Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Son of Avonar by Carol Berg. Magic is forbidden throughout the Four Realms. For decades, sorcerers and those associating with them were hunted to near extinction. But Seri, a Leiran noblewoman living in exile, is no stranger to defying the unjust laws of her land.
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Mass Market Paperback , pages. Published February 3rd by Roc first published More Details Original Title. The Bridge of D'Arnath 1. Other Editions 9. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
To ask other readers questions about Son of Avonar , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Jan 08, Liz rated it liked it. I have to give Carol Berg credit for her female protagonist. Seri is in no way your typical fantasy heroine. She's neither young nor blond, she's not virginal or a doormat.
She's a middle-aged widow who's borne a child. She's cynical and she shows her age. But on the other hand, there's D'Natheil. He's nothing more than a childish bully fo I have to give Carol Berg credit for her female protagonist.
He's nothing more than a childish bully for more than half the book. I realize that there was a reason he acted that way, but it didn't make him any less annoying.
There's very little attractive about a "hero" who gets needlessly violent and then sulks or pouts and throws temper tantrums when he doesn't get his way. It actually gets worse when the "secret" of his past is revealed.
Instead of feeling happy for both he and Sari, I had much more of a, " Out of the blue, it seemed, we're presented with this fact and expected to accept it. I didn't buy it. And it seemed like a complete dues ex machina, even with Dassine's explanation at the end. Supposedly this whole thing was foreshadowed by Sari "reacting" to D'Natheil, but that still makes no sense.
I, and I imagine many other people, just assumed that she was finally moving on from her husband's murder. I thought that's what was happening here. What it actually turned out to be, well, that made very little sense. One of the book's other main problems is in the beginning. Nearly every other chapter was a flashback to Sari and Karon's life together.
This is one case when I would actually advocate telling instead of showing. The constant, prolonged flashbacks may have set the stage for later events, but they badly broke the narrative and took away from what was happening at the present time. And they were boring. Dry, dull and after a while, I just started skimming them until the book got back to the interesting parts of what was happening in the present.
What those flashbacks were there to do could have easily been accomplished with a few well-placed paragraphs in the present, maybe a remembrance of Sari's or something in the narrative. Anything but what was actually done. I'm still willing to give this book three stars despite those glaring faults, mainly because the first person narration of Sari 's made up for D'Natheil's dreadful characterization and once those awful flashbacks were out of the way, the story flowed well.
Particularly near the end where it raced its way towards the climax. That was very well done. I doubt this is a book I'd read a second time through or actually recommend to anyone, but I've read many worse.
May 13, JG rated it it was amazing Shelves: best-heroes , favorites , made-me-cry , high-fantasy , best-great-romance , drama , magic , heart-wrenching-sad-poignant , forbidden-love , kings-and-queens.
This book made me weep as I have never weep in all 16 years of my existence. For yet another time, I realized what a great talent and a pen could do to twist and weave words until they become as painful and as vivid as reality itself.
The Son of Avonar was the reason why I was still awake at dawn, my eyes red and puffy and mountains of used tissue paper lay on the side of my bed. Never have I read greater love an This book made me weep as I have never weep in all 16 years of my existence.
Never have I read greater love and loss than the story of our heroine. Maybe I have but Carol Berg, bless her mind, have a great skill in making the readers walk through a painful torture and still ache and long for the next. My God, this is one talented author. From the first page until the last, I was bewitched and so enchanted I could barely look up from my ebook reader. I would sing praises about this book forever if the author asks me too!
I have felt nothing but sorrow and anticipation as I scroll down a page to the next. Ms Carol Berg is one of the rare authors I know that can work time shifts between the past and the present so well that I was as thrilled to read about the past as I am to know about the present. I never liked time shifts. I don't care much about the past and what author would really think that it's as exciting as the present?
This book proved me wrong. Just as I was getting so into the past, the present takes in and I'm again hooked.
I was like a fish being dangled into two hooks. You don't just have to read it, you want to read it. They are both so interesting! The hero was, my God, a real hero! Is it so bad to want him for myself? And the heroine, no matter how much I envision myself in the heroes arm, they just fit each other. At the end of the book, I just want to get inside the story and chain them to each other forever. Oh such love! Reality, thou art a cruel, unfair bitch. Where do you suppose I can get a man like that?
The Son of Avonar is the true definition of an Epic Fantasy and I thank Carol Berg for making me weep buckets of tears and shredding my heart into pieces like no one and nothing have ever before. Mar 08, Thomas rated it really liked it. Welcome to the Four Realms, a land where magic and sorcerers are myths used to frighten children. The novel centres around the protagonist Seri, a disgraced noblewoman now living in exile.
Her quiet life drastically changes when an unknown man unable to speak stumbles across her home. Having now finally completed it, I am pleased to say I was not disappointed. The novel thoroughly deserves the good Welcome to the Four Realms, a land where magic and sorcerers are myths used to frighten children.
The novel thoroughly deserves the good ratings I had seen prior to finishing it. I think this was helped by the fact the entire novel was from her first-person perspective. I particularly enjoyed the flashback chapters concerning her time at court. A very entertaining read with the only slight downside being that the novel was a little slow at times, mostly in some of the adventure and journey chapters A map would have been helpful as well.
Therefore, I will give it 4. I look forward to reading the rest of the quartet. View 1 comment. May 18, Reader of Books rated it liked it. Not as good as some of her other books I loved. Oct 23, Shannon rated it really liked it Shelves: fantasy , This is the first Carol Berg book I've read, but after finishing this last night I know it won't be the last. First I have to finish this quartet!
The Lady Seriana has exiled herself from all she knows and all she is accustomed to, though with good reason and no hesitation. Her husband Karon was brutally tortured and murdered for being a sorceror, and all their friends too.
The only reason she was not also burnt at the stake was because her brother Tomas, the best friend and Champion of King Evar This is the first Carol Berg book I've read, but after finishing this last night I know it won't be the last. The only reason she was not also burnt at the stake was because her brother Tomas, the best friend and Champion of King Evard, has done that much for her.
He did, however, murder her new-born baby. After all this tragedy, getting as far away from the city is the least she can manage. After ten years spent quietly at a cottage in the country, eating what she can grow, wearing the same clothes every day, her peaceful existence is shattered by the appearance of a man, naked and injured, mute and without memory, running from the King's lieutenant Darzid and the soulless Zhid who come from another world.
Grudgingly, she helps him, discovering enough to make her sure he is not a horse thief, and soon steps over the line from helping him to get rid of him to activily choosing to assist him, determined that this man would not go the same way as Karon. But what she learns about the man's origins opens up a whole new sleigh of questions, and creates in her a cruel hope. Son of Avonar is told from Seri's perspective, and jumps back and forth in time as she tells the story of her past and what happened to Karon - whose fate we learn early on - and the "present day" and her journey with the stranger.
This is the perfect way to tell this story, and I don't think a linear narrative would have worked at all. It's also very important to know about Seri's past in understanding her present. She's a strong, intelligent woman who uses her skill with words where others use brute force. The world Berg has created here is very real. It's also very cruel - but that, too, is a part of the story. I had the same feeling of tension I felt while reading Outlander , caused by the knowledge that awful things do happen to these people, that friends are enemies and love can be split asunder.
It's not that the plot is complicated - it's not, though it is original and extremely well dished out - but the characters are what drive the story.
There's rather a lot of detail, again like Gabaldon it makes me impatient, especially towards the end. However, it's rarely superfluous, so I couldn't skip any or I would lose the plot. My main quibble is that, in telling the story of Seri's past and how she met and came to love Karon, and their short marriage before he is discovered, I would have liked more evidence. It's not that I doubt their love, I just wanted to feel it.
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