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Kundala is Miina's world, created by that Goddess with the help of the dragons. But Miina is missing, and her people have been enslaved by the alien V'ornn. Now a savior has come, the Dar Sala-at, a messiah promised by prophecy yet unlike anyone's expectations: within the body of a beautiful young woman is the mind and spirit of a unique Kundalan female who is joined in mystical partnership with the mind and spirit of Annon Ashera, a V'ornn male, the last survivor of a noble family. Together show more the two adolescents have matured and merged into a new joint identity. Now their common destiny, and Kundala's, is in their own hands. In Lustbader's richly imagined saga The Pearl, magic and science clash on an epic scale. As in the Midkemia novels of Raymond Feist, the juxtaposition shows that neither is inherently good or evil. It is the people using magic or science who give them meaning, and Lustbader has created people you will never forget: Riane, the Dar-Sala-at; Eleana, the woman she loves twice over; Kurgan, the V'ornn usurper who raped Eleana and sired her child; Marethyn Stogggul, Kurgan's defiant sister, an artist who joins the Kundalan resistance; Marethyn's lover, chief trader Sornnn SaTrryn, who secretly helps the resistance as well; and the fabulous Krystren, the Sarakkon woman from the mysterious southern continent, who comes north on a secret mission and will change the lives of everyone she meets. All the while, the evil Sauromicians threaten the world as they seek to use banestones to bind a dragon. With each new volume, The Pearl has bloomed and ramified like a gorgeous flowering vine. The Mistress of the Pearl is the best yet, and those who have read the previous books will find new sources of excitement and enlightenment, but this is also a great place to begin catching up with the series, as the Pearl shines ever brighter. show lessTags
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I am not sure why I even bothered to read this series. Mr. Lustbader is so caught up in his fame he says he can't be bothered with a fourth book.
For what it was worth the third book in The Pearl series was a interesting read though I would not recommend all three books in a row, it tends to get tedious. Picking up where the second book left off we join our heroes still downtrodden but not lacking hope. With the deamons locked back up the group faces yet another set of evil who seek the knowledge of the dead city Za Hara-at .
For what it was worth the third book in The Pearl series was a interesting read though I would not recommend all three books in a row, it tends to get tedious. Picking up where the second book left off we join our heroes still downtrodden but not lacking hope. With the deamons locked back up the group faces yet another set of evil who seek the knowledge of the dead city Za Hara-at .
kind of left me hanging - especially after wading through the three books - there are a lot of unanswered questions
PEARL SAGA
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Eric Van Lustbader was born in Greenwich Village, New York City in 1946. He received a bachelor's degree in sociology from Columbia College in 1968. While still in college, he began work in the entertainment industry by creating his own music production company that included work with such bands as Cheap Trick, Mountain, and Blue Oyster Cult. He show more is a writer of both thriller and fantasy novels. He has written several series including The Pearl Saga Series, The Sunset Warrior Cycle, The China Maroc Series and The Nicholas Linnear/Ninja Cycle Series. He is also the co-author of the Jason Bourne series, starting with book 4, with Robert Ludlum. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Mistress of the Pearl
- Alternate titles
- The Cage of Nine Banestones
- Original publication date
- 2004-03
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- English, German
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- Paper, Ebook
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