share in common is that each has been elevated far beyond their expectations, each has a sharper sense of evil now abroad in the world and each has had Paksenarrion's shining example to inspire them. The three books of THE DEED OF PAKSENARRION traced the arc of the flung stone; this book shows the ripples spreading out from the center.

Expect high adventure, dark magic and people forced to grow into greatness...epic fantasy of the highest caliber! This book is both a continuation of the series and a renewal...Highly recommended for fantasy fans.