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Title	:	The Silver Gryphon (Valdemar: Mage Wars #3)
Author	:	Mercedes Lackey
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Reissue Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	March 1st 1997 by Penguin Putnam Inc USA (first published 1996)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction

The Silver Gryphon (Valdemar: Mage Wars #3) Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

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A dozen years of peace have passed in the city of White Gryphon - providing well deserved and much needed security for the people who had lost their homes in the magical Cataclysm which killed the Mage Urtho, creator of the gryphons. But the inhabitants of White Gryphon have not forgotten their long struggles, and have trained an elite guard force, the Silver Gryphons, to protect their city, and if necessary, to join with the army of the Black Kings for mutual defense.

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Original Title:	The Silver Gryphon
ISBN:	0886776856 (ISBN13: 9780886776855)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Valdemar: Mage Wars #3, Valdemar (Chronological) #3, Valdemar (Publication order) #17 , more

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3.5 starsA solid fantasy novel, set in Lackey's Valdemar world. A young gryphon and his friend and partner, a young human woman, find themselves in trouble. Through courage and ingenuity, they get themselves out of trouble. It reads well, but nothing outstanding. As one reviewer already said - an extended road trip story.

I usually greatly enjoy Mercedes Lackey's novels, but this one was pretty much lacking a plot. A girl and a gryphon head off to a new duty station, get diverted (crash), and the rest of the novel is about them trying to get through a rain forest, pursued by a mysterious enemy, while their families finally figure out they are missing and put together a rescue. There was a lot of slogging through forest, what's out there, how do we defend ourselves, more slogging... oh, did I mention they were

Slow, boring, a complete disappointment compared to it's two predecessors.

Mercedes Lackey is one of my all time favorite authors and I've been reading her work for well over 20 years. The Black Gryphon is one of my favorites and I don't mind The White Gryphon too badly, but The Silver Gryphon was close to travesty. It was full of "my family doesn't understand me" teen angst, the usual youngling arrogance presuming they're smarter/better than their elders regardless of their total lack of experience, and heavily experienced characters reduced to wimpy cardboard



Where the first book in this trilogy is pure fantasy and the second book is more of a murder mystery, the final book is more like the classic tale of survival. Now, this is a reread for me like the first two were, but once again I started to look at this book a little more broadly. It is definitely a fantasy book, but it's so much more that that. This books is the most personal of the three of them, simply because it's main focus is on two individuals throughout most the of the book. You are

All of the books in this trilogy have been extremely different from each other. This one instead of focusing on Skan and drake focuses on their children who after many years of peace in the city of White gryphon are struggling to define themselves as a separate and worthy people and out from under the shadow of their legendary fathers. Their fathers meanwhile are shown primarily as parents, somewhat overbearing and unable to comprehend the pushback theyre getting from their kids. Tad and