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Sky Rider

Spellmonger Cadet, Book 3

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Sky Rider

By: Terry Mancour
Narrated by: Finty Williams
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Lady Lenodara of Westwood, called the Hawkmaiden - Dara, to her friends - has had an adventurous life: She tamed a falcon when she was 12, learned she had magical talent, discovered that she had a natural aptitude as a beastmaster, won her witchstone at the first Spellmonger’s Trial, became the junior apprentice to Minalan the Spellmonger, Magelord of Sevendor, mastered the ancient magic of the Thoughtful Knife, fought goblins and a dragon, and was made a noble and richly rewarded for her heroics. Now that she’s safe back home in Sevendor, everything should go back to normal...right?

But a secret project with the Alka Alon Emissary, Ithalia, leads Dara to new troubles and adventures, as the Hawkmaiden assumes new responsibilities. Lady Ithalia wants to use magic to transform her falcon, Frightful, into a giant, so that she and other giant hawks can defend the Five Duchies against dragons in the air. Each hawk is to be ridden by a Sky Rider to aid the fight - and Dara is to be the first.

When Minalan purchases 20 hawks and hires a falconer to aid her efforts, Dara is tasked with building a mews to house them in the Westwood...and encounters her most difficult opponent yet: her father.

Hawkmaiden vs. Master of the Wood, father vs. daughter, Castle Folk vs. Woodfolk, Dara has to choose sides and made compromises in order to see her task completed without bothering the Spellmonger.

But fighting a dragon seems simple compared to challenging the Master of the Wood in his own land. With bandits milling around Sevendor and the threat of exposure for the giant falcon project, Dara has to learn new skills and understand an entirely different kind of magic if she’s to become the first Sky Rider!

©2018 Terry Mancour (P)2019 Podium Publishing
Action & Adventure Fantasy Fiction Sword & Sorcery Dragons
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Brilliant but over too quickly!

Another great story about the hawk maiden. This book focuses on the emotions, politics and challenges our new lady and mage had to face to bring the sky riders to fruition. However, there wasn't as much detail on the creation of the unit nor learning to fly as I would have liked. Overall a good book that's over far too quickly.

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enjoy

Once again Terry has given us a great story. The cadet series enrich the Spellmonger Books, giving us a glimps into the apprenticeship of magic.

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Exciting adventure to end the series

Entertaining and engaging. Dara is growing up and finding her own wings. A good ending to the trilogy.

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The best of the trilogy!

Absolutely fantastic story, Finty’s performance is astounding as she takes us on Dara’s continued adventure!
I especially love the insights into Sevendor and learning about the clandestine missions Dara has been working on behind the scenes!
Giant hawks, mysterious floating orbs in an ancient Alkan city, a building project and bandits to thwart.
Skyrider has it all! Thoroughly enjoyable from start to finish!

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Thrilling adventure

This series has become a fast favorite recommend spell monger series too I don't have more than 15 words so fillingbin

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what a finish

what a great finish to a excellent set of books. I really enjoyed finding out all about the adventures of the hawk maddien

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Should have been a short story

I’m not entirely sure what the point of this book was. There were some interesting things but not near enough to make this a book. The whole story could have fitted into an epilogue. Very disappointing.

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Great back story, but less than successful narration

As with all TM’s books the storytelling is excellent, and while Finty Williams’ narration works very well for Dara, as the main protagonist, her delivery of almost all the other characters is sorely lacking.
It’s as if she did no research at all on the other characters’ own back stories from the other books and this manifested as wooden or inappropriate intonation of many of them (Rondal being a prime example)
All in all I enjoyed the book but felt let down by some of the narration.

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