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Summary: An AmaziNg Book from a PhonomInaL Series
Review: After I had finished reading The 4th Harry Potter book, my english teacher just handed me this book out of the blue and said, "Here, read this." Little did I know that it would take me on a journey so Amazing that I would end up adding it to my favorites list. This book was so wonderful that I am currently reading the last book out of the trilogy. This tale is about a girl named Aeriel who is captured by a beautiful darkangel who she knows she must kill but soon comes to find love for him. However, beneath this main plot are many smaller ones that will follow into the past and fate of Aeriel. It will keep you guessing the mysterious ways of this world and how Meredith Ann Pierce even thought of such a wonderful story. I strongly recommend that after reading this book you continue to the other two, because it would just be silly not to! This story will change your perspective of literature and love!! SO BUY IT!!
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Summary: Young Adult
Review: By reading the description of this book, I had no idea it was for young adults. So, needless to say, for an adult, i found it very slow and unable to hold a reader. For young adult, I though the array of characters was pretty cool and the storyline itself was interesting.
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Summary: I really enjoyed the adventure!
Review: I consider my self a Vampyre fan, and when I choose this novel, at fisrt time, I did think that it was a novel about demons or vampyres. But while I was reading it, I was surprised with the intense suspense and adventure found. Is my first time with a Pierce's novel, and I recommend it.
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Summary: I'm 25 and LOVED this story!
Review: I didn't realize at first when I bought this book it was a young adult book! Why do all the young adults get some of the best stories these days? Anyway, this has to be my favorite book so far. I'm a Harry Potter fan and love this book as much as I love HP. I'm reading into the 2nd book now and have the third and can't put it down! I even got my best friend a copy to read. The Dark Angel's lure is also felt with readers. Along with the Dark Angel, all of the characters are enduring and quick to get to your heart. You feel for Pierce's characters and even feel all the emotions Aeriel is feeling. The ending was my favorite part, the Wraiths/13 Brides are truely funny and how the characters change and grow in this book just amazes me. I LOVE IT! I haven't read a good fantasy novel like this in a long time, the good ones are hard to find and I just simply ate it up. You will not be able to put it down, trust me!
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Summary: This book is what started it all...
Review: I found this book many moons ago at a school book fair. I was attracted to the cover and after reading the back of the book...I had to buy it. It was the only book I bought at the fair. Was I lucky!!! It turned out to be one of the greatest books I'd ever read. That was over 17 years ago...and I can still honestly say that the story still moves me to this day. The story of Aeriel and Irrylath, which carries on through the two remaining books in the trilogy, is what started my "love" affair with vampires and vampire novels. But this trilogy, unlike many other vampire series, is more fantasy based and driven. It doesn't stick with the same myths and legends surrounding vampires. Instead it interweaves a very human story...the journey of a young girl who learns a great deal about herself, her heritage, true love, and what life is all about...on her quest for vengence. There are elements of magic, mystery, ancient gods, and mystical far off lands throughout the series. Not to mention the romantic and tragic thread woven in as well. This series has it all. It is a must read for anyone who loves a good fantasy novel...and a definite for any vampire enthusiastist who like a tale told with a new and inviting twist. The Darkangel is a literary delight for young and old fantasy lovers alike.
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Summary: A refreshing change of pace
Review: I just discovered this book, picking it up at a used book sale in town. I sat down to read it and found myself enthralled. I finished it in a day and immediately afterwards signed on to Amazon to pick up the final two books in the trilogy.What I like about Pierce is her refreshing new take on what can too often be a wearied and hackneyed genre. In this book you'll find very few of the all-too-common resonances from the Tolkien-esque world. Instead, Pierce introduces the reader to a world that at first seems very recognizable and familiar; yet, as the trilogy progresses, Pierce slowly and subtly strips away the familiar elements of her world, adding more uncanny and imaginative details that increasingly contribute to the series' sense of intrigue and mystery, culminating at last into a string of final revelations at the trilogy's end. Pierce's imagination expands exponentially with each new book as she combines some science-fiction elements with a rich new take on famous legendary figures such as vampires and lorelei, and on not so well-known characters such as the duarough (or the Scandinavian dvergar--an underground gnome). This trilogy is an intriguing read for all ages and a wonderful and original change of pace for fantasy veterans and enthusiasts. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Dark and beautiful....
Review: I love this book. I know it is supposedly a children's book but I would recommend any age group reading it. Vampires with wings, gargoyles, and all of sorts of fantastical things. I had to get the other 2 books in the trilogy. Truly a wonderful book.
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Summary: A Stunning Fantasy
Review: I picked this book for a book report and looking at it and thinking it would be a good book but it wasn't I don't even want to finish it. It is soooo boring. Some of it I didn't even understand like what is a day-month? I read a lot of other reviews and I don't think this book deserves 5 stars.Also a lot of the reviews say it's good for adults but my mom read some of it and she didn't even like it.
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Summary: An incredible tale
Review: I picked this book up the first time at my school library. I was still up at three in the morning trying to finish it; it was that captivating. It has all the components of a fairytale, and yet is worked into a fantasy novel that includes vampires, gargoyles and other strange and macabre creatures. Don't be put off by the word 'vampire' though, this book isn't yet another vampire book of that most over-used genre, but an incredible story with a huge scope and scale that stretches from a small village, to the vampire's forbidden castle, to a seemingly endless desert. It begins when a young Aerial's mistress is kidnapped upon the hills by a dark angel, or a vampire. Taking it upon herself to rescue her, she sets off on a wonderful journey that includes characters you've only ever seen in myths and legends. With her bravery, kindness and story-telling abilities Aerial gradually begins to lighten the darkangel's world and teach him of his own dark heritage.
I read this book when I was thirteen, but when I went back to the library to get it out again, it was gone! But ... I've finally found it again, and I'm just about to go down to the public library to order it. I've never read the third book in this trilogy - 'The Pearl of the Soul of the World', but upon looking at reviews, I see there is a character called Ravenna in it! What a fluke, as my nickname was Ravenna long before I even remembered any of these books. I'll be reading that one as soon as I can, hopefully to find that the character who shares my name is a good one.
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Summary: Fey and enchanting
Review: I re-read this trilogy (The Darkangel, A Gathering of Gargoyles, and The Pearl of the Soul of the World) every so often and even though I know exactly what's going to happen, every time I find myself enchanted all over again. However, Meredith Ann Pierce doesn't explain everything to the nth degree. Instead, you have to listen to her language and figure things out for yourself. This trilogy isn't for your run-of-the-mill fantasy reader who looks only for a thinly disguised re-hash of Tolkien. It's startling and original, fey and luminous, absolutely enchanting. As for the negative reviews: (1) those of you who find these books "boring" must have no ear for language or no sense of the numinous, or your ideal fantasy is something of the "sword and sorcery" genre; (2) a whole lot of you don't seem to get that this trilogy takes place in the *way far* future ON THE MOON!!! That's what the "daymonth" and "earthlight" things are about. Re-read it if you don't believe me -- particularly the parts about the ancients "who had first fallen from the sky in fire to quicken this, a then-dead world, the moon of Oceanus, into life.." then returned whence they came, back to Oceanus (the Earth). "Oceanus hung, a swirl of blue and white, almost directly ahead of her..." Doesn't that put you in mind of that famous photograph (I think it's called "Earthrise") taken of the Earth by one of the astronauts?
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