Traci Harding
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| Original Title: | The Ancient Future: The Dark Age |
| ISBN: | 1874082286 (ISBN13: 9781874082286) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Ancient Future #1 |
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The white light surrounded her, exuding from the ground within the circle. The mist rose towards the sky to form a billowing cloud. From within the largest stone a ball of blue light steadily made its way towards her. Late one evening, a car accident leaves Tory - a daughter of a prominent history professor - stranded near a ring of stones in the English countryside. She resolves to spend the night at the sacred site; a black belt in Tae-kwon-do, Tory holds little fear for her safety... But across the vortex of time and space, she is being watched. The Merlin knows of the legend Tory is to become, and through the wisdom of the Old Ones, teleports her back to the Dark Age. Prince Maelgwyn of Gwynedd and his band of knights stumble across this mysterious woman dressed in jeans and a leather jacket. Believing she is the witch of the stones, they threaten to kill her. Rising to her own defence, Tory challenges the Prince's champion to unarmed combat. With her superior fighting skill she easily overwhelms the warrior, winning the admiration of the Prince, and changing the course of British history forever.Particularize About Books The Dark Age (The Ancient Future #1)
| Title | : | The Dark Age (The Ancient Future #1) |
| Author | : | Traci Harding |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 560 pages |
| Published | : | October 1996 by Voyager Online Australia (first published 1996) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Science Fiction. Time Travel. Romance |
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Let me start by saying this is very different to the kinds of books I've been reading recently. My partner is a big fantasy fan and has been pestering me to read it for a while, so when I left my book behind on a weekend together he handed me this in an instant.The writing was jarring at first, it felt clumsy and clunky, and I was rolling my eyes at the simplistic spelling it out and telling rather than showing approach. But I struggled on, and found that somewhere around the 100-200 page mark IThis is a difficult review to write, because while I love this series to death, I enjoy it in the same way I enjoy the occasional bit of really bad television. I love these books, but honesty and objectivity compels me to admit that they're not very good.I'll be frank: the writing makes judicious use of purple prose and the editing is terrible, the storytelling is uneven and at times melodramatic to the point of ridiculousness, the drama is almost always contrived, the characters are all blatant
THIS IS MY ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE BOOK OF ALL TIME!!!!it makes me wish i had amnesia so i could read it again, for the fist time!the second book is really good too, but i don't particulary like the third and all the following books in the series don't even bother with.
My most favourite novel ever. EVER. For some reason no other book, fantasy based or otherwise has even come close to the awesomeness that this book oozes. I first read it at fourteen years old tucked under my desk in english class (I read it in class just to piss my teacher off).If I had to guess how many times I've read it since, it would be over fifty times. Set in the 1990's, Tory Alexander finds herself stranded on a quite English country road with a flat tyre. The rest is history. Traci
I don't think I can actually give this any stars. I'm far too conflicted lol. I read this when I was... 13(?) and absolutely loved it. It had a wicked strong female lead, magic, time travel, castles, romance, martial arts... It was like a shopping list of all of the things I found kick-ass as a kid, so of course I lapped this up.But is the story and writing actually any good...? Umm.. Well.. Probably not.However it did fire up my imagination, and push me to learn more about taekwondo and history
Read these series about twice a year just because I love these books so much. The story is amazing, the journey the characters are on is wonderful, and I still laugh, smile and cry... each and every time I read these books!
I dont want to give this book a rating because I only read the first third of the book, and it might have gotten better after that.What I didn't like:Firstly, the romance aspect of this book is understated in the blurb. The first part of the story is basically a romance novel. The blurb talks about the main character being an awesome fighter, so I really expected that to be the main focus of the story. I expected to like the main character more, but I just didn't.Character development was very
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