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Traitor Spy Trilogy Collection
Traitor Spy Trilogy Collection Trudi Canavan 3 Books Set RRP: £ 25.97 Titles in the Set The Ambassador's Mission, The Rogue, The Traitor Queen
- GenresFantasy
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Published January 1, 2014
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About the author
Trudi Canavan
82 books6,667 followersTrudi Canavan was born in Kew, Melbourne, and grew up in Ferntree Gully, a suburb at the foothills of the Dandenongs.
In 1999 she won the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story with “Whispers of the Mist Children”. In the same year she was granted a writers residency at Varuna Writers’ Centre in Katoomba, New South Wales.
In November 2001, The Magicians’ Guild was first published in Australia. The second book of the trilogy, The Novice, was published in June 2002 and was nominated for the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel. The third book The High Lord was released in January 2003 and was nominated for the Best Novel Ditmar category. All three books entered Australian top ten SF bestseller lists.
The Black Magician Trilogy reached the international market in 2004, published by HarperCollins’ EOS imprint in North America and Orbit Books in the UK. The trilogy is now rated by Nielsen BookScan as the most successful debut fantasy series of the last 10 years.
Trudi’s second trilogy, Age of the Five, has also enjoyed bestselling success. Priestess of the White reached No.3 in the Sunday Times hardback fiction bestseller list, staying in the top ten for six weeks.
In early 2006 Trudi signed a seven-figure contract with Orbit to write the prequel and sequel to the Black Magician Trilogy. The prequel, The Magician’s Apprentice was released in 2009 and won the Best Fantasy Novel category of the Aurealis Awards.
In 1999 she won the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story with “Whispers of the Mist Children”. In the same year she was granted a writers residency at Varuna Writers’ Centre in Katoomba, New South Wales.
In November 2001, The Magicians’ Guild was first published in Australia. The second book of the trilogy, The Novice, was published in June 2002 and was nominated for the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel. The third book The High Lord was released in January 2003 and was nominated for the Best Novel Ditmar category. All three books entered Australian top ten SF bestseller lists.
The Black Magician Trilogy reached the international market in 2004, published by HarperCollins’ EOS imprint in North America and Orbit Books in the UK. The trilogy is now rated by Nielsen BookScan as the most successful debut fantasy series of the last 10 years.
Trudi’s second trilogy, Age of the Five, has also enjoyed bestselling success. Priestess of the White reached No.3 in the Sunday Times hardback fiction bestseller list, staying in the top ten for six weeks.
In early 2006 Trudi signed a seven-figure contract with Orbit to write the prequel and sequel to the Black Magician Trilogy. The prequel, The Magician’s Apprentice was released in 2009 and won the Best Fantasy Novel category of the Aurealis Awards.
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December 31, 2020
i have no memory of this
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October 23, 2018
Eh.
Grateful for the continuation but I can't pretend these gripped me anywhere near as much as TBMT.
Some bullet points because I'm lazy:
-Dannyl's story was the highlight for me, and felt the most consistent both in terms of a follow up from the last books, and just in the general sense of writing/plot/characterisation. The changing tension in his relationship with Tayend felt plausible, well-rounded and real, as did his fling with Achati, and the unfortunate yet inevitable way it ended. TBH I think when it gets down to it, gay magical archeologist will simply never stop delivering for me.
-Roet was an interesting concept but Skellin was awful. Literally from the chapter he's introduced everything about him practically screams "I KILLED YOUR FAMILY" and yet nobody even suspects him until the end of the first book. It also seems totally contradictory that the Guild would only begrudgingly spare a magician or two to track Skellin and Lorandra, two trained rogue magicians who are actively murdering people, when the whole plot of The Magician's Guild revolves around the entire city being thrown into chaos by the mere existence of a slum girl with released yet unusable powers. Maybe I'm just pissed off because if they'd done their goddamn job, Cery wouldn't be fucking DEAD.
-Cery is fucking DEAD. WHAT the FUCK.
-Thieves? Yes. Lesbians? YES. Lesbian thieves?!?!? Incredible. Groundbreaking. Revolutionary 👌👍💪🙌
-Sonea irritated me throughout the books though I'm struggling to pinpoint why exactly. Her resourcefulness and practicality in the original series seems to have devolved into narcissistic levels of self-doubt and internal bickering. Maybe it's not an unrealistic character development considering her world since the invasion has been confined to the pettiness and social isolation of Guild life, but it's disappointing. I wanted to see her finally come into her own and feel comfortable kicking ass & taking no shit.
-I didn't want to dig Sonea/Regin but I totally do, sorry.
-The open-ended question about guns in the epilogue was weird and unsettling. It didn't break my sense of immersion exactly, but it almost hinted at an eventual turn towards modernity which I just don't want to think about in regards to this world. Magic VS Technology will always be an interesting avenue of thought though.
Grateful for the continuation but I can't pretend these gripped me anywhere near as much as TBMT.
Some bullet points because I'm lazy:
-Dannyl's story was the highlight for me, and felt the most consistent both in terms of a follow up from the last books, and just in the general sense of writing/plot/characterisation. The changing tension in his relationship with Tayend felt plausible, well-rounded and real, as did his fling with Achati, and the unfortunate yet inevitable way it ended. TBH I think when it gets down to it, gay magical archeologist will simply never stop delivering for me.
-Roet was an interesting concept but Skellin was awful. Literally from the chapter he's introduced everything about him practically screams "I KILLED YOUR FAMILY" and yet nobody even suspects him until the end of the first book. It also seems totally contradictory that the Guild would only begrudgingly spare a magician or two to track Skellin and Lorandra, two trained rogue magicians who are actively murdering people, when the whole plot of The Magician's Guild revolves around the entire city being thrown into chaos by the mere existence of a slum girl with released yet unusable powers. Maybe I'm just pissed off because if they'd done their goddamn job, Cery wouldn't be fucking DEAD.
-Cery is fucking DEAD. WHAT the FUCK.
-Thieves? Yes. Lesbians? YES. Lesbian thieves?!?!? Incredible. Groundbreaking. Revolutionary 👌👍💪🙌
-Sonea irritated me throughout the books though I'm struggling to pinpoint why exactly. Her resourcefulness and practicality in the original series seems to have devolved into narcissistic levels of self-doubt and internal bickering. Maybe it's not an unrealistic character development considering her world since the invasion has been confined to the pettiness and social isolation of Guild life, but it's disappointing. I wanted to see her finally come into her own and feel comfortable kicking ass & taking no shit.
-I didn't want to dig Sonea/Regin but I totally do, sorry.
-The open-ended question about guns in the epilogue was weird and unsettling. It didn't break my sense of immersion exactly, but it almost hinted at an eventual turn towards modernity which I just don't want to think about in regards to this world. Magic VS Technology will always be an interesting avenue of thought though.
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