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Summary: Prophecy: Book 5 of the Blending
Review: I love this author. Sharon Green writes a wonderful fantasy story. I would recommend all of her books to anyone, if you like fantasy.
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Summary: Prophecy
Review: I loved it! Sharon Green is an excellent story writer; her ideas are fresh, her characters are life-like and believable and the plot was deeply intriquing. Her descriptions go beyond being just "good"; she dives into emotions and appearences with a beautiful grace and ability. The only complaint I have is that the series ended. I wish there was more!
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Summary: Prophecy
Review: I loved it! Sharon Green is an excellent story writer; her ideas are fresh, her characters are life-like and believable and the plot was deeply intriquing. Her descriptions go beyond being just "good"; she dives into emotions and appearences with a beautiful grace and ability. The only complaint I have is that the series ended. I wish there was more!
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Summary: Thankfully not the last for these great characters
Review: I was thrilled with Amazon when this book showed up in my hands the day that it was released. It wasn't long before I had finished another great book by Sharon Green. I was a little surprised, though at other readers' comments, because I didn't have much of a sense of closure at the aside from Tamrissa and Valant's relationship, and I thought that the resolution of the heroes vs. the seated five was a little anti-climactic. Still, I was sucked in to this one and I will be holding my breath for the coming trilogy. This is a great series with fascinating characters and a wonderfully created world. I suggest that if you start it, buy all five books at once so you can read them as fast as you'll want to!
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Summary: Vapid, juvenile books
Review: I will admit that I bought all five of the books out of curiosity--I wanted to know what happened to the characters--but I can't claim to have liked them. The characters are wholly unrealistic, the writing style is juvenile, strained, and uninspired, and the plot drags on repetitively. If you want to read a book where the protaganists are all goody-goody gumdrops and the antagonists are pure evil without any reasonable explanation, where the writing sounds like it was written by an seventh grader with a deadline, and where each segment of the story is retold five times (one for each character), then perhaps you will find this book enjoyable. If you actually do have the patience to wade through all that garbage, then I will admit that Sharon Green had a good idea to begin with. It just could have been executed far better.
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Summary: Vapid, juvenile books
Review: I will admit that I bought all five of the books out of curiosity--I wanted to know what happened to the characters--but I can't claim to have liked them. The characters are wholly unrealistic, the writing style is juvenile, strained, and uninspired, and the plot drags on repetitively. If you want to read a book where the protaganists are all goody-goody gumdrops and the antagonists are pure evil without any reasonable explanation, where the writing sounds like it was written by an seventh grader with a deadline, and where each segment of the story is retold five times (one for each character), then perhaps you will find this book enjoyable. If you actually do have the patience to wade through all that garbage, then I will admit that Sharon Green had a good idea to begin with. It just could have been executed far better.
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Summary: Gets worse not better
Review: Ok, the first book was interesting, a bit slow and redundant when she described almost the same exact scene from five different perspectives, but on the whole it showed promise. The second book continued in the same vein, drawing the story out even more. The third book began to get a bit overplayed. By the fourth book I had just about had enough, but after getting that far in the series I couldn't stop without reading the fifth. Unfortunately, Sharon has one, maybe two, books worth of material which she stretches out over five. The characters seem like they would be complex when you first meet them but there is only so many ways a person can be emotionally traumatized before it gets really old. All they do it whine!
There are basically two types of Sharon Green characters. The evil ones, selfish, self-absorbed and unable to deal with reality, and the good ones, unbalanced, taken advantage of, and always right. Of course the main characters are good and perfect, though emotionally damaged, and they represent the Sharon Green philosophy of relative morality, except when it goes against what these characters believe is right, and uninhibited sexual awareness. She sets up the bad guys as straw dummies of the philosophies that she conceders "wrong" and precedes to tell them how stupid, selfish, and unable to deal with reality they are.
The plot is drawn out far beyond what it should be because everything happens not once, but FIVE TIMES! There are some good points though. Green does provide an intriguing society with a unique point of view. The use of the different elements in the Blending is original as well. Unfortunately, none of these things attain more than a superficial complexity, bogged down as they are by the author's shortcomings.
I would not recommend these books to any but the dedicated fantasy fan, as they will be far too heavy and monotonous for the casual reader.
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Summary: Sharon Green keeps you coming back for more.
Review: The book was very good, and once again you reach an ending you never saw coming. The fate of all of the "evil" characters is very satisfying. You ALMOST feel sorry for them. New threads appear and others are left open for great possibility in the upcoming trilogy.I was a little disappointed with the length of the Tamrissa/Vallant thing. They knew they wanted each other - but I'm glad the way it ended (If you read this Sharon - no more games! They may not see perfectly eye-to-eye, but keep them together!) The dialogue was a bit heavy, but the blending action was great. An excellent read, and it will leave you hungering for the next trilogy. P.S. - Give Naran a cover in the next series, and a full-face of Jovvi would be nice too!
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Summary: Sharon Green keeps you coming back for more.
Review: The book was very good, and once again you reach an ending you never saw coming. The fate of all of the "evil" characters is very satisfying. You ALMOST feel sorry for them. New threads appear and others are left open for great possibility in the upcoming trilogy. I was a little disappointed with the length of the Tamrissa/Vallant thing. They knew they wanted each other - but I'm glad the way it ended (If you read this Sharon - no more games! They may not see perfectly eye-to-eye, but keep them together!) The dialogue was a bit heavy, but the blending action was great. An excellent read, and it will leave you hungering for the next trilogy. P.S. - Give Naran a cover in the next series, and a full-face of Jovvi would be nice too!
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Summary: Absolutely one to get!
Review: The last book of the five books is the best and gives us some surprises as well as good endings to the well worn problems between Tamma and Val. Naran's secret is an amazing addition to the already powerful Blending. The personalities of the Choosen Blending only make this a better book, if you had their power would you discuss how to get out of ruling an empire? The secrets that this book reveals only makes the anticipation for the new mentioned trilogy even greater.
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