Crow, The: Temple of NIght

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Summary: utter crap, anyone?
Review: this person is a terrible writer. the plot is ridiculously contrived, the explicit sexual descriptions are overdone and the crow theme has been tarnished by this story. the only people who should ever read this book are hardcore crow fans. and then only to say you have.

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Summary: great
Review: This should have been the sequel for The Crow series! Its awesome in all ways... great plot! A must get for any Crow fan collector!

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Summary: an alright book
Review: this to me did not seem like a crow book. it was to magical and the crow is only in the book himself for about 15 pages its a alright book but dont read it expecting to see the crow.

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Summary: What Was I Thinking?
Review: What was I on with my last review for this book? Anyways, being the 4th book so far in the series, it did manage to add some different elements, like past lives and supernatural forces. I liked the fact that Stephen Lelliot could call upon crows to help him in his journey. What I didn't like though was that the action didn't start until 3/4 of the story. That and the end battle was very confusing and what I could understand, there wasn't enough happening. Also, the villian,"Dirk Temple" seemed like a cousin to the bad guy,"Joseph Lethe" in Lazarus Heart. Too many times for that type of character in my honest opinion. Out of all these books so far, Clash By Night is the best one(in my honest opinion).

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Summary: What Was I Thinking?
Review: What was I on with my last review for this book? Anyways, being the 4th book so far in the series, it did manage to add some different elements, like past lives and supernatural forces. I liked the fact that Stephen Lelliot could call upon crows to help him in his journey. What I didn't like though was that the action didn't start until 3/4 of the story. That and the end battle was very confusing and what I could understand, there wasn't enough happening. Also, the villian,"Dirk Temple" seemed like a cousin to the bad guy,"Joseph Lethe" in Lazarus Heart. Too many times for that type of character in my honest opinion. Out of all these books so far, Clash By Night is the best one(in my honest opinion).

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Summary: One more story that is for shock value only
Review: While a writer of fine language, truly an underlying grace to his prose, S.P. Somtow brought me great dissapointment with his telling of this story. There was no trace of the classical gothic beauty in this novel, it was a slice and dice bloodbath of no elegance. A true let down for any traditional Crow fan. Rather than highlighting the love and the injustice of that love being taken as has been the status qup of the Crow mythology, this was a hack and slash book full of child pornography and brash cruelty, that rather than outrages you, serves only to put afoul the fine lyrical quality of his work.