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Summary: new place, new life?
Review: a good effort in the continuing of the mage wars saga... as the other reviewers have already explained in great detail of the plot, suffice to say that this book generally deals with the settlement of white gryphon when they are negotiating a treaty with the haighlei people. most of the action takes place in the haighlei city, khimbata. i find that the story are rather, well, too slowly paced. there's hardly a sense of urgency to it and thy dwell much too long in the diplomatic stuff. it's good though, with the emphasis on how skan is faced with his approaching middle years.... quite funny. the plot is okay in sense that you can only second guess the perpetrator of all the mess, since you can't actually think of how he did it. but i do think that the ending during the eclipse ceromony (not the action part, but the end of it) are a little too contrived... too easy an ending. however, it is great to see that winterhart is no longer the idiot she was in the first book and there's also some hmm... jeasousy?... in the oh-so-cool amberdrake that's realistic portrayal in a relationship. overall, a good book, but not really her most astounding effort.
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Summary: Splendid!
Review: A worthy successor to the Black Gryphon. It's fascinating to watch our old friends dealing with an entirely different culture. I found myself wishing the later Heralds of Valdemar would run into these southern neighbors. Excellent plotting. And I particularly loved the kids.
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Summary: Not bad, but definitely room for improvement
Review: After finishing The Black Gryphon, I was looking forward to this book. Unfortunately, this book had very little of the intrigue and action of the last book. It was interesting to be introduced to another culture, and one so different from the rest of the world of Valdemar, but I finished it feeling a bit disappointed.
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Summary: Not bad, but definitely room for improvement
Review: After finishing The Black Gryphon, I was looking forward to this book. Unfortunately, this book had very little of the intrigue and action of the last book. It was interesting to be introduced to another culture, and one so different from the rest of the world of Valdemar, but I finished it feeling a bit disappointed.
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Summary: A good whodunit
Review: I agree with the "reader from the Good Ol' US of A." Just because it doesn't have action from start to finish doesn't mean it's a dud. It's a good murder-mystery set in an exotic location and just HAPPENS to have gryphons and mages in the cast of characters. I thoroughly enjoyed it!!
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Summary: Even more captivating than THE HERALDS OF VALDEMAR!
Review: I first saw THE WHITE GRYPHON one year ago, in a book store. I skipped past it, thinking it was uninteresting. When I finally bought the book, I stayed up all night just to finish it. I just regret I didn't buy it before
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Summary: It's very awsome and entertaining! I couldn't put it down!
Review: I got the book from a thrift store,surprised someone would give
it away.The best book I've ever read!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: The Black Gryphon is back-- but he's white now! =)
Review: I just can't see how anyone can NOT like it. I mean, all right,maybe it doesn't have as much action as The Black Gryphon--SO WHAT? Are authors allowed to have a change of pace now and then anymore? Besides, I think it's got plenty of action--the murders, when Skan and Drake get kid- and gryphon-napped by Hadanelith (spelling?) and when Skan saves the Black King, Shalaman, as the Black Gryphon again. I think that's gotta be my favorite part of the whole book. Also, be sure to read Black Gryphon first. I read this book first, And I was totally confused abuot a lotta stuff. ~Dragonblade END
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Summary: A disappointment
Review: I just don't see what other people see in The White Gryphon. I have a hard time even articulating the depths of boredom and disappointment I felt about this book. The story seemed as though it were trying to be a mystery novel, but there was no mystery. Who the culprit was wasn't ever in question and the accomplices were never given enough personality to care about their motives. The characters that I so adored in the previous story felt hollow and only a shell of their previous sympathetic and humorous selves. The moaning over responsibility felt like a betrayal to the heavy burdens carried by the same people in The Black Gryphon. The social protocol created tension, but it was a tension that endured throughout the entire book, never really leading anywhere or giving any relief. Mostly I was left feeling like -- "What's the point?" On the upside the book itself is blessedly short.
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Summary: A disappointment
Review: I just don't see what other people see in The White Gryphon. I have a hard time even articulating the depths of boredom and disappointment I felt about this book. The story seemed as though it were trying to be a mystery novel, but there was no mystery. Who the culprit was wasn't ever in question and the accomplices were never given enough personality to care about their motives. The characters that I so adored in the previous story felt hollow and only a shell of their previous sympathetic and humorous selves. The moaning over responsibility felt like a betrayal to the heavy burdens carried by the same people in The Black Gryphon. The social protocol created tension, but it was a tension that endured throughout the entire book, never really leading anywhere or giving any relief. Mostly I was left feeling like -- "What's the point?" On the upside the book itself is blessedly short.
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