Sky Rider

Spellmonger Cadet, Book 3

By: Terry Mancour

Narrated by: Finty Williams

Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins

Publisher's summary

Lady Lenodara of Westwood, called the Hawkmaiden - Dara, to her friends - has had an adventurous life: She tamed a falcon when she was 12, learned she had magical talent, discovered that she had a natural aptitude as a beastmaster, won her witchstone at the first Spellmonger’s Trial, became the junior apprentice to Minalan the Spellmonger, Magelord of Sevendor, mastered the ancient magic of the Thoughtful Knife, fought goblins and a dragon, and was made a noble and richly rewarded for her heroics. Now that she’s safe back home in Sevendor, everything should go back to normal...right?

But a secret project with the Alka Alon Emissary, Ithalia, leads Dara to new troubles and adventures, as the Hawkmaiden assumes new responsibilities. Lady Ithalia wants to use magic to transform her falcon, Frightful, into a giant, so that she and other giant hawks can defend the Five Duchies against dragons in the air. Each hawk is to be ridden by a Sky Rider to aid the fight - and Dara is to be the first.

When Minalan purchases 20 hawks and hires a falconer to aid her efforts, Dara is tasked with building a mews to house them in the Westwood...and encounters her most difficult opponent yet: her father.

Hawkmaiden vs. Master of the Wood, father vs. daughter, Castle Folk vs. Woodfolk, Dara has to choose sides and made compromises in order to see her task completed without bothering the Spellmonger.

But fighting a dragon seems simple compared to challenging the Master of the Wood in his own land. With bandits milling around Sevendor and the threat of exposure for the giant falcon project, Dara has to learn new skills and understand an entirely different kind of magic if she’s to become the first Sky Rider!

©2018 Terry Mancour (P)2019 Podium Publishing

good read, short book

Excellent book, story and narration but much shorter than Mancour's other books. a little disappointed

great story; started at series end tho.

Audible suggested this book but finding the others in the series has been unnecessarily complex process.
loved the deep lore and the characters.

the story keeps getting better

each twist, each new character not only add more intrigue and joy. But now a much clearer understanding and explanation of how this is possible... even to the point of believability.

Another wonderful Spellmonger book

The Cadet series is a worth addition to the Spellmonger series and takes up the story of the Youngest Apprentice of the Spellmonger amazingly. well written and fanstastically voiced this series is a must read for modern fantasy fans.

A Great Listen!

I love how the series develops all the different characters and not just the main ones. You get a great feel for the story development and the twists and turns that affect how the books move on and brings you in over and over!

great

love the voice actress, and clarified other event from other books. it was a great book

The weakest of the three part series

Parts are just silly, wanders well into youth / teenage fiction. But as backstory it serves a purpose. Flinty does a good job.

great

I really loved it. Can't wait for the next book to come out. next

Not a bad ending for this particular side story.

Hawk Maiden was decently interesting
Hawk Lady had me yawning once or twice, but decent enough.
Sky Riders was the best of the series, in my opinion.
Overall a decent side story series.

Good story, narrator wasn’t right

I really enjoyed the content of the book but I don’t think this narrator was the right, like fit the way that the other narrator from the spell monger series depicted Darrah and the narrator also mispronounced some of the names and some of the words and so it was distracting from the overall enjoyment