Wizard at Large (Magic Kingdom of Landover, #3)

by Terry Brooks

Ben Holiday, the High Lord of Landover, is back in his rightful place. The evil wizard Meeks has finally been dealt with, and all seems at peace. But, even in a Magic Kingdom, peace never lasts long...It was all Questor Thews' fault, whether or not the inept Court Wizard wanted to admit it. His bumbling attempt to return Abernathy, the Court Scribe, from the body of a dog to his original human form, resulted in the Scribe disappearing from a magic circle, to be replaced by a multi-coloured bottle. The bottle looked familiar to Thews but he couldn't quite remember why. More importantly, so it seemed, Abernathy had been wearing the High Lord's medallion, the loss of which curtailed Ben's powers drastically; and Abernathy had come to rest in a castle on Earth belonging to Michel Ard Rhi, son of the old High Lord, and Scribe's sworn enemy...

• ISBN10: 0708883117
• ISBN13: 9780708883112
• Publish Date: 7 December 1989 (first published 1 January 1980)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 11 September 1992
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Orbit
• Edition: New edition
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 291
• Language: English

Reviews

[charlton]

Really liked the book,it focuses more on a couple of surrounding characters.The main character(Ben Holiday)does have to go back into his old world which does make for some good and entertaining reading.

[layawaydragon]

This is now getting very old. The series uses all the stereotypical fantasy tropes, is very predictable and uninspiring. However, I thought the books were okay because it was light, easy, made fun of itself and more serious fantasy books and was at least enjoyable. The series isn't making enough fun of itself and making light as much as before, which leads it to be tedious. It's not very involving. I don't actually care about any of the characters because they are mostly just caricatures of common tropes. After three books, it's really sad that it's hard or impossible to connect to the characters.

It's easy to see where the story is going, even if you can't pin point it exactly (which you usually can in this series). Very frustrating wanting to scream at the characters since you can see what's going to happen and where they should go, but instead are dragged along an uninspiring, boring trip that could have been fun and light bogged down by the author's delusions of a grand adventure.

It's so involving and doesn't grip at all. It's so easy to just put this book down and forget about it. No worried about forgetting any important details because there aren't any to remember.

I'm only going to read the 4th book because I'm the type of person who hates leaving things unfinished. There are literally only a handful of books I've stopped midway or series I haven't seen through to the end. If this series continues as is, I suspect this series will be added to that short list.