The High Lord

Pages: 656
Published: 2004
Language: English

Sonea, a street-girl adopted by the powerful Magician's Guild, finds herself caught in a dangerous conspiracy that threatens to destroy her world. After witnessing a dark secret and receiving a dire warning from the enigmatic High Lord Akkarin, Sonea begins to question everything she thought she knew. Is Akkarin truly trying to save them, or is he manipulating her for his own sinister agenda?

Prose complexity: 4/10

Tense Mysterious Adventurous

Chosen One Academy

Fantasy High Fantasy YA Fantasy Young Adult

Trudi Canavan

Trudi Canavan is an Australian fantasy author, born in Melbourne and raised in the suburb of Ferntree Gully. She worked as a graphic designer and for the magazine Aurealis before writing full time. Her debut, The Magicians' Guild (2001), began the Black Magician trilogy, followed by the Age of the Five trilogy, the Traitor Spy trilogy and the Millennium's Rule series. She won the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story in 1999 and for Best Fantasy Novel in 2009 with The Magician's Apprentice...