![]() ![]() When he gets to leave that behind though, he seems to come alive. ![]() Emery clearly wasn't that interested in the whole Jedit Ojanen plot, and it showed in his writing. Clayton Emery must really have been reaching to find a way to fill the pages. So from the moment Johan runs into the western desert this novel has nothing to do the rest of the trilogy. Then she is defeated and (spoilers) will not play any role in the next book. The beginning sets up Johan's interest in Efrava and introduces Jedit to Adira's crew, but after that? Shauku says she has a book on the history of the cat-warriors, but that turns out to be a lie to lure Johan. This book steps it up even further, by making its entire second half a pointless divergence. Johan had a number of pointless divergences, like the island of slavers and the underground merfolk. Most of the good guys get out, and they head back home. It realizes it can't escape so decides to call down a meteor to commit suicide by crushing the entire building. The day is only saved when the wall of fire around the Cosmic Horror is breached, allowing its power to get out. Adira frees Johan, hoping the mage could tip the scales, but instead he just runs away. The good guys try to stop this, but Shauku is simply to strong. Furthermore, she has imprisoned Johan in an Amber Prison next to the Horror to suffuse him with its knowledge and power, planning to use him as a puppet to conquer Jamuraa for herself. She doesn't have a library, but an imprisoned Cosmic Horror which she uses to gain otherworldly knowledge. They eventually find Shauku's lair, the Caverns of Despair, in a forest called Arboria, but her story turns out to be a trap. (Sometimes at the cost of another few members of the Circle.) Johan leaves behind some minions to stop his pursuers, but those are all defeated. Jedit, Adira and her Circle of Seven follow, wanting to end the threat of Johan once and for all. Johan goes back to Tirras to gather a crew, and then sets of to find this library. There he has a vision of a pretty lady named Shauku, who claims to have a book on the origin of the tiger-warriors in her library. Everyone chases after the evil wizard, who flees into the western desert. They and their friends manage to subdue Jedit and reveal the truth to him about his father and Johan. They eventually arrive in Bryce, where Johan tricks Jedit into trying to kill Adira Strongheart and Hazezon Tamar. But the mage escapes, and with some lies about having fought side by side with Jaeger he convinces Jedit to come along with him back to the human realms. While this goes on Jedit's mom has a vision about the Prophecy of None, One and Two, which convinces her that Johan must be imprisoned. Using some sorcery Johan manages to convince the tigers not to kill him, and he is allowed to wander the Efravan oasis accompanied by Jedit and his friend Hestia. Now his drake crashes at the edge of the desert and Johan is saved from being eaten by sand wurms by Jedit Ojanen, the son of Jaeger. At the end of last book Johan set of east across the Sukurvian Desert on the back of a drake to look for Efrava, the home of the tiger warriors. ![]()
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