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| Original Title: | The Ancient Future: The Dark Age |
| ISBN: | 1874082286 (ISBN13: 9781874082286) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Ancient Future #1 |
Traci Harding
Paperback | Pages: 560 pages Rating: 3.92 | 2625 Users | 161 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Dark Age (The Ancient Future #1) |
| Author | : | Traci Harding |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 560 pages |
| Published | : | October 1996 by Voyager Online Australia (first published 1996) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Science Fiction. Time Travel. Romance |
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The white light surrounded her, exuding from the ground within the circle. The mist rose towards the sky to form a billowing cloud. From within the largest stone a ball of blue light steadily made its way towards her. Late one evening, a car accident leaves Tory - a daughter of a prominent history professor - stranded near a ring of stones in the English countryside. She resolves to spend the night at the sacred site; a black belt in Tae-kwon-do, Tory holds little fear for her safety... But across the vortex of time and space, she is being watched. The Merlin knows of the legend Tory is to become, and through the wisdom of the Old Ones, teleports her back to the Dark Age. Prince Maelgwyn of Gwynedd and his band of knights stumble across this mysterious woman dressed in jeans and a leather jacket. Believing she is the witch of the stones, they threaten to kill her. Rising to her own defence, Tory challenges the Prince's champion to unarmed combat. With her superior fighting skill she easily overwhelms the warrior, winning the admiration of the Prince, and changing the course of British history forever.Rating Epithetical Books The Dark Age (The Ancient Future #1)
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I feel kind of embarrassed to publish a positive review of this book because just about all the reviews of it on this site are negative. Everyone says its badly written, that the characters aren't developed, that they found the fake old English annoying etc etc etc. I feel like I'm probably about to lose everyone's respect but: I LOVED this book. (I should probably mention that I'm a teenager. Have I gained your respect again?)I agree it wasn't perfect- it actually took me a while to get into.Truly awful. Mary Sue, uh, I mean, Tory is at the same time conveniently one of the few modern speakers of early medieval Welsh, a black belt in martial arts - and a shallow, ignorant idiot who the author would have us believe is a great woman of destiny. The editing is terrible, but then, the manuscript probably started out worse (hard though that is to believe). There aren't many good places to go when you start out with an author capable of using, or misusing, two 17th-century English words
Okay... So I bought this book at a 50% off sale, and so I figured that I didn't have much to lose. Let's just say I was glad I didn't buy it at full price. I mean... to be fair, the story started off with a lot of potential and I really liked it... but when Tori was teleported into the Dark Ages, it began to drive me nuts. I didn't read the book properly... I did a mini translation in my mind when I read it. I'm sorry, but the dialect used when she visited the past drove me nuts!!!!!! There are
Take Outlander, remove all of its charm and character depth, add some martial arts and more than a few thee's and thou's and you have this book. Our protagonist is Tory Alexander, a 20th-century Australian woman who is a black belt martial artist, speaks an ancient language and is beautiful to everyone she ever meets. One night her car breaks down and she is forced to spend the night within a circle of standing stones. Thanks to some good old fashioned magic she is transported back in time to
Truly awful. Mary Sue, uh, I mean, Tory is at the same time conveniently one of the few modern speakers of early medieval Welsh, a black belt in martial arts - and a shallow, ignorant idiot who the author would have us believe is a great woman of destiny. The editing is terrible, but then, the manuscript probably started out worse (hard though that is to believe). There aren't many good places to go when you start out with an author capable of using, or misusing, two 17th-century English words
Let me start by saying this is very different to the kinds of books I've been reading recently. My partner is a big fantasy fan and has been pestering me to read it for a while, so when I left my book behind on a weekend together he handed me this in an instant.The writing was jarring at first, it felt clumsy and clunky, and I was rolling my eyes at the simplistic spelling it out and telling rather than showing approach. But I struggled on, and found that somewhere around the 100-200 page mark I
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