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The Pearl of Wisdom Saga: An Epic Fantasy Book Bundle Kindle Edition

by Jason Paul Rice (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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A hunt for a magical pearl. A bloody battle for a crown.

USA Today Bestselling Author, Jason Paul Rice, presents a limited time $2.99 (Normally 9.99) book bundle that is 360,000 Total Words=Approximately 1200 Pages

The world has no idea that a dark, ancient force is assembling for the ultimate war. An enormous demon army with a group of dragons at their command is plotting against the human race.

Oblivious to the looming threat, a kingdom teeters on the edge of civil war. Duke Jon Colbert’s blood boils because he is certain the king is setting up an arranged marriage to steal his only daughter. He’ll be damned if he’s going to let his little girl become a pawn in the king’s twisted schemes. But nobody denies the king’s wishes and lives to tell about it.

None of the infighting over a crown will matter if a group of unlikely heroes fails on a heroic quest. Will these brave souls find the elusive Pearl of Wisdom and use it to call the dragons into battle?

A myriad of sub-plots intertwine to keep you on the edge of your seat in this epic fantasy story. If you like strong-willed female characters, royal power struggles, magic, medieval mayhem, mystery and dragons, you’ll enjoy this series.

Pick up this bundle to embark on a reading adventure similar to A Game of Thrones with many interesting characters telling the wide-ranging story.

This Limited Time Deal includes:
Two Heads, Two Spikes
Fractured Families
Prequel Story-Plight of the Perfect Prince

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Mr. Rice creates a story worthy of A Game of Thrones,leading us into a world of intrigue and violence.

This well written fantasy tale kept me up late more than a few nights.

I had trouble with this book in the beginning but I made myself keep reading and was happy I did. The characters and story started to get interesting and I couldn't put it down.

I love this sort of fantasy story where there is lots of grey area between the goodies and the baddies.

There are plenty of well developed characters helping you see this world of magic and mayhem through their eyes.

The characters were strong, the multiple story lines kept me intrigued and the writing was creative and fluid.

Being blunt, the fantasy genre hasn't been one that I've had much interest in--until this book.

I can't get enough of the Kingdom of Donegal and beyond.

If you liked A Game of Thrones, you will enjoy Two Heads Two Spikes.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07FS4DW3F
Publisher ‏ : ‎ (July 21, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 21, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3869 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 999 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #985,125 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #235 in Classic Fantasy eBooks
- #421 in Arthurian Fantasy (Kindle Store)
- #3,516 in Dragons & Mythical Creatures Fantasy (Kindle Store)

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USA Today Bestselling Author Jason Paul Rice's real passion is to help people who have fallen victims to difficult circumstances. He would love to gain enough influence through writing to be able to supply books and ereaders to the underprivileged and homeless youths of the world. He wants to make sure every child has access to plenty of books to enjoy.

Jason Paul Rice was born and raised in the steel city of Pittsburgh. A strong work ethic was instilled in Jason from a very young age. Dedication and sacrifice were constantly exemplified by his mother, Judy, who taught Jason that nothing comes easy. After working extensively as a Chef (yes, you can ask him questions about food or cooking), Jason took the polar bear plunge into the icy waters of the book publishing world. He uses the accumulated lessons from a crazy life, and puts heart and soul into his writing.

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Lady Lightning

Highly recommend

Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2016

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I have enjoyed these books very much. Though I must admit that it took a few chapters to get used to the characters changing with each chapter. Once I got it sorted in my head I read the books voraciously. A great series of characters and stories that you are rooting for, combined with the bad characters that you boo and hiss at. Looking forward to the next book in this series.

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Lora S.

A good story, but difficult to follow

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2017

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Volume 1 – Two Heads, Two Spikes – 3.5 stars

Volume 1 of The Pearl of Wisdom Saga is a massively complicated story with many many characters and many moving parts. In this book, the main focus is on the Kingdom of Donegal and the various plots and power schemes that take place there, although there are a few scenes from various other countries.

The title scene, for example, takes place in the neighboring kingdom of Goldenfield when Princess Leimur LeLuc kills her parents and takes over as Queen. Her people evidently share her feeling that her parents have run the kingdom into the ground and are eager to get rid of them, calling for both their heads on spikes.

The people of Donegal are generally not much happier with their current king, Ali-Stanley Wamhoff, and there are all sorts of competing plots to get rid of him. Ali-Stanley himself is not above plotting extensively to get rid of people he doesn’t like. One of the biggest mistakes he makes is to ambush and try to kill Duke Jon Colbert of Mattingly, the only region of Donegal that is still contributing anything to the financial prosperity of the country. He (or rather his people) do not quite succeed, but the repercussions of this treachery, almost all bad, keep spreading out.

There is other stuff going on too – so much that it is difficult to keep up with or understand the significance of it. Three separate groups of people are journeying toward various schools of magic in the islands around Donegal. They need to train to defeat an approaching attack by a horde of demons. Most of the rest of their world is not aware that this attack is imminent. One of these groups of magic users is actively seeking the Pearl of Wisdom. Not much is made of this in this first book.

Many people are killed. Some of them appear to deserve it, others not so much. Among those who are killed is king Ali-Stanley. Many of the people who were plotting to kill him but didn’t make it because somebody else beat them to it decide to flee the country.

Like the Song of Ice and Fire books, this is a massive story with many moving parts. Somehow, however, it doesn’t seem to work as well, especially in this first book. We move back and forth between too many characters too quickly, and there doesn’t seem to be sufficient time to properly develop most of them. Many of the characters, especially the incompetent rulers and some of the more villainous characters feel more like cartoons than real people. Even many of the more virtuous characters feel like they would be more at home in a comic book. Which is a shame, as the overarching story appears, once you get to where you can figure out what is going on, to be worth pursuing to the end.

Volume 2 – Fractured Families – 4 stars

This second volume of The Pearl of Wisdom Saga is a little better than the first volume, now that we sort of know a little about the players and what is going on. However, I would not recommend this as a stand-alone book for anyone who has not read Two Heads, Two Spikes. If it was difficult to figure out which one was what one in that book, it would be nearly impossible in this one without having encountered them first in the previous book. Hence the value of a book bundle. In fact, if there is a bundle of all three books once the next book is finished, I would recommend that for anyone who hasn’t already read the earlier books.

At the end of Two Heads, Two Spikes, Ali-Stanley’s second son, Ali-Ster was chosen to succeed his father in place of his imbecile half-brother, Ali-Varis. Ali-Ster appears to have the makings of a good ruler. He has adopted the practice of going among the poor people of the countryside and distributing food and money on a regular basis. The poor people call him The People’s King. Ali-Ster also entertains a fantasy of marrying Queen Leimur LeLuc of Goldenfield, whom he sees as a kindred spirit. All his good plans and dreams are destroyed when he is killed in another of the famous Wamhoff betrayals.

Meanwhile, all the people who were previously plotting against Ali-Stanley are still plotting. Some of them step up their activity when they hear how Ali-Ster was ambushed.

Most of the family of Duke Jon Colbert is reunited except for the two oldest sons and Riceros. They too prepare to attack Fox Chapel and the Wamhoffs. They are supported in their plans by the Ducal family of Bottomfoot, whose son, Torvald, plans to marry Jon’s daughter, Mariah.

The young people who have been training in the schools of wizardry, or looking for these schools, are introduced to the reasons for their involvement in the project. They begin to meet up with each other, and some of them are made acquainted with various types of dragons. It appears that they have been training to fight the demons who are still very much planning to reclaim their world from the humans. And the Pearl of Wisdom is revealed, sort of, even if it is not actually visible yet.

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rjsmilebug

Confused

Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2018

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After deciding to stick it through trying to remember so many different characters and families the reward is a less than a page of what sounded like would be an epic battle with no closure. Was this really the end? Is it not the end of the saga? If not I don’t think I can take anymore. I mean at least when the characters die you know what happens to them rather than a quick close with all these loose ends. I am giving three stars because the character attachment was wonderful but the story I think feels like a jumbled mess. Like a plot line not put entirely put together.

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Excellent story.

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2018

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Although I have never watched game of thrones, I feel this story is along those lines. Very descriptive with lots of plot twists. Many characters, Back stabbing, and just all around fun if you are into treachery and treason. Not to mention Dragon riding and majic. I recommend this book.. well done Mr. Rice.

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A. Smith

Excellent books

Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2018

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The story of deceit, backstabbing and turmoil of a kingdom, it's kings and citizens. Some magic plays a role in what happens. The Wamhoffs, the ruling family of Donegal, is made up of honorable people and some who are evil. Very good storyline, encourage you to read and discover what happens.

Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2018

Interesting series

Too graphically violent

Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2018

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Many of the chapters contain scenes that are way too graphic in their description. I also thought the book dragged on in several places with entirely superfluous description that did not add to the story line. Overall I found the book to be uninteresting and would not recommend it, nor will I purchase the next in the series.

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Transparent Dream

Incomplete

Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2018

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It took me some time to get into this book. Lots of issues. While it is edited better than most kindle books, it's hard to follow at first, and the writing is a bit weak. This improves a great deal. The story is great( hence the 3 stars). My main complaint is that I purchased the 3 book set, but only a couple chapters of the 3rd are included. In the end, it wasn't compelling enough for me to purchase the rest of the final book. Rather, it was irritating, and I'll avoid the rest of this authors work. It's not a great idea to piss off your readers!

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chuck

do not buy

Reviewed in Canada on March 10, 2019

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this book is a terrible read .it bounces all over, never a ending and when it finally seems to be going somewere it kills of the person or bounces to some other non related subject .to finish this book you have to go on line igot sick and tired of trying to make sense of the plot do not go by the star rating as i was forced to enter one

Ron

Epic Story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 9, 2019

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This story is very similar to Game of Thrones. With several families vying for the thrones. There's intrigue and betrayal plenty of adventure and the ultimate fight between good and evil.
Definitely recommend

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Too personal to comment

Reviewed in Canada on April 12, 2019

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Heather Main

Good story but very confusing read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 31, 2019

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This makes for a great story but took a long time to read as it doesnt flow well, it is disjointed and requires too much effort to work out what is happening to make it enjoyable. The story once you've worked out the characters and where they fit is good. The ending however is frustrating and I can only presume there is another book? Hopefully it will fill the gaps.

K Howard

Action, dragons, magic and betrayal

Reviewed in Australia on February 8, 2019

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The book has a large number of characters and is quite busy with plots and subterfuge on going all the time. It's not a quick read. In saying that I wanted to know who would win. I did not like the way the ruling family all had the same prefix to their names with a large family you sometimes have to stop to think which one this is. With fewer characters it would have been fine.

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