The best of the three

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	• The White Gryphon (Mage Wars) Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon DAW, 1996 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 22 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

fell apart

I bought the Silver Griffon and Black Griffon together last year. Good books but both fell apart before I was done reading them.

The best of the three

I'll begin by saying this is the first Mercedes Lackey book I ever read, 10 years ago. I quite enjoyed it, as it was an original and creative work with likeable charachters and villans. For example, it is not the standard fantasy (our team of heroes must save the world) plot, but rather a murder mystery, and while I realize that is not everyone's cup of tea, as someone who enjoys mysteries and fantasy, I thought this was a fine marriage of the two genres. The Haighlei culture was interesting and original, and it was nice to see a fantasy author look beyond medieval European history for inspiration. And finally, I liked that the villans, particularly Hadanelith, because they had motivations and personalities. They presented a real and immanent threat to the main charachters, especially Skan and Drake. Weak enemies was actually my biggest beef with the other two books; the Wyrsa in Silver Gryphon were neat, but little more than monsters, and the villans in Black Gryphon were two-dimensional. I mentioned this was my first Lackey book, Silver Gryphon was my second purchase and it was good as an action/survival book but not as good. Black Gryphon, the one everyone says is so great, I hated, and vowed never to buy another Lackey book if Black Gryphon is what I can expect. I do respect the authors for having the versatility to write a mystery, a survival thriller, and a "chick book" all in one trilogy, though! In short, thank the gods I saw White Gryphon that day at Wal-Mart and decided to give it a chance. It is truly the best of the series. I give it four stars, mainly because I was still in high school when I read it; I have nostalgic attachent, and it might not have the same appeal to older readers.

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What a web!

Amazing storyline twists. I found myself holding my breath in hopes that they wouldn't all unravel! This is a brillant series.

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Rebuilding their city in the ten years after their ruler is killed, the people of Urtho establish the sanctuary of White Griffin, which is threatened when the envoys of the Black King tell them that the city is on their leader's land. Reprint.

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