Redoubt : Book Four of the Collegium Chronicles (A Valdemar Novel)

from AudraJean

Story was slow compared to most of the Valdemar books, I'm beginning to think the author is going to resort to a club to emphasize that "Mags is special". It wasn't a bad book but it definitely wasn't a great book. Will give the author one more book to round it up and then I'm done.

from zjakkelien

I'm an absolute fan of Mercedes Lackey and everything Valdemar. Still, I'm not in favor of the latest Collegium chronicle books. I find the stories have become thin and the characters are occasionally a bit too dysfunctional. Not in this last book, I have to admit. All the annoying disagreements ...

from lquilter

Sort of a filler in the Mags books -- all the stories / characters' arcs are advanced. We learn a little more about the details of Mags' mysterious background, but just details -- nothing substantive that wasn't telegraphed in the first three novels. Not much else going on.

from calmclam

Bastion is the final, and ultimately disappointing, installment of Mags's journey from mine orphan to Herald and spy. Most of the action takes place within a set of caves (the Bastion) where Mags and co. hole up to hide from Mags's would-be abductors, distant relations from his parents' country o...

from tehanu

Not one of her best but you're still going to read it if you're a fan of Valdemar. I was irritated in a couple of places where she actually COPIED parts of earlier novels to bring the reader up to speed on certain events/characters; it would have been much more interesting if she'd just summarize...