Starman

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Summary: starman revived
Review: this is the best book ever in the Tencendor series. axis has been
reunited with his mother and father. not only that but with his heritage.
it has adventure, love, and pain.

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Summary: Wonderful Series From Start to End
Review: This series really has 6 books. I read them all before they were available in the US. Sara Douglass is from Australia, and this is a 6 book series there, broken down to 2 trilogies here. The first three books I loved more than the last three, but all 6 books were incredible. Sara Douglass brings us a world that is refreshingly different than most fantasy books, mostly because it is original. She has a great imagination, and puts on paper easily, so that the world we read about in her books flows out from her pages to surround us. The characters have flaws, and you learn to love them regardless. At one moment, you are wanting one thing to happen, and the next you want the opposite to happen. The book is a fresh edition tot he Fantasy Genre! I recommend this book to those who love sci-fi / fantasy and love a series that span a generation!

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Summary: The sorry ending
Review: This started out as a good story. With great set of characters everyone had there role. So what happened to this great warrior Axis. He went from hero to zero in a matter of pages. The main character in this series started out as the greatest of warriors and then took to the side lines while the women won the day. So then what happened to the prophecy it killed me to have paid for this book and to have waited for this sorry ending to a pretty good story. Don't waste your money just read the last thirty pages of this book in the store.

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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: Very Disappointing

This book would be one of the worst I have read. Book 1 was good, Book 2 was Ok, Book 3 is garbage! Absolute garbage! The author has provided us with the worst character assassination that I have ever read. In Book 1 we meet this man called Axis who is by all accounts a brave warrior who commands a top class fighting force (The BattleAxe). As the books progress we end up with a snivelling wet back who doesn't seam to be able to do anything without his miss (Azhure) there to guide him (or save his useless hide). I think most armies would send someone like him back to the farm to tend the cows and feed the chickens. I am not sure what the author was trying to prove but it was a very disappointing read.

Why this book is titled the `Starman' is beyond me. Book 2 was called the `Enchanter' it would have been better called `Enchantress Part 1' and book 3 being called `Enchantress Part 2'. Our so called Starman rates probably less than a third of the book and in those few pages he is mentioned, you can't help but skip paragraphs in order to avoid the wining snivelling dialog.

An extremely disappointing end to what started out as being not a bad trilogy. Don't waste your money. If you have read book 1 and 2, then if you must read the third, seek it at your local library. As for any further books in this series, let Gorgrael or Artor be revived so he can kick the whinging out of the rest of them.

For those of us here in South Australia, I could not help but notice the likeness to `Secret Women's Business' with the female Avar Banes. This just added to the distaste.

Rating:
Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: Very Disappointing

This book would be one of the worst I have read. Book 1 was good, Book 2 was Ok, Book 3 is garbage! Absolute garbage! The author has provided us with the worst character assassination that I have ever read. In Book 1 we meet this man called Axis who is by all accounts a brave warrior who commands a top class fighting force (The BattleAxe). As the books progress we end up with a snivelling wet back who doesn't seam to be able to do anything without his miss (Azhure) there to guide him (or save his useless hide). I think most armies would send someone like him back to the farm to tend the cows and feed the chickens. I am not sure what the author was trying to prove but it was a very disappointing read.

Why this book is titled the 'Starman' is beyond me. Book 2 was called the 'Enchanter' it would have been better called 'Enchantress Part 1' and book 3 being called 'Enchantress Part 2'. Our so called Starman rates probably less than a third of the book and in those few pages he is mentioned, you can't help but skip paragraphs in order to avoid the wining snivelling dialog.

An extremely disappointing end to what started out as being not a bad trilogy. Don't waste your money. If you have read book 1 and 2, then if you must read the third, seek it at your local library. As for any further books in this series, let Gorgrael or Artor be revived so he can kick the whinging out of the rest of them.

For those of us here in South Australia, I could not help but notice the likeness to 'Secret Women's Business' with the female Avar Banes. This just added to the distaste.

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Summary: The apex of the genre.
Review: While I regard this genre as my guilty little secret, an escape from the demand of more "serious" literature, I truly love it. Up until now however, I have felt like this genre was missing something, that it all had been said and done and that it was tiring out. This series opened my eyes to the fathomless possibilities that still exist. I now know that I can come away from a series fully satisfied and yet, somehow aching for more. Lately some bright lights have appeared in this genre, and I would have to consider Sara Douglass as one of the best. If you like epic fantasy I would recommend this series heartily. I look forward to once again slipping into her rich world with the release of the next trilogy in the States.

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Summary: Lazy, lazy author
Review: Wow. Sara Douglass apparently missed the lesson in writing class that taught that synonyms are your friends. She really liked the word "cuddled," for some reason. People never hugged, babies were rarely cradled, and bodies were seldom pressed against each other. Also, she seemed unable to think of many other epithets besides "b^tch." I don't really have a problem with it being used to make the characters realistic or whatever, but it's just annoying when it's used as often as it is in this book. I felt like it was on practically every page during some sections, like the whole Smyrton and Artor battle section, and everywhere around Caelum's kidnapping. It constituted 90% of the insults hurled by Douglass's men against her women... which strikes me as sheer laziness on Douglass's part.

Rating:
Summary: Lazy, lazy author
Review: Wow. Sara Douglass apparently missed the lesson in writing class that taught that synonyms are your friends. She really liked the word "cuddled," for some reason. People never hugged, babies were rarely cradled, and bodies were seldom pressed against each other. Also, she seemed unable to think of many other epithets besides "b^tch." I don't really have a problem with it being used to make the characters realistic or whatever, but it's just annoying when it's used as often as it is in this book. I felt like it was on practically every page during some sections, like the whole Smyrton and Artor battle section, and everywhere around Caelum's kidnapping. It constituted 90% of the insults hurled by Douglass's men against her women... which strikes me as sheer laziness on Douglass's part.