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Summary: A Review of Child of Flame
Review: This is by far the best of Ms. Elliott's present series. There have been so many characters and subplots so far that it's been hard to really make an emotional attachment to any one, even Liath. However this book finally starts drawing things together in a cohesive manner. I think that one of Ms. Elliott's main problems is that she gets too caught up in her own subplots and loses her grasp on the main story, which seems to me to be what happened with her Jaran series. Although Jaran was a masterpiece, in my opinion, the other books lacked focus and sprawled out of control. But Child of Flame, as far reaching as it is, actually gains focus. I almost didn't read the book as I was disappointed with the others; I'm glad I did.
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Summary: Epic MasterPiece - Jordan and Martin Move Over
Review: This novel continues Kate Elliott's trend to write engrossing, exciting and well thought out novels. To the reviewer who thinks it is riduculous to write about women dominated societies in a fanasy novel, read the definition of Fantasy, I wonder what you thought of the Planet of the Apes, since never in history not even on small Pacific Islands have Apes domesticated men. On the subject of Kate Eliott making you laugh because she writes men characters calling a woman a "Mighty Warrior", don't you suppose Joan of Ark might have been called a mighty warrior. This is a fanasy novel and it should be acceptable for the author to include fantasy in the makeup of the story don't you think?
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Summary: It is okay, but so boooooorrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiinnnnnngggggg
Review: well, don't get me wrong here, i love the earlier three books. I think they are fast paced and interesting. But when i got to the fourth book, the story line begins to drag on and on, without any appearant significant. What makes this particular book so boring is that the main character, Liath, has like a 40-pages part in this 800 pages book. I mean, all the author ever talk about is from the perspectives of the small-role characters, such as Hannah, Ivar, Rosvita, Anna, and such. Plus, she would expand the plot, making it alot longer than it should be. In my opinion, the only good parts in this book is when the perspective is Saglant or Liath. Everyone else is dull. I just skimmed through like 90% of the book, and i still understood it in the end.But when everything just getting exciting, when Liath's part start to get lively, the book ends. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! If you like the first three book, I think you would want to suffer through this one too. I think the next book is going to really, really good, since Liath has (***SPOILER***) more powers now. By the way, does any one know when the next book is comming out???
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Summary: disjointed and tiresome
Review: Well, that says it all. I've read them all and the first was the best. It was coherent, focused and balanced. Not the rest. Ms. Elliott seems to be trending toward an increasingly out of control jumble.
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