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| The Lord-Protector's Daughter (Corean Chronicles) | 
 enlarge | Author: L. E. Modesitt
Publisher: Tor Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 5588
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0765321637
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780765321633
ASIN: 0765321637
Publication Date: November 11, 2008 (New: This Week)
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Product Description
The Lord-Protector’s Daughter is a standalone fantasy novel that takes place in Tempre, the capital city of Lanachrona on Corus, the world of Modesitt’s Corean Chronicles.
Mykella, the eldest daughter of the Lord-Protector of Lanachrona, discovers that someone is diverting significant sums of money from her father’s treasury. One of the ancient soarers appears to Mykella, telling her that she must go to the antique stone Table in the cellars of the Palace and find her Talent in order to save her land and her world.
From there, matters become more perilous. There are attempts to remove Mykella and her sisters from Tempre by marrying them off to lords in neighboring lands, and fatal and near fatal accidents occur to members of her family and trusted retainers. While Mykella develops a solid idea of who stands behind it all, every attempted solution is used to discredit her. How can she save their father and land?
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 terrific sidebar Corean investigative fantasy thriller November 11, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Since the vile Ifrits were defeated by Mykel and Rachyla, they and their descendents have ruled as the Lord Protector over Lanachrona and its neighbors. However, when leadership is past by hereditary, the Talent does not necessarily follow until one would be hard pressed to compare the current Lord Protector to Mykel.
Her father the Lord Protector plans for his daughter Mykella to marry a foreign royal in a political marriage. However, she wants much more than to be a pawn so she spends her time evaluating the accounts at the Finance Ministry where she notices a significant drop in tariff collections. She interviews traders, who insist they have paid more not less. She continues her investigation into the stolen gold, but soon some of the clerks she interrogated are murdered. Though fearing for her life and that of her loved ones, Mykella keeps digging trying to find proof for her father to take action.
This Corean investigative fantasy thriller is a terrific sidebar tale that fans of the saga will enjoy and newcomers will find as an intriguing entry. The story line is shorter than the usual L.E. Modesitt, Jr. tome, but is incredibly fast-paced and action-packed. The amateur sleuth inquiries by the courageous heroine make for an enjoyable refreshing novel.
Harriet Klausner
 Boring November 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While I have always enjoyed L E Modissitt's novels, the Cyador doulogy and the Spellsong Cycle, are my favorites. However, I have also enjoyed the Recluce and Corean Chronicles. I had hoped this would continue with what happened to Dainyl and Mykel from SOARER'S CHOICE. It did not.
This story is set 500 years after the end of SOARER'S CHOICE. I still looked forward to reading it.
Mykella is one of three daughters of the Lord Protector. All of the daughters have been raised to know they will be wedded to leaders selected by their father. Mykella is very smart, she helps with the tariff's and she feels that something is not right, so already she is searching the ledgers for discrepancies. She uncovers a plot by her Uncle to unseat her father. About this time she is contacted by the Soarers who are watching over the Ifrit table in Tempre.
The rest of the book tells of her trials to learn to use her Talent. Then she must confront the conspiracy by herself, as her father does not believe her when she tries to warn him about his brother. She must also face the Ifrit in the table. The sense of her helplessness pervades most of the novel. I got very tired of her inability to accomplish anything, she never even plans anything until the last few pages.
However, if you are expecting any action or adventure you can forget it. I finally reached the point of wishing the worst would go ahead and happen. This is a short novel, only 284 pages and this did not allow our author to add any action scenes except for the last few pages. I do not feel it is worth the money. I wanted abit of action and even abit of romance. I was very disappointed.
The Lord Protectors Daughter was an excellent book to read November 13, 2008
This is a tough book to place in LE Modesitt's universe, but the Lord-Protector's Daughter is an interesting if not as action packed as his previous books. There is the standard intrigue, the standard story lines of interfamilial issues, and of course being married off for politics rather than love or even liking the person. It is never easy being the daughter of a person in power. What is interesting and this is what really makes the book is the interplay of ambition, ability, and the full knowledge that no matter what Mykella (The daughter) does, she will never realize those ambitions, and may not ever be able to truly work and explore her abilities.
Short on action and violence, long on the despair of Mykella, and how she must work and find it within herself to rise above the situation to realize who she is, and what she wants to be, or the situation starts to cast itself towards a destiny that looks more hopeful than bleak. She gets a warning, and must work on her psionic power to save herself and her family from the general treachery that is a standard plot element of Modesitt's work. While the treachery is predictable (we all knew this was coming), the use of talent, and Mykella's steadfast duty to her friends and family sets this book up in the general orbit of a good Modesitt book.
With this being a general reoccurring theme in Modesitt's work, the struggle to find out what you are, who you are, and overcoming at times fantastic odds, this plays on the previous works and fits in nicely with the Corean series that this derives from. Overall, this is a well-written book and highly enjoyable yarn. You start caring for Mykella throughout the book, and want her to succeed when everything it at its bleakest. The ending is a bit short, not the usual ramp up, but just as exciting and action packed as only Modesitt can write.
Excellent book, very enjoyable to read, started caring about the lead character in the book, five of five stars.
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