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Summary: what!!!!
Review: quitre possibly the weakest, most badly written ending I have ever read on a series... it was so bad it made me swear off any further books by the author... i just don't want to invest time in a book or series that might have such a marginal payoff at the end..
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Summary: Army tanks do not belong in a fantasy world!!!!!
Review: Read the first two books and then make up your own ending.
If you read this book, it will ruin the first two for you.
So resist the temptation.
The merging of the modern world into an imaginary fantasy world should never happen, yet the authors try to do this.
Why? Why ruin such a great story?
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Summary: This is a good series- some philosophical nonsense
Review: Sure not everyone will like this book. In fact there are three very different reactions to this book and the rest of the series. 1.You LOVE it! (That's me) 2.You think it boring but okay. 3.You hate it and belive that the authors really diapointed you on writing this book. This review is designed to turn the later 2 into the former. This is why. This was a great book. It is perhaps the single best example of Sci-Fi or Fantasy books to comment on something you see everday since Asimov. Its story is brillient but I wont ruin it for you. Its about not belonging in world that once didn't belong. Its about how horrible people can be to those of us who arn't as good as others. Its about forsaking something to save it. Its about magic. Its about technology. Its about the power of Life and Death. Its about human nature, it weakness and strength. Some said the ending was weak but I thought it made the perfect conclusion and the most logical one. The characters are very 'human' as we can see from Joram's lust for magic although he wants to defend people from oppression. It will defenatly give you some of those humurous and dramatic places that live in your mind. I'm sorry that not everyone will like this book but, in the end, that's what its about
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Summary: Joram & the Darksword return!
Review: The Final book of the Darksword Trilogy. Weis & Hickman have outdone themselves with this series.
Joram returns from death... will he now deal out death to Thimhallan or return to death?
The meeting of two worlds, long lost to each other, and the changing of Thimhallan forever!
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Summary: OUTSTANDING! MAGIC AND SCIENCE COLLIDE!!
Review: This book and the series as a whole was the single most attention grabbing trilogy I've ever read. I couldn't put the books down. I would literally fall asleep in the pages trying to stay awake reading. The battle between Magic and Science in this book was spellbinding. This series has the best working system for magic and its usage I've seen yet. I love the Catalyst "Life" transferral routine. A must read for all Fantasy lovers who enjoy getting into the characters and appreciate the context within the text so-to-speak, who don't get upset and complain when the story doesn't turn out the way they preconceived it would. This book and Trilogy as a whole rates as the best I've ever read...(and I've read a slew of Fantasy books and Trilogies.)
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Summary: Great Twist
Review: This is a great book. Someone said this should be sci-fi, but I disagree. Sci-fi IS Fantasy. W+H make a radical but verosimile twist to the story, that just can bring more power to it and fulfill the Prophecy. The ending is great, I mean the climax. The post-climax, is ... too much blah-blah and explanations. But, all other is just great. Thing is, if you just want a repeated structure of fantasy and cliched heroes, this is not the book. This one keeps all the "Mythic hero" structure found in 99% of this kind of books, but with many changes.
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Summary: Finale ruins the trilogy
Review: This was nurdling on along just fine as another Hickman and Weis fantasy trilogy; nothing out of the ordinary, but perfectly readable. Then you get to the end of this book, and it all completely falls apart. Boy, but did they ever ruin things here. Sigh.
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Summary: Good Characters and Setting, but Poor Plot
Review: Throughout the first two books, the characters are developed very thouroughly, as is the setting. In the first two books, the plot strands were compelling and well woven. There was intrigue, and romance, and everything was clearly building towards a climax that would reach beyond the novel and question the ideas about love and marriage in real society today. However, in the third novel, in the beautiful fantasy land where winged messengers flutter, centaurs savage the countryside, kings sit on golden thrones. something very stupid happens (in my opinion). The plot takes a 180 degree turn and tanks start rolling through blasting everything with lasers. I'm serious, they are actually tanks, like the American ones in Iraq The themes concerning love are abandoned, the winged messengers are murdered, and the centaurs dissappear. To cap it all off, the novel ends very anticlimactically. You will be happier just reading the first 2, i don't recommend Triumph of the Darksword. You can buy it if you want though, cause i like all the other weis-hickman novels and i want them to make money.
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Summary: Expected more...
Review: With the previous books being so great I expected a culmination for the trilogy. It seems as it was written by another person that hasn;t seen the previous ones. She mixes up things between science and magic and if this is not enough you are forced to complain for such an ending. I finished the book and stayed 5 minutes in silence trying to understand how could they ruin an excellent pair of books, then i realized: a Horrible end in the third one.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Yes yes yes, I understand that the book did not end the trilogy in the way ppl wanted not so nicely packaged and in fact a half ending that leaves you longing for more, BUT it has to end somehwere doesn't it? The madness must stop SOMEWHERE! And I think it ended very well in the dramatic way it did.
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