Dave Duncan Books: A Man Of His Word Series

By Tony Waza


These are books I've been reading for so many years. I've constantly been fascinated and intrigued by magic and magical powers. That is an excellent series about a boy who functions inside the stables of a castle in a far away kingdom. He is a friend and crush of the Princess Inos, who ends up getting kidnapped through a magic casement. He decides he has to save her and starts a journey to rescue her.

On his journey to seek her out, he realizes he loves her, while becoming the most powerful magic user on the planet! This is by no means a romance novel though, it is a wild ride from the start and is one of the most original fantasy adventure books I have ever read!! The magic is unique, the entire world it's set in is unique and the characters are unique. I always recommend this series to fantasy lovers.

Rap and Princess Inos lived in a tiny backwater kingdom known as Krasnegar, exactly in the middle of nowhere, where nothing considerable occurred because it was a peaceful realm. Princess Inos discovered she was to be sent towards the Empire to learn how to act like a proper a lady. While she was away the king fell ill and Rap's strange magical talents began to emerge. Rap struggled via goblin infested wastelands and a jungle to warn Princess Inos that she was required to claim her birthright. None knew it was a journey ordained by the gods long ago...

The next book in the series is called Faery Lands Forlorn. In it, Inos returned to her kingdom as her father dies, only to become kidnapped through the magic casement as the back water kingdom she loves is becoming a war zone. She is held prisoner in the desert by a crazy, old sorceress. Rap, having jumped to follow her by way of the magic casement, makes an effort to rescue the princess but finds himself in the steaming jungles of faerie, not in a desert! Rap is focused on rescuing his friend at any cost.

The next book in the series is called Perilous Seas. In it Rap continues his journey to find his best friend and lover. He is now armed with a magic word and new powers fuel his unwavering desire to locate his beloved, even as he sails with certainly one of the cruelest Nordland Raiders on a ship called the Blood Wave...

In the Emperor and Clown (the fourth book in the series "A man of his word"), Rap gets put in a dungeon and is sentenced to death. Inos becomes forced in to marriage with Azark and it seems Rap is hopeless to stop any of it. I must say this is by far the best book of the series. Rap beats impossible odds and even death. He is then asked to do something he can't by the gods themselves after he far more powerful then he wanted.




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