Valdemar: Collegium Chronicles: Foundation : A Novel of Valdemar (Series #1) (Paperback)

from Krumbs

This was an enjoyable new entry into the Valdemar series. Not something I would recommend to somebody just starting in the "world" of Valdemar mostly because portions of it were a bit confusing and not well followed-through. (Still point people towards the Arrows of the Queen or Last Herald Mage ...

from meghancochrane

Mercedes Lackey is terribly good at the upswing of a book - developing the protagonist, bringing in new characters, starting off with a great plot. But then she just lets everything fall apart and it's very anticlimactic. This is exactly how I felt with Foundation and Bardic Song. The characters ...

from LisaMaria_C

If you're already a fan of Lackey or her Valdemar books, this one will read like a dozen before it: a young person is abused and/or impoverished and escapes their desperate circumstances when they're chosen by a Companion (read, magical horse) and learns that as a result they will be trained to b...

from SunnySD

From literally working in a hole in the ground orphan Mags is Chosen and brought to the newly founded Collegium to learn to be a Herald. Although isolated from his peer group by his deprived childhood, Mags does make friends, among them some of the most powerful people in Valdemar. An interesting...

from stars_2z

Foundation: Book One of the Collegium Chronicles by Mercedes Lackey, the latest addition to the Heralds of Valdemar series, takes place during the first year of the newly created Heralds' Collegium. The newest Chosen, Mags, was an orphan forced to work in a mine finding "sparklies" along with oth...