The Summer Palace

Volume Three of the Annals of the Chosen

The Annals of the Chosen (Volume 3 of 3)

Lawrence Watt-Evans

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All of the world is kept in a delicate balance under the supervision of the Wizard Lord. It is his duty to govern lightly and protect his domain…but if he should stray from the way of the just then it is up to the Chosen to intercede. The Chosen are the Leader, the Seer, the Swordsman, the Beauty, the Thief, the Scholar, the Archer, and the Speaker, magically infused mortal individuals who for the term of their service have only one function--to remove an errant Wizard Lord. 
 
But the new Wizard Lord has now changed the playing field by neutralizing all magic in his domain (both his own and that of the Chosen) and has successfully killed and/or blocked his adversaries and their challenges to his omnipotence. Sword (now on the run) must work alone to restore order to their fair land and unravel the mystery of the Ninth Talisman--which might be the salvation or downfall of all that is good in their well ordered land.

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The only land route out of Barokan was that path up the cliff to the Uplands. Escape by sea might be possible, but Sword was no sailor, and knew nothing of where he might find a ship, or where it might take him; he preferred to stay on solid ground. He had doubled back to Winterhome because it was the last place the Wizard Lord’s men would expect to find him, and because it was the only way to the Uplands.

Slipping into the town had been surprisingly easy.

It shouldn’t have been.

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David  rated it  
Mar 18, 2009
Another Watt-Evans-style story, with the hero trying to hide for an entire winter in an abandoned palace. Issues like food, water, warmth and light become as big a deal as killing the "evil" wizard. Worth reading if you like Watt-Evans; not a good place to start, though. ...more
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K. Axel  rated it  
Oct 12, 2008
I have loved these three books from the very start, I think perhaps, because they remind me slightly about the Obsidian Chronicles, which I absolutely loved.

Watt-evans creates a simple, yet strange universe with wizards, ler, small communities and a strange ruling system that has been us ...more
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Dan  rated it  
Dec 13, 2009
So the author invents this world in which W, X, Y and Z are true. The characters have some adventures and then realize that W is easy to fix, X was fundamentally a bad idea, Y would never have happened if all the world's magic users weren't paranoid idiots, and Z actually was false all along. So t ...more
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Lawrence Watt-Evans has written more than a dozen fantasy novels. He lives in Maryland.

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The Summer Palace
Volume Three of the Annals of the Chosen
The Annals of the Chosen (Volume 3 of 3)
Lawrence Watt-Evans

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Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Fantasy
August 2009
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ISBN: 9780765349033
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