Nightseer

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Summary: Magnificent book!! Characters will keep you on your toes!!
Review: This book is great. It provides the reader with characters you identify with and characters you love to hate. The book has a great plot and setting as well. If you're looking for something with magic as well as spunk here's the book to read.

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Summary: Hamilton's done it again !! Another great female protagonist
Review: What do I say ? Hamilton's Keleios characther is every bit as savvy,tough and powerful as Anita Blake(Vampire Hunter) if not more so. I must say I didn't know what to expect going into this book so many serial authors with great characthers start new ones that are copies of thier old ones or just plain bad all together. I'm pleased to say this is not the case with the Nightseer. Hamilton has got a new lady on the block and like Anita in her world she's "All That" and more. But the best part of this book is the Fantasy land itself. Hamilton has made a world where Good and Evil Sorcerers,Seers,Enchanters and plain old human Warriors can go the same school and be friends?? Where Demons aren't just plain brutes, but have a characther all thier own some good some not so good. Unless your a demon and than your just having some fun. Where being an evil prince doesn't make you a bad guy. And where your college roommate from hell may very well be from there.I hope this is not the last I'll be seeing of Keleios; she's great and I know if Hamilton doesn't give her a book she'll want tobe seeing Hamilton across the sands. For anyone wanting to read this book hold onto your hats Keleios is one badddddd MoMMa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: Good but not great
Review: This was a fun book but it was not up to LHK's usual standards. And I have to say that whoever said that this book was better than Anita has to get his head checked. I missed the first person narration from the witty Anita, and I don't feel that after completing the book I really know Keleios. I didn't understand many of her motives, but I did like Gorghe and Belor. I do want the second book to come out because it really does deserve a conclusion. I saw an almost Richard-Jean Claude relationship with Lothor and Belor, at least in the beginning. The book was slow to start, but it picked up a little at the end. It was a fun read, but if you want to read a relly good LHK book read Guilty Pleasures, or any of the earlier Anita Books!

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Summary: A doomed early effort by a great writer
Review: As a fan of Laurell K. Hamilton, I had high expectations when I picked up _Nightseer_. That is also the only reason I finished it. Ms Hamilton's writing style was not developed at this point and she committed two mistakes of a beginning writer--she used prose that told the reader what was happening instead of showing the reader what was happening which contributed to a boring and exhausting read, and the ending was contrived and had a very false feel to it. The archetypes of characters in her later Vampire novels are present in _Nightseer_, which made for an eerie deja vu sensation in the later parts of the novel. However there were glimmers of greatness within _Nightseer_. Some of the fight scenes snapped and crackled with action. There were instances of dialogue that showed Ms Hamilton's (and her character's) wit and left me chuckling. Overall, it was obvious that this was an early effort by a talented writer. Thankfully Ms Hamilton's writing ability has matured and sharpened since then. Skip this novel and read her Anita Blake series instead.

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Summary: Hope there is a sequel.
Review: This book was great, but I thought that it was left uncomplete. I can only hope that there will be a sequel. Laurell Hamilton is a great author I love how she starts off immediatly at a fast pace and doesn't drag her story with a lot of information about the main character's past, but blends in the information with the conflicts and while Keleios makes her decisions. Great book.

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Summary: Where's part 2?
Review: I just loved this book. In fact, I like Nightseer even better than the authors Anita Blake series. I picked up my copy back when I was in high school about 8 years ago, and haven't regreted it. The magic system, while obviously derived from D&D is still very entertaining. There's a lot of adventure and enough explanations so that you aren't 'completely' in the dark, but it still needs a sequal. I know that writting is hard, but I just want to know, 'WHEN IS PART 2 COMING OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' My recommendation, any fantasy fan who doesn't buy this needs to get their head examined!

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Summary: Great characters, great action!!
Review: I was hooked by Hamilton's great sense of character and adventure! It's fun and exciting--never a dull moment! It'll make you wish for a continuation of Kelios' story....

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Summary: Ms Hamiton please begin at the begining!
Review: Nightseer is like a the star wars movies it begins in the middle. Don't git me rong I truely enjoyed the book. I love the character they just came to life for me. Keleios was a trip. BUT!! This should not be the first book in the series! That is if there is to be a series. It should have been the 2nd or 3rd book at the very least. It aggravates a person if they there is know pervious book to explan the one they are reading. It leave questions unanswered such as ... How was she, her mother and her sister caught and later rescued? How did the Witch escape death? How did she get the Demondmark and why such a powerful one? Why is Keleios rejected by her mother's people? Where is her father? Why were her parent never married? Where is her father's people? And most of all what is Oh So Special about Keleios that the Darkhealer elf prince would rather kill or be killed by her if he could not wed her??

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Summary: Pretty good, though not the best
Review: I've been reading LKH's Anita Blake series for about a year now when I found this book on my Grandmother's shelf. I read it in a few hours and thought it was pretty good, though not as good as her other, more resent books. It seemed that some parts of the book went really slowly, and others happened so quickly that they seemed to have never happened. It seems that the book was left unfinished though, is there a sequel? Please let me know.

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Summary: A good book with great depth.
Review: I may be the only person that picked up this book (before it was reprinted) *before* I read any Antia Blake series. I felt that this book had alot of growth and and color. The book unfolded with unexpected, but not impossible, shots from left field. I am inclined to agree that there were a few loose ends left with the story, I would enjoy a sequel a great deal.