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The Black Trillium
by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, Andre Norton
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Bantam Spectra (1991-06-01)
ISBN: 0553290797
EAN: 9780553290790
Dewy Decimal #: 813.54
Paperback: 503 pages
Edition: 1st PB
Release Date: 1991-06-01
SKU: 0709230060
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Like new condition. Case lid is broken. May have a sticker on the artwork or disk with the previous owners name or initials but does not affect use.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Ruwenda is a pleasant, peaceful land-but the magic of its guardian, the Archimage Binah, is waning. Binah must pass along her protectorship to the triplet princess of Ruwenda. She bestows upon the infant girls the power of the rare and mystical Black Trillium-badge of the royal house, symbol of an ancient magic. While the sisters blossom into beautiful young women, neighboring Labornok use a dark magician to sunder Binah's protection. As invaders pour into Ruwenda, the Archimage orders the princesses to flee-and changes them to search for three magical talismans which when brought together will be their only chance to regain their kingdom and free its people. Each must accomplish her task separately-and to succeed, each must also confront and conquer the limits of her own soul.
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Customer Reviews
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somebody shoot me!!!
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-04-05
This book is one of 3 legendarily bad books that forced me to stop reading adult fantasy (the other 2 were Shadowmoon and Cormyr, book I). What a shame because this story had promise. The first chapter of The Black Trillium begins with a bang and promises a great story. But everything that follows is downhill after that. There is hardly anything memorable going on in this book. Even the world the characters live in is boring!
The three main characters of The Black Trillium, a triplet of princesses who are sisters, have so much untapped potential. But instead of giving us a thrilling fantasy adventure, we get a very slow-moving story with characters who don't do very much other than mope around in a swamp while in exile.
It gets worse! The main villian of this story is an evil wizard who spends most of the book talking to a magic mirror. Worse yet, the wizard can't perform any real magic but has to use a machine to imitate magic spells. Even his magic-mirror is a machine! What a stupid concept! Frank L. Baum can get away with a magicless wizard in The Wizard of Oz. But no modern writer should even fathom such nonsense.
I had to force myself to read this book and have regretted it ever since. To sum it all up, I hate this book and compare reading it to being put through Chinese water torture. Slow and painful! I don't know how some people can give this book high reviews. Shame on Zimmer-Bradley, Norten, and Lackey. I expected much, much better from three very accomplished fantasy writers. Easily in my top five of worst books ever!
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Not Free SF Reader
Rating (1)
Date: 2007-09-03
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book was not in the able to be finished category. How did this talent come up with such ordinary junk. Too many cooks in this case, I think.
Time after time when the characters did something I would think 'what the hell is up with that'. Not really a good sign. Many useless princesses.
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Disappointing Effort
Rating (1)
Date: 2005-06-30
6 out of 21 customers found this reveiw helpful
I couldn't get past the prologue. I'm sure this novel improves but read this first line: "In the Eighth Hundred after those of Ruwenda came to rule over the swamp wilderness called the Mazy Mire (though not completely, for they never mastered the intractable Oddlings),..." and also on the first page: "the bog-trotting little Nyssomu and the closely related but more aloof Uisgu (quite nonhuman and therefore clearly designed by Nature to serve their betters)...". When attempting to begin reading any novel (especially the first page), it is essential that the novelist writes with clarity; just look at the names you would have to constantly read throughout this book! Check out the tribes' names: Wyvilo; Glismak; Skritek (also called Drowners) and Vespi! There are just too many ridiculous names to bother with, and this doesn't include place names. I just didn't care after three pages.
Sadly, I had been looking for this book for 6 months ( I didn't have the courage to buy it on Amazon) - and for good reason. I hope this review prevents any perspective buyer from making a mistake in buying this amatuerish garbage.
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Great read !
Rating  (5)
Date: 2003-01-16
3 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is truly what introduced me to these superb authors .It's definately one of the best books ever written .Magical ,interesting ,fast moving,it has all the qualities to a good book .I adored the creatures they invented ,the Oddlings ,the tree varts ,the Glismak ,the Skritek ,and everything else .They develope a wondreful feeling that I've barely felt before . Here is the plot :Three princesses are born in Ruwenda :Haramis ,smart and leader -like and heir to the throne ,Kadiya ,firey tempered but an amazing huntress,and Anigel,sweet ,timid ,and loving .Each of them is bestowed with the amulet of the black trillium by the Archmage Binah .When the princesses are young women ,the neighboring country of Labornok invades.Haramis ,Kadiya ,and Anigel are split up and sent to look for the magical talismans that will save their country :The Three Winged Circle ,the Three Lobed Burning Eye ,and the Three Headed Monster .But if the sorcerer you uses the king of Labornok as a puppet finds them first ,they will surely be destroyed.
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Pure Genius
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-09-12
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
I loved this book. It has a consistency rarely found in fantasy stories, creating a realistic world with believable characters, boundaries, and the vivid writing style invokes images in ones head that are hard to forget. I read this book a couple of years ago and just thought about it recently, but couldnt for the life of me remember what it was called! I finally found it! Hooray! Anyone who likes fantasy should *read it now*!
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