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| This is a really good book . You really get into the read. Full of mind blowing action scenes and really great moments . I highly recommend this to my peers ! Down below i will provide a quick summery and the required blog task. |
Summary for you who might be interested in the trilogy.
I am currently reading the trilogy Westmark By Lloyd Alexander. The Grand master of fantasy .
It is a complicated and politically dangerous period in Westmark. The country's ruler, King Augustine the fourth, has slipped into A spiraling depression and illness since the supposed death of his only child.
Despite the efforts of the Queen, Caroline, and the court physician, Dr. Torrens, the King is manipulated by his chief minister Cabbarus, who wants the throne for himself. While the ill king is kept distracted by a series of fortune tellers who claim "to be able to speak to his dead child," Cabbarus increases his control over Westmark, restricting freedoms and abusing the king's powers. Young Theo, an orphan, has been raised by a small town printer named Anton. After the pair accepts a job from a travelling salesman they are investigated by Cabbarus' men, who declare their job illegal and then destroy their press. In the chase, Theo attacks a soldier and Anton his mentor is shot and killed.
With no one else to turn to, Theo takes to the countryside, eventually meeting up with the men who hired him and Anton for the printing job: Count Las Bombas, a con artist, and his dwarf driver/partner Musket. Theo joins up with them, rather reluctantly, and ends up participating in their schemes. They eventually discover a girl named Mickle, a poor street urchin, who has a great voice.The Count convinces Mickle to help him out, dressing her up as the Oracle Priestess and putting her on display, claiming that she can speak to the spirits of the dead.
Theo, despite his growing affection for the bright Mickle, begins to find his new life too rotten and dishonest for his tastes and abandons the group, eventually falling in with Florian, an anti-monarchist and rebel who plans revolution with his band of loyal followers. Meanwhile, Mickle, Las Bombas, and Musket have been arrested for fraud,Theo plots to break his old freinds out of prison, with help from Florian and his allies.
Their reunion, however, does not last long; Cabbarus has tracked them down and has them all arrested!
What happens next? You might ask . Well you'll just have to read and find out the sketchy , twisted conclusion.
Despite the efforts of the Queen, Caroline, and the court physician, Dr. Torrens, the King is manipulated by his chief minister Cabbarus, who wants the throne for himself. While the ill king is kept distracted by a series of fortune tellers who claim "to be able to speak to his dead child," Cabbarus increases his control over Westmark, restricting freedoms and abusing the king's powers. Young Theo, an orphan, has been raised by a small town printer named Anton. After the pair accepts a job from a travelling salesman they are investigated by Cabbarus' men, who declare their job illegal and then destroy their press. In the chase, Theo attacks a soldier and Anton his mentor is shot and killed.
With no one else to turn to, Theo takes to the countryside, eventually meeting up with the men who hired him and Anton for the printing job: Count Las Bombas, a con artist, and his dwarf driver/partner Musket. Theo joins up with them, rather reluctantly, and ends up participating in their schemes. They eventually discover a girl named Mickle, a poor street urchin, who has a great voice.The Count convinces Mickle to help him out, dressing her up as the Oracle Priestess and putting her on display, claiming that she can speak to the spirits of the dead.
Theo, despite his growing affection for the bright Mickle, begins to find his new life too rotten and dishonest for his tastes and abandons the group, eventually falling in with Florian, an anti-monarchist and rebel who plans revolution with his band of loyal followers. Meanwhile, Mickle, Las Bombas, and Musket have been arrested for fraud,Theo plots to break his old freinds out of prison, with help from Florian and his allies.
Their reunion, however, does not last long; Cabbarus has tracked them down and has them all arrested!
What happens next? You might ask . Well you'll just have to read and find out the sketchy , twisted conclusion.
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