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    The Silver Gryphon
    The Silver Gryphon
    The Silver Gryphon
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Silver Gryphon

    Written by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon

    Narrated by Gary Furlong

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A dozen years of peace have passed in the city of White Gryphon-providing well-deserved and much-needed security for the people who had lost their homes in the magical Cataclysm which killed the Mage Urtho, creator of the gryphons. But the inhabitants of White Gryphon have not forgotten their long struggles, and have trained an elite guard force, the Silver Gryphons, to protect their city, and if necessary, to join with the army of the Black Kings for mutual defense.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJun 4, 2019
    ISBN9781977332424
    The Silver Gryphon
    Author

    Mercedes Lackey

    Mercedes entered this world on June 24, 1950, in Chicago, had a normal childhood and graduated from Purdue University in 1972. During the late 70's she worked as an artist's model and then went into the computer programming field, ending up with American Airlines in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In addition to her fantasy writing, she has written lyrics for and recorded nearly fifty songs for Firebird Arts & Music, a small recording company specializing in science fiction folk music. Also known as Misty Lackey.

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    • 4/5
      This is the third and final entry in the 'Mage War Trilogy' (obviously!), and takes us a further ten or twenty years after the events of 'The White Gryphon' (favouring the latter, here). Unlike the pevious couple of books this doesn't deal with Great Events - no great evils to be faced down, but we arestill facing the fall out of the Mage Wars that had led to the establishment of White Gryphon.Silverblade and Tadrith, human and gryphon respecively, daughter and son of the great Amberdrake and Skandranon respectively and both recent graduates of the Silver Gryphons' training programme found themselves scheduled to a disant outpost where they could be out of the oversight of their illustrious parents.Both youngsters knew that Outpost 5 was risky but they'd supplied themselves for all the risks they could imagine. Just a pity that they hadn't anticipated the area of null-magic that meant Tad wouldn't be able to keep he basket holding Blade and their supplies up in flight. Their crash left both injured and with no magical tools, incuding the teleson that could have told the people back home of their fate. Nad then there was what ever had caused that null-spot. Especially when it appeared to be after them!Most of the book describes the flight of Tad and Blade through the jungle as they try to make their escape. It's a mixture of a survivalist adventure and horror, the latter gradually growing as the nature of the creatures chasing the youngsters becomes clearer.
    • 1/5
      As much of a mess as The Black Gryphon is, The Silver Gryphon is worse. OK, it actually has a plot, but it's just terrible. Part of the problem is that it's fundamentally a teenagers-leave-the-nest story, and I find those generally pretty unbearable. (Hell, I often find teenagers pretty unbearable.) The familiar characters are turned into one-dimensional overprotective parents up until the last fifteen pages, and the bulk of the book involves excruciatingly tedious accounts of trekking through jungle.

      There's also no real villain - there are some dangerous and intelligent (although not necessarily sapient) animals, and there is a bunch of teenage "Dad just doesn't understand me!" whining. And rain. Lots of rain.

      I like Lackey primarily for her painstaking construction of cultures to explore ethical issues. This book doesn't have any of that. It just has rain.
    • 3/5
      This is the third novel in Lackey's Gryphon series, so if you haven't already you should read The Black Gryphon and The White Gryphon first. This book is centered on two children of the central characters of the first two books: Tadrith and Silverblade. I think they're not as interesting as their fathers, Skandranon and Amberdrake, nor is the plot as engaging as the first two books; there are dull spots, I think because for much of it Tadrith and Silverblade are stranded by themselves, with little interaction with others. This particular novel dragged for me I'm afraid, I rather had to push myself to finish it, and I didn't feel the pay off was worth it. Lackey is actually a favorite author of mine, with books I've read again and again--fantasy comfort food. But this isn't one of her stronger books (or trilogies). If you've never read her before, don't start here. If this was your first novel by her, don't judge her by it. Try Arrows of the Queen or Magic's Pawn or Joust before you decide she's not for you.
    • 4/5
      Funny - for all the straight-forward action-adventure in this one, it is basically a psychological study on parents and children. Skan and Amberdrake handle their children entirely differently, and equally badly. There's a lot more about gryphons and gryphon society, K'Leshya society (which is, by then, White Gryphon society), even a bit more about the Haighlei Empires. Little Windsong and Skan and Zhaneel's gryphlets are suddenly people, with all kinds of complex emotions and reactions and motivations - some of which set up the adventure. I found the adventure itself rather flat - I hate horror and refuse to regard this in that light, so it's just crash, run away, find place to hole up, final fight, yay rescue (with the last two kind of mixed up). It could be quite horrific (hunted through the jungle by unseen enemies!), but if I regarded it that way I wouldn't ever read the book. And it does have a happy ending, with many of the emotional dislocations solved or at least strongly abated. And as usual Skan realizes (yet another) new role, or new level of role, that he can and should fill. There are some very neat bits - Judeth and Aubri realizing how much of a problem the disappearance is, for one - but overall it's kind of flat. Which means it's only good, not wonderful like most of Lackey's books.
    • 3/5
      This ending to the series is better than the 2nd book and not nearly as good as the first. The characterization has improved but there are still whole chapters that feel like filler, and not well-written filler. I was relieved it was over.