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Summary: Great!!!
Review: This has got to be one of the BEST series of books I have ever read. I've read this paticular book twice, and right now I am working on it for a third time. If you haven't tried any of the novels in the Magic Kingdom of Landover series, start with Magic Kingdom For Sale-SOLD! Its great!
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Summary: One of the best fantasy books!
Review: This is a great sequal to Magic Kingdom for Sale-Sold! There were many interesting twists and turns, I couldn't put it down.
I think this series so far is much better than Shanara. I couldn't read those, but this was amazing! I would defainetly recommend it to anyone who loves fantasy
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Summary: not five because Ben is silly
Review: This is a wonderfully original book. The black unicorn as a dreaded creature was a nice touch. Brooks, as expected, set a great scene and developed his plot very well. But Ben is kinda thick in the head. The secret of the unicorns is kind of obvious I think to the average reader, but it takes them forever to figure it out. Oh well, still a great addition to this light reading series. Read it!
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Summary: Entertaining...
Review: This is based on the abridged audio book version:
1) Definitely a high-magic type story...meaning magic is everywhere and some characters are very powerful. This may be a turn off to some folks.2) No elves, dwarves, trolls, orcs or goblins in this fantasy story. This was a nice change actually. What you do find is kobolds, fairies and unicorns (of course). 3) Main character Ben Holiday is a likeable human in a magical world. 4) Meeks the "evil" wizard seemed too much a stereotypical bad guy. He was a bit boring in my opinion. 5) The rest of the cast (defunked wizard, "dog" man, and the offspring of fairies and wood nymphs) was an interesting change to the standard fighter, caster, theif combo.
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Summary: So very cool!!!
Review: This is just a great book fun and lighthearted Talking Cats
A former trial lawyer who now has to be king
An evil wizard scheaming his way back to power See? great story elements go pick up a copy if you haven't already.
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Summary: So very cool!!!
Review: This is just a great book fun and lighthearted Talking Cats
A former trial lawyer who now has to be king
An evil wizard scheaming his way back to power See? great story elements go pick up a copy if you haven't already.
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Summary: An interesting diversion, if nothing else
Review: This is yet another of those books whose entire success hinges on a single plot point - and while I must confess, hands down, that the mysterious central premise is quite enthralling, watching the uninteresting chracters follow through the plot's execution destroys the charm. Brooks made the central character so unnaturally stupid that it's VERY hard to associate, moreover sympathise. I realized the true answer long before Ben (which is perhaps the single important thing to avoid when reading a mystery story), and soon the story collapsed altogether. Most of the book focuses on uneventful episodes in the separate quests of several of the characters, which seem to go on forever. Surprisingly enough, I never found the key villain to be in any way threatening. The dragon, yes, Nightshade, moderately, but not Meeks. The book follows the same episodic style of the previous volume, only this time the unoriginality is even more noticeable and irritating. Perhaps this book is necessary for those who want to follow the series, but, certainly, this is not the most interesting one.
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Summary: Pretty good...
Review: This was a pretty good book. It's not the best in the series though. Ben Holiday once again surprises us all with his relentless strokes of LUCK. However, this was a good story with all the characters you love from Magic Kingdom for Sale-SOld. A good, light-hearted adventure.
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Summary: Really good book
Review: This was a really good book, not as good as the first, but still really good. I really liked the originality of the plot, I never expected what happened to happen, the unicorns being traped in the book and only the black unicorn being able to free them. I also liked the return of the villians from the first book. All the same loveable characters also made a come back. I really enjoyed not knowing what to expect next in this book.
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Summary: Why do we need sequels?
Review: When reading the first book in this series I was pleasantly surprised. Very nice and original plot. A five star book in my opinion. The best part being that it was a book by itself, no sequels, everything was perfectly finished, no open ending, the villain(s) were dead or beaten. Recently I found out that there were sequels to this book. I decided to buy the second book, and immediateley after I started reading it I got a little bit disappointed. The plot is so extremely obvious that while reading the book you are wondering on what page Ben will find the truth of the matter. The reader knows this from almost page one. Nightshade (supposed to be dead in the fairy world with the ending of book one) miraculously re-appears. In short, not at all what I expected after reading part one.
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