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Might and Magic: The Sea of Mist
Rising up from the unstoppable Sea of Mist -- a magical void carrying armies of bloodthirsty undead to every land it touches -- a champion fights his way toward destiny. Trained since infancy in the arts of war, magic, and the secret sects of the rouge, Praz is unwilling to accept a single skill in the magical towers of The Order. Long denied the truth about his unknown past, he seethes with anger, rejecting convention as he leans toward darkness. But the foul slaying of his life-long mentor and the abduction of his only love have drawn Praz out beyond the citadel's walls for the first time in his life to undertake an epic rescue. Traveling through a world distorted by the Sea of Mist and hounded by a mysterious clark lord, Praz slowly begins to unravel his past. Along the way he's joined by warriors from multiple dimensions, battles demonic brothers, and confronts the most terrible foes of two lowly servants who've somehow stumbled upon the power of gods.
- GenresFantasy
336 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 1, 2001
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Mel Odom
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aka Jordan Gray
Mel Odom is a bestselling writer for hire for Wizards of the Coast's Forgotten Realms, Gold Eagle's Mack Bolan, and Pocket's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel book lines. His debut SF novel Lethal Interface made the Locus recommended list . The Rover was an Alyx Award winner. He has also written a scientific adventure of the high seas set in the 19th century entitled Hunters of the Dark Sea. He lives in Oklahoma.
aka Jordan Gray
Mel Odom is a bestselling writer for hire for Wizards of the Coast's Forgotten Realms, Gold Eagle's Mack Bolan, and Pocket's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel book lines. His debut SF novel Lethal Interface made the Locus recommended list . The Rover was an Alyx Award winner. He has also written a scientific adventure of the high seas set in the 19th century entitled Hunters of the Dark Sea. He lives in Oklahoma.
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April 23, 2020
The story so assumes the presence of (nonexistent) sequels that it fails to tell something complete and satisfying in itself. Prax-El is clearly a Chosen One of some flavor (Strawberry Potential Godhood, it looks like...either that or Rum Raisin), and the mystery both consumes vital page count and crowds out potentially-interesting features.
This is a shame because there are setting concepts that I really wanted to hear more of: the Six Shards are the pieced-together fragments of worlds destroyed in war, and despite close reading of the description and explanation I couldn't figure out if this is a nation, a geography, or the world itself, or how the magically-isolated shards themselves physically relate.
This is a shame because there are setting concepts that I really wanted to hear more of: the Six Shards are the pieced-together fragments of worlds destroyed in war, and despite close reading of the description and explanation I couldn't figure out if this is a nation, a geography, or the world itself, or how the magically-isolated shards themselves physically relate.
August 31, 2018
Might and Magic: The Sea of Mist unfortunately is the first entry into a series that was never completed. So we'll never know what happens to Praz-El, and maybe that's just okay. It's also unfortunate that as a Might and Magic tie in novel, it doesn't really share any overlap with the video games.
Plot wise, it's kind of fine. Evil necromancer attacks a school. Two dudes pursue godhood. Main character doesn't know his past, is awesome at stuff, and avenges his surrogate father. All that is fine. The novel feels surprisingly quick and rushed for being 300 pages long, where it almost feels like deus ex machina mechanics help guide Praz-El to the final confrontation, but that's whatever. Character development is something this book is kind of lacking - a lot of characters are introduced and killed off fairly quickly, really leaving Praz-El as the only one to have any development. Maybe the novel kept trying to build up a party of characters to quest with Praz-El, similar to what happens in the games, but it just never felt very successful. I guess Lissella wins for the next amount of development after Praz-El, but even she felt a little one-dimensional at the end.
Overall, this book is a quick read, but the fact that it's the first book in a series that was never continued means you should only read it if you are a huge fan of Might and Magic or just really, really want to read a sword and sorcery novel.
Plot wise, it's kind of fine. Evil necromancer attacks a school. Two dudes pursue godhood. Main character doesn't know his past, is awesome at stuff, and avenges his surrogate father. All that is fine. The novel feels surprisingly quick and rushed for being 300 pages long, where it almost feels like deus ex machina mechanics help guide Praz-El to the final confrontation, but that's whatever. Character development is something this book is kind of lacking - a lot of characters are introduced and killed off fairly quickly, really leaving Praz-El as the only one to have any development. Maybe the novel kept trying to build up a party of characters to quest with Praz-El, similar to what happens in the games, but it just never felt very successful. I guess Lissella wins for the next amount of development after Praz-El, but even she felt a little one-dimensional at the end.
Overall, this book is a quick read, but the fact that it's the first book in a series that was never continued means you should only read it if you are a huge fan of Might and Magic or just really, really want to read a sword and sorcery novel.
September 22, 2020
Really wish there was a sequel.
November 8, 2015
As a child, I used to be a big fan of the video game series, so I read the book as a tribute to that. However, it makes for fairly bad reading, I'm afraid.
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