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Summary: Fast and Furious
Review: Great action, gut wrenching battles. Excellent character creation.
Doyle and McDonald are GRRRRREEAATTT! Other then that, It a good read
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Summary: Action Pack
Review: Great use of previously invented Sci Fi paraphenalia, lots of action, would love to see a good movie made out of it.
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Summary: ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS ALL-TIME
Review: I greatly enjoyed reading "Price of the Stars" i found it to be a great combination of magic and technology. i think i can best compare it to the STAR WARS trilogy, one of my all-time favorite stories. the fast-paced adventure and realistic, original characters made for a great reading experience. i couldnt put the book down, the first or second time. and, i think the best part was the fact that the protaganist was a female. :) great job all around. i look forward to reading the rest of the Mageworlds books.
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Summary: An Amazing Journey To Another Universe!!!
Review: I have never read another Sci-Fi book that could top this one, and I can't wait to read the sequels, which I have on order. I am a huge fan of Star Wars and I love Sci-Fi, especially a well written space novel, so this is one of my all time favorite books, me being a bookworm and therefore having read a lot of books. One of my favorite aspects of Star Wars has been the Force and Jedi Knights, and although this book has similar things (Adepts and Mages equal Jedi Knights and Dark Jedi, with special staffs and strage powers), these things are original and unique at the same time. Wonderfully real characters with great settings and events written masterfully, equals an unforgettable journey that I recommend to anyone who enjoys a simply great book.
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Summary: Magnificent!
Review: I love this story and these characters. I can identify with Beka, and I adore Jessan. Just the sort of adventure I sometimes wish I could have. The characters are full and complex, and therefore very fascinating. Also, it's not your typical "hero" story, or a Xena-type thing; a fresher take on female heroes.
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Summary: Fun. Fun. Fun. Fun.
Review: I loved this book. Actually, I like all of them in the series. But, I agree with one reviewer, I want this book to be filmed! It was fun (I said that already) exciting, humorous. Great characters and gadgets, without being hard SF. This is Galactic Fantasy/Space Opera at its best. If there are to be no more Mageworld books, could be at least have more space opera from the married duo? Please?
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Summary: I thought that this was exciting and humourous book.
Review: I very much liked this book. Once I started reading it I didn't want to put it down. I thought that the action was well done and some parts were very funny. At times I was cracking up. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who loves Science Fiction.
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Summary: An enjoyable read
Review: In the first installment of the Mageworlds, Beka Rosselin-Metadi agrees to captain her father's prized starship Warhammer, and sets off on a mission to find her mother's assassins. What follows is a grand adventure with non-stop action and intrigue.I really enjoyed this book. The characters were well developed and very interesting. I especially liked Beka, with her multiple personas and how we begin to understand her feelings about her estranged family. I also liked the mysterious "Professor" who's identity was an enigma until the very end, and Beka's brother Ari, with his unusual background. In fact, all of the characters were likeable, with their own distinct personalities and quirks. I loved how they were thrown together by unusual twists of fate, yet managed to become an effective team. The action was great. The plot was interesting and original. There was a surprising amount of humor and witty dialogue. And technology didn't overwhelm the storyline (definitely a plus for me). There were a few spots where it slowed down a bit, but then it picked right back up again, and I couldn't stop turning the pages. I will certainly be looking for the next book in the series, Starpilot's Grave, to see what happens next for this unusual group of friends.
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Summary: An enjoyable read
Review: In the first installment of the Mageworlds, Beka Rosselin-Metadi agrees to captain her father's prized starship Warhammer, and sets off on a mission to find her mother's assassins. What follows is a grand adventure with non-stop action and intrigue. I really enjoyed this book. The characters were well developed and very interesting. I especially liked Beka, with her multiple personas and how we begin to understand her feelings about her estranged family. I also liked the mysterious "Professor" who's identity was an enigma until the very end, and Beka's brother Ari, with his unusual background. In fact, all of the characters were likeable, with their own distinct personalities and quirks. I loved how they were thrown together by unusual twists of fate, yet managed to become an effective team. The action was great. The plot was interesting and original. There was a surprising amount of humor and witty dialogue. And technology didn't overwhelm the storyline (definitely a plus for me). There were a few spots where it slowed down a bit, but then it picked right back up again, and I couldn't stop turning the pages. I will certainly be looking for the next book in the series, Starpilot's Grave, to see what happens next for this unusual group of friends.
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Summary: Annnnd They're Off!
Review: Kicking off my second-favourite on-going space-opera series (aside from my brother's books, which i am *required* to like), this was a refreshing find back when i first pulled it down off the shelf and read the first couple pages... and discovered that i had to finish it that same day.While, as someone has pointed out, this *could* be read as a stand-alone book, unlike the first books in some series, a reader who stops here will be missing a lot of fun in the sequels and prequels that follow.The Rosselin-Matadi clan and their friends and enemies are all marvellous characters, but Beka's mentor and co-pilot, known only as "the Professor" is the most amusing and frustrating of the lot, as it becomes more and more obvious that he, somehow, is manipulating history itself.What sets this series aside from more ordinary space opera, i think, is the concept of the Adepts and the Mages -- both posessors of great power, who both sense and utilise what, for want of a better word, we might call "the Force", but in completely different and mutually-conflicting manners. The three Rossellin-Metadi siblings, Beka, Owen and Ari, so different superficially but so similar in their drive and inability to admit defeat are worth getting to know, and the associates and enemies that they pick up along the way are a marvellously-assorted crew (not all of whom are even *nearly* what they appear to be). But i must admit that the villains -- as opposed to adversaries, an important distinction in these books -- are just a bit *too* slimy and odious. {If i ever run into the authors, though, i intend to ask them if they were thinking of "Rio Lobo" or of "Assault on Precinct 13" when they wrote one important sequence...}Recommended -- both this book and the entire series.
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