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The Blight of Muirwood
The Blight of Muirwood
The Blight of Muirwood
Audiobook13 hours

The Blight of Muirwood

Written by Jeff Wheeler

Narrated by Kate Rudd

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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An evil queen and a deadly plague threaten to destroy the kingdom of Muirwood.

Rising from her humble beginnings as a lost orphan of Muirwood Abbey, Lia is summoned to return as the Abbey’s protector and special guardian for Ellowyn Demont, the lost heir of the fallen kingdom of Pry-Ree. After the death of the ruthless king at the battle of Winterrowd, the great Aldermaston and Abbey leader calls on Lia to use her mystical talents to save Muirwood from two new threats—a vengeful queen accusing the Aldermaston of her husband’s death, and a deadly plague threatening to destroy the land. Amidst the turmoil, a battle ensues, and soon Lia learns the world’s magic has begun to falter. As a blanket of dread envelops the Abbey, hopes are tested and Lia will be forced to come to terms with a secret that will change her life forever.

Revised edition: This edition of The Blight of Muirwood includes editorial revisions.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJan 15, 2013
ISBN9781469251011
The Blight of Muirwood
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Jeff Wheeler

Jeff Wheeler is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Harbinger and Kingfountain series, as well as the Muirwood, Mirrowen, and Landmoor novels. He took an early retirement from his career at Intel in 2014 to write full-time. He is a husband, father of five, and devout member of his church. He lives in the Rocky Mountains and is the founder of Deep Magic: The E-Zine of Clean Fantasy and Science Fiction. Find out more about Deep Magic at www.deepmagic.co, and visit Jeff’s many worlds at www.jeff-wheeler.com.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Wow! This book has it all suspense, intrigue, lies, hidden agendas, battle, a little romance, and sadly death. Great character development, storyline, and plot.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Such a good read! Keeps you on your toes the whole time.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    It WAS EPIC. I can't get enough of Jeff wheeler's books!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I LOVE these books - they're so intriguing and awesome. I really enjoy the story lines and the characters.

    It sucks me right in and I have a hard time putting these books down at all. I also love that these are clean books without any questionable material in them like I often find in other books that cause me to stop reading them.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Summer 2018, Whispersync Audiobook & Kindle Books:

    I blow straight through Wheeler's trilogy in what amounts to a little more than a book a day, so these are all going to end up running together.

    I rather loved Lia's story, and getting to both read and listen to it. I love the Maston magic (even if it did ring a little too close to The Fountain from his most recent series I had picked up and run through). I loved Colvin's wandering, plodding uncertainty about everything, especially his feelings. I loved that this love story didn't end up looking like anyone of the clearly too-alike earlier ones in the Fountain Head double trilogy.

    I mourned the descent of this gorgeous, glorious culture of virtues and faith as the handholds for real magic, and how the forcing of it was what spurned the world into blackness (which is in the reverse to what interests me about its centuries later follow-up trilogy). I believe people will enjoy these and run them rather fast. The characters are engrossing. The story goes everywhere, and I am left with a very clear feeling and idea of what this world looks like, and the fact its out there still living on, even though I'm no longer at the fire listening to its tale being told.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    It's alright, but I'm having a hard time relating to the characters. Also, the religious overtones are too much. I am fine with religious themes, but this is done in such an intrusive way. It's just obnoxious. I much prefer his Kingfountain series.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Wow! This book has it all suspense, intrigue, lies, hidden agendas, battle, a little romance, and sadly death. Great character development, storyline, and plot.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Second installment of this series. The highly religious overtones from the first book have definitely carried over into this one. There was clearly a lot of inspiration drawn from the Free Masons to build the culture of the mastons. When the identity of the protagonist is revealed at the end of the book, it didn't feel as shocking as it should have as it was practically spelled out early on in the last book. I mentioned in my review of the first book that I had issues with some of the characterizations where the characters weren't necessarily behaving consistently but rather seemed to be written a particular way just to forcefully drive the plot forward and the same is true with this book. The dialog between characters is definitely still painfully drawn out - it almost feels like the author is using dialog to help readers "with the big words" if you catch my drift. I also don't like that the companion to the protagonist is prone to such flares in temper only for it to be resolved with essentially an "ah, well that's all right then". Since I'm this invested I'm going to give the last book a go.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The first book in the trilogy had a lot of promise, and I appreciate Wheeler being open to having religious references. Good characters, coherent world building, well paced story. This started out like the first - but then fell apart about half way through, during the maston ceremony. The problem is the genres got confused. Now, to be honest, the medium always had a hint of the force about it, so there was a little space opera thrown into this medieval fantasy - but the potential was there to make it something else. Out of the blue we morph into science fiction, with a hint of Stargate - trans world portals that bend time and space, and the story behind these is driving the action. From there to the end of the book it was almost like there were two stories at times - wanting to maintain the fantasy but then stretching to bring the science fiction back in. The characters were marred by this as well. As the world building fell apart, I lost interest in finishing the series.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    The second in the Muirwood trilogy. The flow isn't as quick and the rhythm is a little off; however, Wheeler is beginning to stretch his legs as an author. Lia continues her journey with a few twists along the way.