Jedit

Magic: The Gathering: Legends Cycle #2

by Clayton Emery

Revealing the previously untold story of one of the Magic: The Gathering game's most popular characters, this book will give fans a glimpse into the history of the Magic universe and provide an alternative storyline to the current stories being told in the Invasion trilogy and the Odyssey Cycle series.

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy

310 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published December 1, 2001

About the author

Clayton Emery is an umpteen-generations Yankee, Navy brat, and aging hippie who grew up playing Robin Hood in the forests of New England.

He's been a blacksmith, dishwasher, schoolteacher in Australia, carpenter, zookeeper, farmhand, land surveyor, volunteer firefighter, and award-winning technical writer.

He's a member of the Mystery Writers of America and Science Fiction/Fantasy Writers of America.

Clayton lives with his sweetie in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where his ancestors came ashore in 1635.

From: http://www.claytonemery.com/CE_bio.html

Reviews

[Chip Hunter · Rating 3 out of 5]

While I continue to enjoy Clayton Emery's writing, this second volume in the "Legends Cycle" falls short as far as substance. Picking up where Johan left off, with the fresh-from-defeat Johan fleeing into the unknown following a vague notion of finding Jaeger's people, this book focuses on (you guessed it) Jaeger's son, Jedit. Basically, the entire book follows Jedit as he learns the fate of his father, then seeks revenge against Johan by joining Adira Strongheart's band and chasing Johan into unknown lands to meet unknown challenges, but hopefully to find and destroy Johan. If that sounds like a pretty vague and indeterminate storyline, that's because that is exactly what Emery serves up with this one. As with the previous book, JEDIT is full of excellent and fast-paced descriptive writing, good characters, and exciting battles. It just fails to tell a compelling and cohesive story as you never really get a good sense of where the book is going, why its going there, or what the outcome will be. The characters seem to have very little motivation for following the path they do, just tracking Johan from place to place until they end up in a mysterious ancient castle where they encounter the book's true villain (who has little to nothing to do with the rest of the series). In other words, this book just seems like filler between the 1st and 3rd books of the series. A decent book, but fails to fulfill its place in the over-arching storyline. Somewhat disappointing.