Reluctantly, he finds himself teaming up with a semi-senile turtle wizard a thieving, backstabbing otter and a bewildered Marxist dragon to rally an army for the war about to come.Bestselling science fiction writer Alan Dean Foster was born in New York City in 1946, but raised mainly in California. Here, when he plays a strange instrument called a duar, peculiar things happen-powerful magic that may be the only way to stop a dark force that threatens his new world-and his old one. But when a journey through an interdimensional portal lands him in a world of talking animals and ominous sorcery, he finds he is on a very different trip indeed. Jonathan Thomas Meriweather is a typical college student, interested in girls, music, and an occasional taste of reefer. Snatched through a portal into a land of magic, a young musician must use a mysterious, multistring duar to rescue the world into which he has fallen before he can return to his own. Spellsinger, the first in Alan Dean Foster's eight-book Spellsinger series, introduces a world of magic and mayhem, where animals are people and plunging ahead no matter what the consequences may be the only way to survive. Reluctantly, he finds himself teaming up with a semi-senile turtle wizard a thieving, backstabbing otter and a bewildered Marxist dragon to rally an army for the war about to come. Here, when he plays a strange instrument called a duar, peculiar things happen: powerful magic that may be the only way to stop a dark force that threatens his new world-and his old one. ( )Ī musician is transported into a land of magic-from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Trek Into Darkness.
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Overall, I'd say furries and fantasy fans alike would enjoy themselves as long as they are looking for fun and not something deep, so if you're considering, then give this series a go. It's cute, the use of scientific jargon as key magical terms, I'd just caution people not to take that literally in our dimension. This book was clearly a warm-up to the series. The story isn't very complex, mostly being about a group of people bonding to each other on a wandering adventure to save a magical version of Earth. Like most coming of age in a fantasy setting type books the main character is sometimes an annoying prick, but for all that I forgive him because he's an academic without much world hardening to him yet. This could turn off some readers, but I enjoyed his reactions.
I must admit that this story reads a bit like the dream of someone very high, probably because when you first meet our main character he is high. Despite some emotional turmoil in my life the past few days and a tablet whose app kept malfunctioning I was able to keep reading and finish in a relatively short amount of time. I really am a fan of anthropomorphic animal stories, and this one really did have something. I wouldn't say that this is my favorite fantasy world but it sure was fun. I read this one off of the advice of a coworker, and boy did he have me right.
A musician is transported into a land of magic-from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Trek Into Darkness.