Start of a Trilogy

18 April 2010 by Bonnie.

Mercedes Lackey is one of my favorite authors, and I discovered a trilogy written by her along with James Mallory.
The Obsidian Trilogy, Book 1 “The Outstretched Shadow”\

Forbidden Magic!

There were three of them, very slender volumes bound in some fine-grained dark leather, with just a touch of gilt on the spine. Kellen found himself turning them over in his hands with some puzzlement. There was nothing on the spine of each but a single image - a sun, a crescent moon, and a star. Nothing on the cover, not even a bit of tooling -
Odd. Definitely out of keeping with the rest of the used bookseller’s wares.
The title pages were handwritten, not printed. The Book of Sun. The Book of Moon. The Book of Stars. He leafed through the pages, trying to puzzle out the tiny writing. The contents were handwritten as well . . . and seemingly dealt with magic.
They shouldn’t be here at all! Kellen through with a sudden surge of glee. Books written on magic were very closely kept. Without bothering to look through them further, he put them on the top of his pile and caught the stallholder’s eye.
“Got younger sibs at home, do you?” the man asked as he wrote up a bill of sale with the merest stub of a graphite rod.
“No,” said Kellen, startled. “Why do you ask?”
“Well, children’s stories-” the man gestured at the three books. He handed Kellen his receipt.
Kellen studied it in confusion. What was this? Tales of the Weald, Fables of Farm and Field, and Hearth-side Stories?
There was something very odd about those books.

This story follows Kellen, a young man not content living in the “Golden City” of the High Magick. And suddenly these strange books come to him…where will they lead him? This tale catches you from the very beginning, bringing you into Kellen’s life and his character. All the characters are intriguing, no matter if they are for the light or the dark…Only reading it will reveal the astonishing powers that influence his world!

I’ve read the first two of the trilogy so far (I plowed through the 856 page sequel in a matter of days) and I’m heading towards the third! These are so fantastic in the plot as well as every unexpected person you could experience!

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