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Riverdale, N.Y. : New York, N.Y. : Baen Pub. Enterprises ; Distributed by Simon & Schuster, 1991.
Description
The tiny kingdom of Yurt is the perfect place-or so it seems-for someone who barely managed to graduate from the wizards' school, especially after all that embarrassment with the frogs. But Daimbert, newly hired Royal Wizard of Yurt, senses an evil spell at work. But who could be responsible? The beautiful young queen? Her flighty aunt? The dour chaplain? The old, retired Royal Wizard, who seems to know more than he's saying? Or someone from out of the castle's past? Daimbert quickly realizes that finding out and saving his kingdom may take all the magic he never learned properly in the first place, with his life the price of failure--good thing he knows how to improvise!
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LibraryThing member zsms
I'm generally fond of this series. The characters are well constructed - neither too happy go lucky nor too angsty, though this was some of my first exposure to characters with psychological trauma as a kid. The plot and world are entertaining.
LibraryThing member SimonW11
What strikes me about this series is the religion. At times you could be reading any book on Catholic or High Church teachings. after the moraland ethical vacuity of so much modern, fantasy where even the good guys seem to inhabit a slough of moral relatissm. It is a bit of a shock. , The plot is
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Original publication date
1991-08-01
Physical description
314 p.; 18 cm
ISBN
0671720759 / 9780671720759
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Wizard of Yurt, 1
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