It’s an adult-based fantasy that can appeal to anyone old enough to read, but younger readers will also love these stories of magic, mystery, intrigue and battle.ĭeborah: I wasn't really thinking about Thrones, to be honest.
Like a mix of Rome, Harry Potter and Game of Thrones, this series is set in the Eternal City, but is a prequel, not a sequel. Celius was the first to use magic to fight magic, but he has made a fatal mistake, in that his strike at Amulius has made the sorcerer invulnerable to any magic, not just that of Celius. Another man, named Celius, is in a dangerous duel with another sorcerer named Amulius, who was his first victim. A man named Victor faces execution for killing a man who held a magic amulet, but he is saved by a young porter named Pylades, who returns the man’s amulet to its rightful owner. Lorelei, a sorceress, is a strong-willed woman who plucks men from the battlefield like ripe grapes, then ensnaring them in her web of sorcery. Terry Pratchett The Color Of Magic Torrent 'If you've never read a Discworld novel, what's the matter with you?' Guardian 'Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own' The Times The Colour of Magic is the first book in the Wizards series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.Terry Pratchett The Color Of Magic Torrent And the whole thing's just a game of the gods that might send them over the edge. Unfortunately, their journey across the Disc includes facing robbers, monsters, mercenaries, and Death himself. Rincewind is the world's worst wizard who has just been handed a very important job: to look after the world's first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. Except for the fact that it travels through space on the shoulders of four giant elephants who in turn stand on the shell of an astronomically huge star turtle, of course. ' Somewhere between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a magical world not totally unlike our own.
It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination. NAMED AS ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 MOST INSPIRING NOVELS 'It was octarine, the colour of magic.
0 kommentar(er)
