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Summary: Great Story
Review: This book is well written, well thought out continuation of the Rhapsody saga written by a great writer. The story has just the right amount of lore, magic, and action while still allowing the reader to get a much better understanding of the characters especially Ashe. I enjoyed the story thoroughly and you will also. Keep 'em coming Elizabeth !!!!
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Summary: Another Excellent book
Review: Although this book is not quite as good as the first in the series. It is well worth reading. The plot twists keep you reading and the ending leaves you begging for more. I can't wait for the next one.
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Summary: Elizabeth Haydon Does It Again
Review: Elizabeth Haydon does it again in her magnificent sequel to Rhapsody. The book literally kept me up at night as I was enthralled by the magical writing style of Elizabeth Haydon. I became even more enthralled with the characters than I was with the first. In her sequel she leaves you craving for more. Like the character Rhapsody, in the novel, Elizabeth Haydon's writing style leaves you begging for more. It is my contention that she is the future of the Fantasy genre.
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Summary: Wonderful addition to the trilogy
Review: I waited eagerly for thie book ever since picking up Rhapsody in an airport store and devouring it on a plane ride to Australia. I had hoped to sleep, but once I read the prologue there was NO WAY. As soon as I got back to the states I made a beeline for the bookstore and bought Prophecy in hardcover. I stayed up til 4:00 am to finish it. Haydon's writing style is clear and compelling, and I love her characters. This is a fantastic series. I bought Rhapsody in hardcover yesterday for two reasons: 1] I plan to collect the whole series in hardcover and 2] I can't get my friends to stop borrowing the paperback.
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Summary: the plot thickens
Review: But better yet, it does so without going off in innumerable directions! I'd like to congratulate the author (without sounding presumptious) for keeping focused and sticking to an honest trilogy. A lot happened in this book, moving the story forward -not sideways, answering many questions while still leaving enough room for speculation on the conclusion. Ms. Haydon has a good imagination, a way with words and nice sense of pacing. Being a sequel, it can't match RHAPSODY in freshness, but that's as it should be. I began this book at dawn (amn't I an early bird?) and finished at dusk, only taking the occassional break to assure my disapproving family that yes, I am alive, and to do those little neccessary things that prove it. But otherwise I just sat and read until I finished it. Which goes to show my interest. So why am I not raving and calling this the very best, most wonderful fantasy out there, and why did I give 4 stars and not 5? This is the tricky, personal part. First of all: yes, this book is good, and the author is good, and I was very very interested. But okay, it's not perfect. While I did grow to like Ashe, I didn't care very much about him. And as he's an important, emotional character, I should have. I mean, generally I would, and usually an author can make me. But passion and passionate words was all I got as an incentive (and that doesn't work on me) and before that an awkward, inadequately explained friendship that was unreal (not like Achmed and Grunthor or even Jo's). Also, I still didn't feel inclined to cry during appropriate moments (I'm used to more empathy than this author makes me feel). There were frustrating parts when long explanations that the reader had already read was repeated for a character that hadn't been present or who learns same info through different means, and that frankly was not neccessary. However, these are only minor and personal problems, and not something that seriously detracts the reading worth of this book. I'm definitely curious about third-and-last book Destiny: child of sky. P.S.: I'd just like to add that Rhapsody's incredible beauty becomes a lot less irritating. It's part of her character and less of a blind now.
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Summary: An amazing book, an even more amazing author
Review: I would have given this book 6 stars just for it's content. The depth here is superior to any other fantasy I have read besides Lord of the Rings. I love the cahacters both main and secondary. Rhapsody is one of the best heroines I've ever seen. She tranmutes, changes, grows in the story. She has a generous spirit and her devotion to protecting kids makes her a more realistic female character than the Xena babes in other books. Grunthor is wonderful, and Achmed the snake is one of the best characters in fnatasy, complex and fascinating. But this morning I read in USA TODAY that Elizabeth Haydon gave all the money from this book to a pediatric AIDS Foundation. No I see where Rhapsody gets it.
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Summary: Prophecy
Review: Wow! Not many authors have the ability to keep a story line going from book to book and keep the reader glued to the pages no matter what is going on around them. Elizabeth Haydon has the talent to make you love the heros and hate the villans. She doesn't wander through mush trying to make one book into six. She has the ability to make you actually see the scenes and feel the pain or joy of characters. I am waiting "impatiently" for the next book of this series to come out.
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Summary: Prophecy
Review: I recently read the first of what I hope will be an on-going series...Prophecy more than lived up to my expectations.Normally the second book in a series "drops" the reader into limbo. In Prophecy, Isobelle continues to build ALL the characters into very believable people. The two that I enjoy the most are Achmed...for his Oh so cynical attitude(the old softy) and Grunthor, both of whom you meet and love in the Rhapsody... Isobelle, you keep writing like you are and you will also be compared to Andre Norton,Mercedes Lackey and all the rest of the top writers!
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Summary: WOW!
Review: My dad got really mad when I told him I was going to buy this book as a hardcover. Well, I'm really glad I did anyway. This book is a great action- adventure for almost all ages. The first book was good, but this one was amazing! All readers of this book will be waiting on the edges of their chairs till the next one comes out.
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Summary: best new fantasy series bar none
Review: My favorite part of this writers gifts is her ability to combine fantasy, mystery, romance and adventure so successfully. The characters are not stock from anywhere, and their inbteraction is full of unpredictability. Watch out for that starwberry ambush, and see if it doesn't take you by surprise. Better than anything your kid is reading.
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