Starman

Rating:
Summary: Ok Ending
Review: Starman = book three of the Wayfarer Redemption series

Pro = Kept some mystery all the way to the end

Pro = Story plot still had me turning pages even when I found some scenes disappointing (see below)

Con = Axis' handling of Faraday is weak and seemed out of character, especially for all the times he was swearing, "I'll never let either of them go!"

Con = Like book two...the final conflict between brothers is so anti-climatic it hurt. This really made me grade this review a star less.

Con = It would have made sense for more characters to meet their death and other not to have.

Con = The forces of "good" just win too easily at different points in the struggle.

Overall = Story could have been better. Not sure if author had a page limit and had to edit a lot of useful stuff before book went to print. It was an OK ending to an epic story.

Rating:
Summary: Wonderful!
Review: Starman by Sara Douglass completes the first trilogy of the six book Wayfarer Redemption series. Final battles are fought, sacred sites are reconsecrated, and the characters discover their own paths in this conclusion of Axis's trilogy.

Douglass is a master at worldbuilding, creating rich scenery and mythical locations that the characters explore and discover.

So many mysteries thread throughout this series, making the reader want to hurry through the pages to discover the answers to the questions. Azhure became my favorite character at her first appearance in the series and this third book finally answers the questions to her mysterious past and reveals the path she will take in her future. This is a book where the women in Axis's life really do shine and steal the show from him in places, fulfilling their own destinies and roles in the prophecy.

Wonderful ending to Douglass's first Tencendor trilogy! My only complaint is that sometimes the skipping viewpoints between characters in the middle of scenes gets a little confusing, but it did not slow my reading down too much.

Rating:
Summary: A spellbinding atmosphere.
Review: StarMan is the third and final book of the Axis Trilogy (started with BattleAxe and Enchanter).

After defeating his half-brother Borneheld, Axis and his army march North for the final battle against Gorgrael, who's bringing along his terrible legion of Gryphon. The situation seems hopeless.

Meanwhile the Prophecy of the Destroyer goes on enfolding, and Azhure and Faraday both set off on a journey to fulfill their part. Azhure, accompanied by StarDrifter, travels to the Island of Mist and Memory, where she'll unravel the mystery of her and Axis's heritage. Faraday, now freed from both Borneheld's and Axis's love, moves East to replant the forty-two thousand seedlings, souls of the dead Avar banes, and reawaken the ancient forests whose power must, in the end, help Axis defeat Gorgrael.

The only two reasons why I didn't give this book five stars is because some battles sometimes seemed to be won too easily, and because I found the Skraelings and Gryphon a tad grotesque. But aside from this, StarMan is an spellbinding, beautifully woven tale of love and friendship, where enchanting moments and unexpected events take place, and where the descriptions and atmosphere betray the author's deep, passionate love of Nature.

Rating:
Summary: Loved the book
Review: Starman
by Sarah Douglass

The book Starman is a great adventure. This book the third and final book in the series and is a great way to end the series. Some of the things that I liked about the book is that it is the final battle between two brothers, Good and evil, Axis and Gargoyle. Also how Azure comes to power and showed her true power. How both Axis and Azure become gods. How Wolfstar shows how much he really plays in the book and why he did what he did. The true love that is shown in the in the book as well as the hate. This book is the perfect book about life.

The theme in this book is that good will not always win the battle but will always win the war but not with out sacarfice. I agree with this theme 100 percent. I know that in the end if you are fighting for what is right then you may not win the battle but sooner or latter you will win the war. You should always fight for what you believe in no matter what because in the end you are most likely to win. If you loose then continue to fight until you win the war. This book though dose relate to my life in the way that when I really want something I do not give up until I get it. Then there are times when do not get what I want but I know I will get it latter.

This book is a terriic book. Yes I would recommend this book to other people. Even though this book tells you very little about life. It is a great book to read if you like to read a good love, drama, and action book.

Rating:
Summary: Dumb from beginning to end
Review: The art on the cover of the American versions of these books is wonderful.

There. That's the one nice thing I can say about Sara Douglass's books.

I am amazed at the popularity there seems to be associated with this tripe. The writing is awful, the plotline is predictable and stupid, and the characters are dull. Avoid this, unless you like reading the stuff that gives fantasy a bad name in the first place.

Rating:
Summary: Started so well, ended so poorly.
Review: The first book in the series created a wonderful fantasy world and characters that you could care about and love.

In Enchanter and on into Starman, Sara spends her time destroying the characters you have come to care about and leaves you cheering for Gorgrael as everyone else, except possibly Faraday, have degenerated into vile individuals with little or no redeeming qualities. This leaves the reader with little desire to read on and no emotional attachment to the characters other then general disgust.

I am an avid fantasy fan and can forgive a great deal but Sara's own assassination of her characters makes this by far the poorest fantasy series I have read. I dont normally write reviews of the many fantasy books I read (and mostly love) but the last two books in this series were so bad it made me throw them out in hopes I might spare someone the misfortune of picking them up.

Rating:
Summary: It's getting a bit too stupid
Review: The first two books, while not great literature, were entertaining enough. The 3rd story takes a turn towards ludicrious. Some of the "it's so dumb I can't take it any more" points:

- Two of the main characters turn into gods or immortals. Axis literally cannot die, but can be killed by his brother.
- The prophecy tells you everything you need to know about the series.
- A newborn baby plots, 2nd male in line for the throne, to get his brother kidnapped, so he can be named hier. The baby has a woman carry him around to carry out the plot.
- The bridge guardian that challenges everyone can be fooled by saying "trust me", and it's a female guardian no less ;-)
- Faraday and Azhure fight off a god by holding on and telling him to go.
- You know the outcome of every battle before the author writes it which leaves no suspence.

I didn't know the author intended the series to be a comedy.

Rating:
Summary: Disappointing end to an otherwise great series
Review: The Wayfarer Redemption series started out with a bang but, very sadly, it fizzled out in the end. What started out to be so promising at first did not meet up to my expectations falling far short of it.

What I didn't like about the book was that Axis and Azhure, who seemed a tad believable initially, turned out to be gods in the end. Somehow, it just seemed like Ms Douglass was really unable to let the Axis and Azhure go, making them godly,and immortal and not age even though they were already Icarii - somehow magical in its own way. In fact, it kind of ruined the book for me.

The hatred and hostility DragonStar has for his parents was not well-explained, and it didn't seem possible that Drago seem to be more scheming and evil than Gorgrael, even though he was just a baby.

Besides, the battles leading up to the big one with Gorgrael seemed to be more action-packed than Axis's final battle with Gorgrael, which was sadly one-sided and with no real punch at all. We could tell immediately what was going to happen even before the final show-down, and I think that is really a disappointment.

The love-triangle between Axis, Azhure and Faraday came to an end with Faraday sacrificing herself out of love for Axis. Again, another unbelievable, selfless act.

From what I know, there appears to be another 3 books in the Wayfarer Redemption series, which continues the story of Caelum, the StarSon and Drago. I'm willing to continue with the series, and hope that maybe it'll not be such a disappointment as this one.

Rating:
Summary: Woman magicians save the world
Review: The world of Tencendor labors under the weight of a foreign and destructive god and a prophesy that foretells a battle between the Starman and the Destroyer. In this third volume of the WAYFARER REDEMPTION, Gorgrael, the destroyer, is prepared to loose vast armies of his ghost-like soldiers protected by increasing hordes of Griffens--mythical creatures of death and destruction. Against these, Axis, the Starman, has only the battered remnants of an army that has already been asked to do too much, and two women who love him. When the ancient plow-god Artor decides to take personal responsibility for the destruction of one of those two women, Axis's chances to fulfill the prophesy look grim.

Although this novel is entitled STARMAN, it is truly about the two women who love Axis and thier struggles to deal with a world that has brought them more pain than pleasure. Faraday, the woman Axis loved and Azhure, Axis's wife, must come to terms with their own power--and with the rivalry that their love for Axis, and Axis's unwillingness to tell the truth, created.

Author Sara Douglass is at her best when she deals with the emotional entanglements between lovers--and these emotional entanglements drive the entire novel. The battle scenes lack much substance and the magic system, while interesting, remains largely unexplored as a major plot element.

I was uncomfortable with Axis's and Azhure's genocidal elimination of the Skraelings, and more uncomfortable with the ambiguous relationship between parent and child. I thought that neither Axis nor Azhure showed appropriate tenderness toward their own children, let alone toward Axis's expected brother. Indeed, this last element of the novel added little other than making the primary characters less sympathetic.

STARMAN is the final volume of an interesting and powerful series. Douglass's world-building is first-rate and her emotional development is rich. Fans of her earlier novels will find STARMAN to be a satisfying conclusion to this epic tale. The novel should probably be read as part of the series rather than as a stand-alone.

Rating:
Summary: not the best, but not bad either
Review: this book was pretty good. i wouldnt recomend it to everyone, but i know of a few people who would just love it.

i give this book 3.5 stars. the reason lies mostly in the oddities of the characters. i could explain them all, but that would just be a waste of time.

i myself liked the ending, and wolfstar was a great character, but other than that it wasnt much. o, i still liked it,and will probably buy it when it comes out in paper-back, but like i said, this book isnt the best. good reading and enjoy.