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Summary: Read it yourself and decide.
Review: Maybe this book is a situational book. It really depends on where you are in your life. If you are looking for something to believe in or for someone to tell you,"It's ok kiddo, everyone goes through this garbage" then this series is perfect for you.I worked in a large bookstore for a couple of years. Whenever I had a parent who was trying to find something inspirational for their teenager,or a teenager who was looking for something, anything, I ALWAYS suggested this book. It is very good for someone who is has willing suspension of belief (to me this not a bad thing. why else read fantasy).I also feel this book is very good for someone who needs to see what a positive, healthy relationship between two fully developed adults should aspire to be. Sioned is young, independant and a tinsey bit unsure of herself or her position in Rohans heart<although she would not let the world see this>. These are feelings that everyone will feel. It is important that it be reinforced that those feelings are normal and "ok". I also think it is important that it be demonstrated to most people that one can completely open onesself up to a person with out loosing oneself or their individuality. Love (in any interpersonal relationship) is something given freely and does not intentionally hurt the other person or yourself. All of the couples in this series are fully developed individuals who are not MADE complete by the other person because they already ARE complete,but still depend on them. Also Rohan is a good guy. He has tough decisions because the decisions he would make as a man do not neccessarily coincide with those of the Prince. These are the same things we have to deal with. As well as how to get along with people we do not like, and family pressures. Miss Rawn also did a wounderfully tasteful job of portraying the physical love. We get to peak into their lives and their hearts but not into their lovemaking. We also have the torn personal alliances as well as the really rotten antagonist <who you really want to see just absolutly ripped to shreads--you will love to hate him> Princesses getting in the way and being awful <cant wait to see them publically humiliated--will start having dreams of strangeling them with your bare hands>. Also the full scope of emotion--elation to failure. I would hope that all young people--or people looking for something would read this book. It is inspiring and demonstative of so many things that we would all hope for... ...Justice...Appreciation...Love...Acceptance. Jeanne = )
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Summary: Captures my attention from page 1
Review: Dragon Prince, by Melanie Rawn is honestly the best book I've ever read. I found the best aspect of the book was the development of the characters. As time progresses, Rohan and Soined, the main characters, adapt to each other and their surroundings like nothing I've ever seen before. This book is definetly a 'must have'.
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Summary: Politically tactical, yet thrilling and heart stopping
Review: People in this series are introduced to you as new borns, but are followed through life. The reader shares in the charachers laughters and mours their deaths.
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Summary: Dreadful characters drag down a couple of good ideas
Review: Like many others, I was attracted to this book by MIchael Whelan's beautifully drawn covers. Having heard some good things about Melanie Rawn from friends, I decided to give the books a try. Starting with the bad things I found in the book, here is my opinion: I was immensely disappointed to discover that the book's characters were poorly written, with no personalities to speak of. I would call them one-dimensional if it were not far higher praise than they deserve. in drawing her characters, Ms. Rawn seems to have mistaken inconsistancy for depth. The characters were, almost without exception, even flatter than the paper on which their tiresome adventures were described. Rohan was not only uninspiring but offputting as the goody-goody hero. (He's even a conservationist!) When he finally does do something that is not stereotypically good and selfless, it is so forced and out of line with what the reader had previously been shown of his personality (such as it is) that it only detracts. Rawn obviously tries to make Rohan's character complex; she succeeds only in making it mostly random. The other characters are even more shallow. Rawn hardly even bothers to give the people on Rohan's side distinguishing details to help the reader tell them apart. And such detail (or a program) is sorely needed. They are all cast of the same mold as Rohan: clean-cut, honest, self-sacrificing, brave, and good friends with one another. Any nation with such a uniformly excellent class of leaders would have almost no cause to fear anything. Alas, such leaders do not exist. Have you EVER heard of a nation led by by a perfect man, uniformly good in all respects? (The actions that, to him, prove his "barbarity" are so random and uncharacteristic that they cannot be included in any intelligent discussion of Rohan's personality.) I have not. The book, quite frankly, was BORING. The good guys were all noble and virtuous. The bad guys were all lazy, selfish, or greedy. The plot was more like a parking lot than a roller coaster. At no time (no, not even once) was I surprised by the direction that the plot took. Rohan defeated his enemies so easily, with so little failing to go according to his decidedly uninspired plan that there might as well have been no resistance whatsoever. Rohan's enemies are so easily fooled by even the most childish schemes that I was amazed that anyone could genuinely fear them. The bad guys make mistakes by the cartful, while the good guys, with (of course) no margin for error, pull everything off perfectly every single time. I could continue with a detailed critique of almost every single character, decrying them all as flat and stereotypical, but I have taken up as much space with my criticism as I care to. Now to get to the good things that I found. I liked the idea of the Sunrunners, though it was so poorly realized that, although entirely original, it seemed as stereotypical as the rest of the book. Oh, and I liked the dragons too. Anyone who wishes to e-mail me an opinion of my opinion is perfectly welcome.
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Summary: I would have given it zero stars, if that were an option.
Review: Not only were the characters shallow and annoying (personally, I found Rohan to be arrogant and pretentious), but a big part of the plot was implausable. I have one word to say in regards to that: inflation.
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Summary: Reading this provided many dull moments.
Review: Someone recommended this book to me, and I thought he had taste. Until I read it. Rohan and Sioned's relationship did seem like it came right out of a romance novel, and pretty much digusted me. Granted, it got better by the end, but give me a break! Rohan himself was pretentious and arrogant, with his same thoughts repeated over and over throughout the book. Give me something new! not the same thoughts repeated in different words. The last five or ten pages seemed like a waste of paper, and believe me, it wasn't a big finish but a dull anti-climax. The book would be better if the editor had had more guts. Cutting out a few repetitious sections would have been a huge improvement. And all the references to sex seemed very juvenile in my opinion. So, if you're fifteen you might like it, but for those of us with more demanding tastes: it's a waste of time!
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Summary: A Classic
Review: A big fan of dragons, I neglected to read M. Rawn's books for years. A huge mistake. This book, indeed all her books (new series included), are wonderful. I cannot say enough good things about them. Any book that can make me laugh, cry and rail against the author for killing off a character is one to hold onto. (I know I'm not the only one who loved Kazander) Only Rawn, A. McCaffery, L. Hamilton and M. Lackey measure up to these high standards.
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Summary: an awesome debut book
Review: melanie rawn's debut book about people with the ability to communicate with the sunlight is number one. she weaves a rich tapestry of people, dragons and their mysterious secret. she opens their lives to us and doesn't hold back on who they are and what makes them tick. their lives are as true as our own, especially the modern day issues that are able to transcend time and place. readers will fall in love with rohan and sioned as they battle their own personall demons and the schemes of others who will use them to no end so if your loking for a great read pick up dragon prince and all of rawns sunrunner books
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Summary: A good read.
Review: Having an M.D. in English literature, I should know that this book is ranked in my top 10 out of my 1000 or so books I have read and top 5 out of my 100 or so fantasy books. I believe that more people should read the book. It has excellent character development, plot development, and is very interesting.
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Summary: Move over, Barbara Cartland!
Review: I can't believe I wasted my money on this piece of trash. It seems to me that Ms. Rawn simply wrote a girlish romance novel and dropped it into a fantasy setting. If you like Fabio, then this book is the one for you!
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