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Summary: Invoking Greatness
Review: This series of books fully expands on the mystery that is the Technomage. If you've enjoyed the exploits the Galen on Crusade or the Geometry of Shadows from Season Two of Babylon 5 you'll love these books. Two thumbs up Jeanne Cavelos who's done a marvelous job of capturing the spirit of the B5 universe.
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Summary: Invoking Greatness
Review: This series of books fully expands on the mystery that is the Technomage. If you've enjoyed the exploits the Galen on Crusade or the Geometry of Shadows from Season Two of Babylon 5 you'll love these books. Two thumbs up Jeanne Cavelos who's done a marvelous job of capturing the spirit of the B5 universe.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: This was a well written book, and very entertaining. It's resolution, while disappointing to some, was well within character for Galen, and was a nice twist on the whole story line. As people have pointed out, it does present venets from a few B5 episodes from a different perspective, and fleshes out those episodes nicely, without destroying the continuty of the series itself. Like the other two B5 trilogies, (The Psi-Corps Trilogy and the Centauri Prime Trilogy) this one is based on an utline from B5 creator J. Michael Strazynski. (Making it unfair to blame the authors of these series for the problems some have percieved in the stories.) This is the third book of the trilogy, and should be read as such. I do recommend this book and give it my highest rating. (I never give out anything higher than four stars on a five star scale.)
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Summary: From Severe Depression to "Becoming One with the Tech"
Review: Unlike Casting Shadows (book 1) and Summoning Light (book 2), Invoking Darkness lacks consistency in writing and the usual tight plot structure usually seen in Jeanne Cavelos' work. The majority of the piece examines what appears to be a clinically depressed Galen, his overwhelming need for revenge, and his desire for control. After so much negativity, the reader becomes accustomed to these feelings in the character. So, in the final chapter, making the rough transition to an almost spiritually fulfilled Galen seems ridiculous at best. Possibly, the author wrote herself into a corner and could not get out.
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Summary: WONDERFUL
Review: Very full, rounded characters. Story twists you don't see coming until they smack you upside the head. The only time I was able to put this book down is when I HAD to stop to contemplate a twist. HIGHLY recommended. p.s. makes much more sense if you read the 1st 2 first...also highly recommended.
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Summary: It's Galen-rific!
Review: Well there's not much I can say about this book that I haven't said about the first two. I love this series, I love this book, and I love Galen. That pretty much sums it up. Because of these books I'll never be able to watch Crusade or Babylon 5 in quite the same way. Man I wish there were more of this series.
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Summary: A great read, but not everything I wanted
Review: WHAT IT IS: A wonderfully written, beautifully crafted conclusion to the story Jeanne Cavelos set out to tell (based on an outline by JMS). Cavelos was given a finite amount of material, a specific portion of Galen's life, to write about, and she has done an exemplary job of fleshing out his character and his motivations. One puts this book down having a far deeper understanding of Galen, and of the events from a surprising number of episodes of Babylon 5. WHAT IT IS NOT: Crusade. There is very, very little here from the "real" Galen show, Crusade--only one scene from a flashback, really. While I was happy with what Jeanne is allowed to include here, I was bitterly disappointed that we get *nothing* in the way of Galen from the time period we've all seen him on either Crusade or A Call to Arms. I suppose I'm just desperate for more of the Crusade story, and was hoping this trilogy would do the same thing Peter David's Centauri books did-- carry the entire saga to its final conclusion. They do not. Be warned!
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