Villains by Necessity

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Summary: Villians By Necessity
Review: Villians by Necessity is one of the greatest books ever written and definetly worthwhile to read. This book is a non-stop thrill ride with a new suprise waiting on every page. This book is a must-read for all fantasy lovers.

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Summary: In a game of chess, someone has to take the black pieces.
Review: What happened AFTER the Heroes saved the world and entered into a time of great prosperity? Now we know! It plays both ways. A hard-to-find book, to be sure. My one complaint (ok, two) is that the publisher has decided not to reprint it, and that a sequel hasn't been written! It is an ingenius story line and screams to be a series and/or a movie! I highly recommend it for anyone who is into Fantasy or is thinking about it! Some of the scenes and aspects of the book I would have liked to see fleshed out more, and further character development. However, as books go, it is a supreme balance of plot, background, and interaction and is one of my all-time favorites!

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Summary: In a game of chess, someone has to take the black pieces.
Review: What happened AFTER the Heroes saved the world and entered into a time of great prosperity? Now we know! It plays both ways. A hard-to-find book, to be sure. My one complaint (ok, two) is that the publisher has decided not to reprint it, and that a sequel hasn't been written! It is an ingenius story line and screams to be a series and/or a movie! I highly recommend it for anyone who is into Fantasy or is thinking about it! Some of the scenes and aspects of the book I would have liked to see fleshed out more, and further character development. However, as books go, it is a supreme balance of plot, background, and interaction and is one of my all-time favorites!

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Summary: A great read for all
Review: While still falling into the usual, overdone idiosyncrasies of fantasy(sorcorers, wizards, knights, centaurs,etc.)this is definately a good book. Putting a new twist on a very old idea of good vs. evil, forward succeeds in capturing the readers attention, and keeping it. One flaw with the book is the typical "bad guy","good guy" plot line. All Forward did was flip it so bad was good and vice versa. As a result, all of the characters are a little dissapointingly flat, but the character of Sam does achieve a good roundness, not foresaking his assasins habits as the thief and the sorcoress do, becoming "chummy" with the group, a little too unrealistically. Sam also does not justify his acts, but shows the only human emotion in the story, of forgivenss, and compasion in real life, unlike the more compassionate, but fake Kaylana. Also there is a good message throughout the story. This is brought to us via the "good guys" who, in their pursuit of ultimate good, commit evil acts to accomplish it, whiles the "bad guys" do only what they must to survive, resisting the common stereotype that if you do what is different, you are morally corrupt. Winding in the moral lesson of acceptance and the true qualities of good seen in Sam, Eve Forward has written a truly good book that is a needed break from the usually too serious fantasy genere and will be enjoyed by all

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Summary: My Favorite Book of All Time. No, Really. (By Pook!)
Review: You know this has happened to you. You're reading a traditional, high-fantasy type novel. About fifty pages in, you're skimming through the third long-winded, introspective inner monologue of the hero of the story about battling the evil in his heart. Don't you just wish sometimes that the bad guy, who's usually a much more interesting person anyway, would just come up and whack him? This is the book for you. Along with all the traditional aspects of high fantasy--the warrior, the mage, the theif, quests, labyrinths and insurmountable odds--this book has a wicked sense of humor and depth, and characters that will stay with you forever. It's for those of us who have always wanted to step on the lovable gnomes, smack around vapid princesses and say "BWA-HAHAHAAAA!!" and mean it. Definitely my favorite book of all time :)