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Summary: The Ultimate Sell-Out
Review: Any self-respecting fan of the Darksword Trilogy will be doing themselves a grave disservice by reading this. They take the series's ending--which actually *meant* something--and render it all useless! It's really just this side of sacrelige; it's as if Shakespeare wrote a sequel to King Lear in which it turns out that Lear and Cordelia aren't *really* dead after all--it completely destroys any dramatic impact the original might have had. Ever since I've read this book I've been trying to disassociate it from the original series in my mind; it's actually not all that hard, given the noticable drop in quality since the original--it feels like it was written by an entirely different author.
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Summary: Legacy of the Darksword
Review: Authors: Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
The barrier preventing magic from escaping Thimhallan has been shattered; magic has been spread back to the people of earth. At the end of the Darksword trilogy, Earth and Thimhallan were on the verge of war, only to be pulled back from it by Joram, who broke the barrier holding the magic in Thimhallan, using the darksword, the null-magic sword. In doing this, the darksword was destroyed. The barrier being broken caused great storms to break out. The people of Thimhallan were immediately shipped out to earth, only Joram and his wife with the unborn baby stayed.
Now, twenty years later, a mysterious alien race is threatening earth and its people, they are called the Hch'nyv, they accept no treaty, nor do they want peace, they only want to destroy. The only way to stop this alien race is to use the darksword which has been said to have been forged anew by Joram. Saryon, Joram's best friend has been convinced to bring Joram and his family to earth, away from the threatening Hch'nyv. Joram does not want to go. He is convinced that Saryon wants the sword. Joram's daughter Eliza decides that if she brings the darksword to the military base on Thimhallan, they will leave her family alone. In the dead of night she leaves, followed by Reuven, Saryon's personal secretary. In a stroke of luck, the Darksword was not obtained by the Technomancers, dark mages that use magic only to further their own selves. Now, Eliza, Reuven, Scylla and Mosiah (Scylla is a secret agent of the king of the Thimhallen people, and perhaps an agent of god? Mosiah is an Enforcer, one of a certain group of people that is able to use magic), must join together to try to save Joram and maybe even mankind with the newly forged darksword.
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Summary: Legacy of the Darksword
Review: Authors: Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
The barrier preventing magic from escaping Thimhallan has been shattered; magic has been spread back to the people of earth. At the end of the Darksword trilogy, Earth and Thimhallan were on the verge of war, only to be pulled back from it by Joram, who broke the barrier holding the magic in Thimhallan, using the darksword, the null-magic sword. In doing this, the darksword was destroyed. The barrier being broken caused great storms to break out. The people of Thimhallan were immediately shipped out to earth, only Joram and his wife with the unborn baby stayed.
Now, twenty years later, a mysterious alien race is threatening earth and its people, they are called the Hch'nyv, they accept no treaty, nor do they want peace, they only want to destroy. The only way to stop this alien race is to use the darksword which has been said to have been forged anew by Joram. Saryon, Joram's best friend has been convinced to bring Joram and his family to earth, away from the threatening Hch'nyv. Joram does not want to go. He is convinced that Saryon wants the sword. Joram's daughter Eliza decides that if she brings the darksword to the military base on Thimhallan, they will leave her family alone. In the dead of night she leaves, followed by Reuven, Saryon's personal secretary. In a stroke of luck, the Darksword was not obtained by the Technomancers, dark mages that use magic only to further their own selves. Now, Eliza, Reuven, Scylla and Mosiah (Scylla is a secret agent of the king of the Thimhallen people, and perhaps an agent of god? Mosiah is an Enforcer, one of a certain group of people that is able to use magic), must join together to try to save Joram and maybe even mankind with the newly forged darksword.
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Summary: Legacy of the Darksword
Review: Authors: Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
The barrier preventing magic from escaping Thimhallan has been shattered; magic has been spread back to the people of earth. At the end of the Darksword trilogy, Earth and Thimhallan were on the verge of war, only to be pulled back from it by Joram, who broke the barrier holding the magic in Thimhallan, using the darksword, the null-magic sword. In doing this, the darksword was destroyed. The barrier being broken caused great storms to break out. The people of Thimhallan were immediately shipped out to earth, only Joram and his wife with the unborn baby stayed.
Now, twenty years later, a mysterious alien race is threatening earth and its people, they are called the Hch'nyv, they accept no treaty, nor do they want peace, they only want to destroy. The only way to stop this alien race is to use the darksword which has been said to have been forged anew by Joram. Saryon, Joram's best friend has been convinced to bring Joram and his family to earth, away from the threatening Hch'nyv. Joram does not want to go. He is convinced that Saryon wants the sword. Joram's daughter Eliza decides that if she brings the darksword to the military base on Thimhallan, they will leave her family alone. In the dead of night she leaves, followed by Reuven, Saryon's personal secretary. In a stroke of luck, the Darksword was not obtained by the Technomancers, dark mages that use magic only to further their own selves. Now, Eliza, Reuven, Scylla and Mosiah (Scylla is a secret agent of the king of the Thimhallen people, and perhaps an agent of god? Mosiah is an Enforcer, one of a certain group of people that is able to use magic), must join together to try to save Joram and maybe even mankind with the newly forged darksword.
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Summary: Great way to do it...
Review: Being a reader of the previous dakr sword books, i was pretty schocked to find this on my bookstore's shelves, where else coudl they take the series? Well they took it and did a fine job. True it wasn't as good as the first three books, it was a great book. Some have ridiculed it for for numeroius reasons, such as T.V. not being there, yet radio and internet access is, and askign why aliens would want to destroy earth. those people must have stopped at the first thirty pages. The aliens didn
't want to destroy earth, they wanted to destroy everything non-them. Have you ever heard of the borgs in Star Trek? Sometimes races (in fiction and in real life: humans) don't like other people. they kill them. this race didn't like threats to their dominance, they tried ot kill them.
As for television nopt playing any part, while the www did, well I spend more time online and listening to the radio than the T.V. I do this because the T.V. contains hours of fictional junk, and an hours or two of good news. Radio is mostly news or music, much more of a direct way of getting what you want.
I loved the story, and was glad to see another Weis/Hickman on the shelf
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Summary: What happened here?
Review: Between this and the new Dragonlance books, I'm beginning tothink Weis and Hickman have no new ideas left. Instead they'veresorted to revisiting (and ruining) their old series in an effort to drag out another story. Case in point: "Legacy of the Darksword." We return to find the earth being attacked by a faceless alien race. Why? Who are they? What do they have against Earth? Nobody knows. We never find out. Some new one-dimensional characters are provided to fill in the gaps. Nothing really works: the emotion seems manufactured and the 'time line' plot is straight out of a bad Star Trek episode. Save your time. People who have read the original trilogy will likely agree it's one of their best. I picked up the newest novel with a mix of excitement and dread: after all, it's been 8 years and I'm not in middle school anymore. Now I'm simply trying to forget the whole thing. It doesn't even seem like Weis & Hickman's writing style. Go for the original trilogy if you want a fantastic read.. but stop there. All hope abandon, ye who go beyond.
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Summary: Slightly entertaining but rather disapointing
Review: Dont read this because it is never intertaining but just cheesebal
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Summary: UNexcellent!
Review: How disappointing! The oringal trilogy is ruined by this after though of a book.
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Summary: UNexcellent!
Review: How disappointing! The oringal trilogy is ruined by this after though of a book.
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Summary: What could have been on the Darksword
Review: I am a huge fan of the original Darksword series. I was thrilled to see them revisit it. I reread the first three books with newfound admiration and absoulute enjoyment. I was afraid to read the Legacy of the Darksword because it would be hard pressed to keep up. It didn't. The alien race was never explained or even interesting without the slightest details of thier motives or who they are. Joram is nothing more than a minor charecter who has absoultely no depth. If you hadn't read the original series Joram had no identity. In some ways this is a pleasant, or not so pleasant visit with old friends but it leaves alot to be desired. The whole hopscotching through time really doesn't work and i finished by feeling cheated. I would still read this or any other Darksword sequals just on the chance that if can recreate that magic.
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