The Wizard Lord

Volume One of the Annals of the Chosen

By: Lawrence Watt-Evans

Narrated by: Shawn Saavedra

The Wizard Lord's duty is to keep the world in its delicate balance. He must govern lightly to protect his domain from power-hungry interlopers, such as certain wizards who previously fought to rule the world…but if the Wizard Lord himself strays from the way of the just, then it is up to the Chosen to intercede.

The Chosen ones are the Leader, the Seer, the Swordsman, the Beauty, the Thief, the Scholar, the Archer, and the Speaker. Each are magically-infused mortal individuals who, for the term of their service, have only one function—to be available to remove an errant Wizard Lord, whether by persuasion or by stronger means.

Breaker, a young man of ambition, has taken the mantle of Swordsman from its former bearer who wished to retire. Never did he realize that he would be called to duty so quickly, or that the balance of power in his world would be so precarious.

He had a duty to perform. A world to save.

So why does he still have doubts…not just about himself, but about the entire balance of power?

©2006 Lawrence Watt Evans (P)2022 Lawrence Watt Evans

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the reader was great!! loved the way he gave all the character their own voice best he could

What crosses the line between Wizard Lord and Dark Lord?

A nice fairly simple story about a group of heroes who are a deterrent to the Wizard Lord should they turn darkness.

At times the story gets deep into some philosophical issues. When does a Wizard Lord turn into a Dark Lord? What actions call for removal?

Exhausting

I’m a LWE fan but this book took forever to get rolling and exhausted my patience with redundant dialogue, overworked sympathies and sluggish plot. I appreciate the work LWE put into this but nothing like the pace or characters from his earlier works.