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Summary: Starts out really slow, but the effort is worh it.
Review: When I first starting reading this book, after the Dragon Prince novels, I was extreemley disapointed.The book would spend as many as 100 pages on one character, and then suddenly jump to another. This is especially difficult when your reading a section on a boring character, and all you want to do is get it over with and see whats happening with your favorite character. However, after about mid-way through it slips into the Dragon Prince method where you'd constantly jump between characters, and never spending too much time on a single group. All in all, it is a very good book, and fans of the Dragon Prince series or of Melanie Rawn shouldn't hesistate to check it out.
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Summary: Quite, quite wonderful
Review: This book was a wonderful experience for me, I was at first intrigued by the lovely cover art, and the contents of the book turned out to be just as beautiful. I read a lot of fantasy, but rearly have I come across a world so complex with characters as truly human. From the very first chapter I was hooked, and couldn't put the book down. I felt for the characters, I was happy, sad and angry, I laughed and cried, and I cannot say that is something all books make me do. I can recommend this book to everyone.
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Summary: A wonderful and intricately-woven fantasy!
Review: I've been reading Melanie Rawn's books ever since "Dragon Prince" first appeared, and this is simply the best yet. Brilliant characters (as usual, for Ms. Rawn), and an intricate world surrounding them. A truly great story that kept me reading all the way through, and extremely anxious for the succeeding volumes! This promises to be one of the best fantasy series available, once it's completed.
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Summary: Rawn does it to me again!
Review: When I read Melanie Rawn's first Dragon trilogy, I did nothing till the end of the third book but read; I could not put it down. Same with the second trilogy. When I saw that she had another one started, I deliberately waited until the second book in the set came out before starting. This book was well worth the wait. Rawn is an author can totally captivate you, involving you in the epic before you by the middle of the second page. Hurry up with the third one, Melanie!
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Summary: great characters, mediocre book
Review: I give the characters a score of 10. They were captivating and obviously meant something to the author. The storyline had me reading the book at lightning speed. not because i was enthralled but because i was skipping or skimming entire chapters at a time. The jabberings on about things fairly irrelevant to the story were uninteresting to me. I would like to read the sequel to see how it turns out, but have not yet been able to locate it.
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Summary: The greatest book I've read. COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I was captured in the bright details of 'Ambria' to the point that it became my world. Whenever I had to lay the book aside I would find myself thinking and acting the way that Sarah did. 'Ambria' became my world from the second that I opened the book until long after it was finished and closed. Rawn does an exquisite job at involving the reader in the story that she weaves so brillantly. The characters are not just one dimensional figures but are transformed into more than a three dimensional character. At times in the book it is hard to determine that difference between what is happening in the fantasy world and what is going on in the real word. Rawn is a marvelous story teller and it amazes me how she brings thigs to life. From a non-fantasy reader this is one of the most intriguing books that I have ever read.
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Summary: The greatest book I have ever read!!
Review: Brilliant, I love this book! Political intriuge, scandel, romance, action, suspence, fantasy. This book has it all. If you are a light reader you might consider passing this one by but otherwise you would be a fool not to buy this book.
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Summary: The Best Book I've ever read!
Review: Extremely interesting book, the best book I've ever read. This book has it all, romance, political intrigue, and interesting characters, including one who's personality is the most like mine (Collan). No words I could possibly say would do justice to this book, it is simply the best book I've ever read, it has everything.
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Summary: Very captivating...held me spell-bound throughout the book
Review: Melanie really out did herself in the beginning of this trilogy. There was never a dull moment..and every paragraph seemed packed with vital information. The book seems to reach out and pull you into it. I would reccomend this book to any die hard Fantasy reader. She can't turn these books out fast enough for me!!
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Summary: Intricate, compelling story and characters
Review: Extraordinarily detailed story telling. Just the kind of read I'm always looking for. This novel can truly be counted among the greatest of our time.I've never read an author better able to bring me into their world to live with their characters and really care what happens to them; as if I knew them personally and had a stake in their every pitfall and success.
The compelling setting in a wholly new culture is made to seem so real and vibrant by M.Rawn that you forget you're reading about some fantasy place that doesn't exist. It becomes so true in your own mind that the characters simply are real.
Being a writer of the fantasy genre myself, I can only hope to rise to her astonishing level. I would recomend this book to anyone who enjoys fantasy literature, especially that of Marion Zimmer Bradley or perhaps Sharon Green. In terms of an engrossing read, I think even the most skeptical reader of fantasy is given cause to stop and have a look.
Truly a masterwork by one of my favorite authors.
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