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Summary: Prophecy:Child of Earth
Review: This book deserves 6 stars out of 5. For a change the second book in this trilogy is better than the first. The characters seem to just jump off the page. You feel like you are part of the story and you are sitting there with Meridon at his time viewer. The only problem that I have with this series is that Destiny:Child of the Sky won't be out until 2001. I highly recommend both Raphsody and Prohecy.
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Summary: Raise Your Voice in a Song of Praise
Review: The prophesies unfold in satisfying splendor, but the romance between Rhaposdy and Ashe filled my heart. Author Elizabeth Haydon evolves their love into trust as well as I have seen in any adventure story. This is a book worth reading on its own but read Rhaposdy first to get the most out of it.
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Summary: Fantastic Book!
Review: Prophecy, child of earth is easily the best book I have read this year, just as Rhapsody, child of blood was the best one I read last year. It is vastly superior to the works of the current "masters" of the genre. The battle scenes are sharp and focused, the emotions raw and real, and the characters are the best in fantasy, bar none. Four different people recommended this series to me before I finally bought Rhapsody because I am so sick of what passes for Epic Fantasy these days.The female characters in this book are amazing--whether it's the dragon, the Grandmother, Oelendra or the two women from the previous book. I think Grunthor and Achmed are the best pair of male characters around. I would recommend this book to anyone who has a taste for fantasy, and even those who don't.
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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: After waiting an agonizing period of time for Prophecy, I devoured the book within two days. I loved how Ms. Haydon has evolved her characters and drew me in even further. One feels as if they are experiencing the emotions and actions of each character as the story unfolds. My complaint? How long do I have to wait for the third!
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Summary: It's Fine
Review: I read plenty of fantasy novels and other genres, so I rate books according to how they compare to many others. This one is average. Author is a talented writer. But I find myself dissatisfied with the level of background detail regarding the characters and the setting, and with how characters interact and show what they are thinking and feeling. Most glaring problem is that emotions seem exagerrated. Seems as if author is telling reader how characters feel rather than showing reader or even better sweeping reader along with the characters. Moreover, she tells us how they feel in overly dramatic ways. This gives the book, like the first in the series, a melodramatic, cartoonish, hysterical and smarmy feel. I'm surprised that readers have reacted to this book with tears, rage and other orgasmic emotions. Good for them it means there are plenty of other fantasy novels out there to please them as much. I must be more discriminating because it didn't move me. I found it readable but light, fluffy, the equivalent of a "B" movie. It's worth a 3, which isn't bad. But for 4 or 5 star reads, the best on the shelves, try MckPhillip or Mckinley, Neal Stephenson, Guy Gavriel Kay, or go back to Stephen Donaldson, Mary Renault, Tolkien. There you will find some books that arouse the emotions.
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: Elizabeth Haydon is fast becoming my favorite author. Her work is funny, touching, scary and warm, with beautiful language and fantastic characters. I can't wait for the next book, Destiny: Child of the Sky.
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Summary: Breathtaking!
Review: I couldn't put this book down! I read it in 2-1/2 days and at one point I was sitting there with tears running down my face and my breath catching in my throat! I read every fantasy / scifi I can get my hands on and it's been a long time since an author has made me laugh, cry, rant and rave and fall in love (Achmed is so cool) - well then, they did it right. I read both Rhapsody and Prophecy in one one week and I can't wait for the third book!
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Summary: Not so bad..well not the worst
Review: I just made it thru Rhapsody and because had nothing else to read went on to this one. I'll concede that at least I was able to finish this book but it didn't move me to tears like other reviewers and overall I wouldn't recommend devoting time to reading it. Ridden with romance novel cliches. The song lyrics are unbearably corny. As with the last novel, the attempts at humor are flat old jokes.
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Summary: ecstatic
Review: this book yet proves the great ability of haydon again she proves another daring novel. As i read prophesy i couldn't put it down an excelent novel by an exellent author
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Summary: The new fantasy master
Review: Even the curmudgeons seem to have a hard time dismissing this new writer. They fume about the "hype" her first book, Rhapsody, received, try to pick it apart and complain, and yet in the end they all kind of grudgingly admit they enjoyed it a lot. Perhaps I am unique in that when I don't like something I'm reading, I don't bother to finish it. It was literally painful for me to put this book and its predecessor down. The characters are beautifully written, full of warts and hidden gifts. The plot hums along, with fast paced action giving way to more methodical, contemplative passages, similar to, gee--life! This is not a book for someone who enjoys mindless pap. It's a book that makes you think, and feel, and marvel that one person can devise such a clever history, can show so many different sides of people, can make you laugh and shudder and cry and want to scream all within a few pages. Prophecy is a much faster read than Rhapsody. It is written without compromise; Haydon takes brave steps with characters that NO other fantasy writer would dare take. She is the new master of this genre.
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