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Summary: eh, dont have a title.
Review: ah crap, i'd completely forgotten that Onslaught was my first magic book and stated Mirrodin was my first instead! not that any of you care, its just bothering me that i put that false info out there.i also read this book several months ago, so my memory of it isnt that fresh.
anyway so there i was a bright young magic player curious about the stories in the cards i enjoyed so much. and.. i chose onslaught. why? because i wanted to read about Akroma. if you see her on the cards, she's this beautiful, strong, white-garbed, bejeweled angel that radiates .. um, something. and if you play the game and look at her card, its a bit crazy all the abilities they give her and such. im iffy about this book but i give it 4 stars because it wasnt that bad. its just that, i loathe reading about the main character, and i dislike its view of akroma. which is of course, unfair because i already created in my mind my own view of her.
however, kamahl returns in this book and if you read the odyssey cycle that may please you. so do a few other enjoyable characters. oh, it might depress you if you're fond of green (the forest) but then again, it seems a lot of magic books are like that.
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Summary: One of the best Magic novels...
Review: As far as Magic novels go, I think this is one of the best. I just started, and I already find myself engrossed. Ixidor, by far, is the most interesting character and very easy to get drawn into. Kamahl is...strange. However, he seems to have a purpose. The pit fights are well described, along with every other aspect so far. I hope to see something of Silvos, Rorix, Visara, Arcanis and Jareth! If not, oh well. Braids is interesting, especially because I have her card.
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Summary: Stunningly Beautiful
Review: I cant believe anyone would give this a bad review it is easily the best book I have read. Ixidor(to bad he dies), Phage, and Kamahl are all worthy replacements for the characters in the invasion cycle. (But I still cant believe the angel Akroma ruining everything Ixidor tried to create)
For a book based on magic it was a great book and I hope King keeps them coming.
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Summary: Stunningly Beautiful
Review: I cant believe anyone would give this a bad review it is easily the best book I have read. Ixidor(to bad he dies), Phage, and Kamahl are all worthy replacements for the characters in the invasion cycle. (But I still cant believe the angel Akroma ruining everything Ixidor tried to create)
For a book based on magic it was a great book and I hope King keeps them coming.
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Summary: Enjoyable
Review: I love to play Magic: The Gathering, and this book helps deliver the story behind the cards. It has a character to each emotion and/or personality. Two are despairing, two are hateful. One soul is driven by greed, another by self-lessness. One soul has been driven to utter madness... another was already there, and never really cared much about sanity. There is a character for everyone to enjoy in this book, so you will like at least some of it, guranteed.
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Summary: Awesome book... but too many spelling errors.
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed the tale and have started reading the second in this trilogy. The book was very well written and had a decent flow at the beginning which transformed into an excellent flow in it's conclusion. The author did a good job in making you care about the main characters' conflicts and left you wanting to read onward. The last 8 or so chapters really made this book shine. I whole-heartedly recommend this book. The only draw back was the spelling errors. You would think that someone who could use "quintessential" in coherent sentences would be able to spell "unphased" and "reigning" correctly. Not to mention the other smaller errors such as words being put in past-tense/plural-form incorrectly or the lack of past-tense/pluralization. Those tiny errors are understandable in the rough draft but how did those slip by editing? Who allowed this to be published with those? Never-the-less, a superb read.
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Summary: Kamahl is Back!
Review: I was VERY pleased with this book. Kamahl was always one of my favorite characters and now he's back,and better. The fact that he's a druid is so cool. I have read many Magic books but this is one of the best. King is a great author who also wrote the Invasion Cycle (My favorite cycle).
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Summary: vintage King
Review: One of the best books I've read in a while. It's really encouraging to see King write a book that was as well crafted as Time Streams. If you've read any of his previous stuff, (artifact cycle) the book is very entertaining and explains the Onslaught story very well. It's the first story in months I've thought was a must buy, especially if you're a MTG fan.
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Summary: Onslaught
Review: Onslaught is a cool book. It has a lot of fighting in it that is fun to read. In this book, there are four main characters. Kamahl was a barbarian, but now he is a druid. Jeska, Kamahl's younger sister, has been turned into an evil person named Phage. Ixidor is a creator that makes things alive out of clay, painting, etc. Akroma is an angel that Ixidor had created in his dream. Ok, now that everyone is introduced, Onslaught is about Kamahl trying to bring Phage back to Jeska. Though, Ixidor wants to kill Phage, because she had killed his beloved, Nivea. So, Ixidor makes Akroma to slay Phage. However, Kamahl believes that Phage can become Jeska again and still believes that she is his sister. So, while Akroma tries to kill Phage, Kamahl protects her. Now, Kamahl and Phage ally to kill Akroma and Ixidor. So, they have this big was at the end to kill each other. It is a very complicated book, but if you read it you'll get.
I liked the book Onslaught, because it has a lot of cool fighting in it. There are pit fights and wars. J. Robert King explains the battles very well. So the reader won't get confused. J. Robert King also created these characters very well. He explains them in very good details. Another reason why I liked this book is that its plot is very interesting. Here is a quote from the book that explains a part while they are fighting, "Kamahl used his boot again, smashing it on the flat of the blade and shoving it ground-ward. The arm of the barbarian was too strong, though. The blade swept on. Putting all his weight on the boot, Kamahl stood on it and kicked his other foot into the barbarian's throat. He continued the motion, flipping backwards and landing out of reach, among piles of the dead." Onslaught is an exciting book.
Some things I disliked about the book was that it got a little too confusing at some parts. I had to read the same part over and over again. Here is a quote from the book about a confusing part, "The angel's feet struck the shaft and broke it into two. An explosion of green fire roared out of the shattered stalk. For a moment, it eclipsed Akroma, Kamahl, and Phage. When the initial blaze diminished, green force remained, clinging in viney lines to Akroma's legs. It emerged from the riven ends of Kamahl's staff and dragged her down." This part was confusing to me, because I did not know where the green vines came from and how. Then I found out it came from the staff at the broken ends. That part was only a small confusing part. Onslaught does actually have some misunderstanding parts.
My favorite part in Onslaught was the end where they have the massive war. It is my favorite part, because it had the most exciting and action parts. Some parts in the book had nothing fun. Though, at the end it had me reading and reading. I recommend this book to anyone that is interested in magic and action.
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Summary: not bad, but not a lot of fighting/character longevity
Review: There really is not enough fighting in this book. WHen there is fighting, its just not as cool anymore, considering that Kamahl went goody goody and now uses a wooden staff. Almost everyone dies already. I wonder what the second and third books will have left. Not the best Ive read.
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