Mages Blood, David Hair
Mages Blood, David Hair
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Mage's Blood

Author: David Hair

Narrator: David Hair

Unabridged: 26 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/02/2014

Synopsis

David Hair is the award-winning writer of two young adult fiction series, The Aotearoa and The Return of Ravana (based on the Vedic epic The Ramayana). Mage’s Blood, the first volume of a series called The Moontide Quartet, is Hair’s first work of adult fantasy. In a starred review of Mage’s Blood, Publisher’s Weekly said, “This multilayered beginning to the Moontide Quartet plunges readers into a taut network of intrigue and mystery that tightens with each chapter. Hair portrays a stark and beautiful world breaking apart, with both good and evil characters desperate to reshape it through magic, war, and treachery. This strong debut should draw in fantasy readers of all stripes.”Most of the time the Moontide Bridge lies deep below the sea, but every twelve years the tides sink and the bridge is revealed, its gates open for trade. The Magi are hell-bent on ruling this new world, and for the last two Moontides they have led armies across the bridge on "crusades of conquest." Now, the third Moontide is almost here, and this time the people of the East are ready for a fight…but it is three seemingly ordinary people that will decide the fate of the world.

About David Hair

David Hair is the award-winning writer of two YA fiction series, the Aotearoa (set in New Zealand) and The Return of Ravana (based on the Vedic epic The Ramayana). Mage’s Blood is his first work of adult fantasy and the first in his brand-new Moontide Quartet. Hair was raised in New Zealand, and after briefly settling down in Britain and India and then traveling the world, he now lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Petrik on April 10, 2020

The first half of Mage’s Blood challenged my patience, but the pay-off—and hopefully the rest of the series—in the second half was bloody rewarding. Urte is divided into two continents; Yuros in the West, and Antiopia in the East. Both continents are separated by impassable seas, but once every twelv......more

Goodreads review by Scott on February 07, 2017

A fantasy book with a lot of alternate historical fiction interwoven into the story line. Not in the case of characters but more time period. Elements of Europe, Middle Eastern and Northern African culture revolving around the Crusades. The corruption and colonization of an empire, the mythical 300......more

Goodreads review by Natalie on June 07, 2021

I read Mage's Blood due to a buddy hate-read I'm doing with my boyfriend. He has to read the Shatter Me series and I have to read the Moontide Quartet, a series that, according to him, constantly rewrites the rules of its own world-building at convenience. BUT, he emphasized, the first book isn't al......more

Goodreads review by Rusty's Ghost Engine on July 31, 2017

3.5 stars This was quite an interesting novel that introduced many different cultures and politics as well as a set of unique and flawed characters. I will say thought the things I found most interesting were the Moontide bridge and the close orbit of the moon … which makes the sea so rough it’s impa......more

Goodreads review by Angus on July 19, 2017

Wow... I picked this up based on the interesting premise and I'm so glad I did. Despite being 700 pages, I flew through it and that was down to the excellent pacing, as I never once felt bored. In short we follow three main characters - A training mage, a mercenary hired to spy on the royal family an......more

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