The Darksteel Eye (Magic the Gathering: Mirrodin Cycle, Book 2)

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Summary: Zero the Hero's Review
Review: "The Darksteel Eye" was a fairly one dimensional book. There is not very much too it, except for basically rehashing the first book in the cycle, "The Moons of Mirrodin." Running away from the enemies, searching for items that are in places the characters have already been, except they wern't "ready" to understand the items use, or "wouldn't believe it."

This book has a severe time disorientation. It is so hard to follow time because it will take many chapters for the characters to go from, say, the plains to the swamp, while then it takes them only a chapter break to go from the center of Mirrodin to the forests on the surface. It seems the Mirrodin block is all about visiting the five mana sources (plains, swamp, islands, mountains, and forests) because in everybook they somehow, for some reason, need to run to all of them, and fight the same creatures in all of them. There is always, ALWAYS, fighting going on, and it gets very old because the fights are not that engaging.

However, despite the one dimensional characters and plot, there is one moment in the book that I felt some serious emotion for the "bad guy." I really felt for him, and had a lot of empathy for him. It was an extremely sad part, for me.

They also find an item that wasn't even in the cardset for "Darksteel." This item didn't come out on card until the next set, "A Fifth Dawn."

Despite the flaws in this book, I am still going to read the next book because I am interested in the final interaction between the heroes and Memnarch, and then, as the back of the book states, the planeswalker Karn, who created Mirrodin. Hopefully it won't be a lot of running to every part of the world in some undescript amount of time, and unneccesary battles up until the last couple chapters - but I'm not holding my breath....

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Summary: Worst Book Ever
Review: Don't even bother with this one. All it is is a bunch of running, fighting, and whining, repeated over and over again. The characters are all boring and one dimensional. Go read the Brothers' War or something.

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Summary: magic the gathering darksteel eye
Review: This book is called Magic The Gathering: Darksteel and is the second book out of the Mirrodin saga and it was great. It's about three heroes: Glissa Sunseeker is a young elf who is trying to get revenge from the loses of her family, Slobad Goblin Tinkerer is a goblin who is a mechanical wiz, and Bosh Iron Golem a great golem searching for his memories. This saga takes you through their adventures through Mirrodin and at the end through the final battle between Glissa Sunseeker and Memnarch. This book has a ton of action in it and I could barely put it down. The plot of the saga is that there is an evil wizard called Memnarch and he wants to take control of the world. The story takes place on a world called Mirrodin. In this world everything is part metal. The genre of this book is fantasy. I would recommend reading the first book out of the saga first or you wouldn't get a lot of what's going on. I would get this book if you're a fan of the Magic The Gathering card game or you just like fantasy. The mood of this story is dark but some parts are sad. The three heroes face a lot of challenges in their adventure and they go through a lot of loses during the saga. The author's name is Jess Lebow and he uses a lot of vivid language in the book and he likes to use a lot of detail to describe the creatures, buildings, and landscape. Overall I think this is a great book and I would check it out.

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Summary: Who Can Save The Planet Of Mirrodin!
Review: This book is the sequel to Mirrodin's cycle. This book Stars previous characters such as Glissa, Solobad, Bosh, and the founder of Mirrodin Memnarch!, This book also has the expansion of Cards, which stars Myrs, wizards, and Drakes! and the new option of having indestructible cards!!! so read the book and play the game! "Dark Steel"! So if you enjoyed the previous book and have high expectations of this book, my opinion doesn't matter you must judge it for yourself! treat yourself to the legacy of Mirrodin that is "Dark Steel"

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Summary: Darksteel Eye
Review: This book was quite boring. Mirrodin was pretty slow too but this one was just hard to finish even though is was about 300 pages long. One problem I noticed from the time I picked up the book was that it was a different author from who wrote Mirrodin. I mean come on! HOw can you make a succesful block with 3 different authors(Fifth DAwn has a different author as well).
Also theres not enough characters, you get tired of just reading about Glissa, Bosh, Slobad, and the wolf(forgot his name) running away from nim and Vedalken. And they are constantly fighting and running away all through the book. It gets kind of old after awhile. I don't really even feel like finishing up the series.
If you hadn't start reading the series yet dont! Read the Onslauhgt block and legends block instead.

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Summary: We want King back...
Review: This whole Metal Plane thing seemed dumb to me from the beggining, and neither Mr. Mcderrmott, or Mr. Lebow are showing the skill they had in previous books, and are no longer worthy to follow up on a genius like J. Robert King. I don't care what happens to any of these characters, I just want the cycle over so we can move on.