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Summary: Fantasy at its best
Review: Keyes is a stunning author, able to create worlds that suck you in and plots that keep you turning the pages as fast as you can. The Waterborn is some of his best work.When writing fantasy, it seems like many authors are prone to falling into the trap of overused settings, trite plot developments and stock characters. Keyes is not one of these authors. The Waterborn is a story that contains both fluidity and depth- there is a continuity and logic to everything that happens, and his characters are unique individuals, all of them capable of great good and great evil, none of them perfect in any regard. The Waterborn is set in a unique world, and each of the richly-developed characters must come to terms with their role in it. Their stories converge in an epic plot that will make you as eager to unravel what's really going on as they are. This is not a book to pass up- it's pure magic.
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Summary: Fantasy at its best
Review: Keyes is a stunning author, able to create worlds that suck you in and plots that keep you turning the pages as fast as you can. The Waterborn is some of his best work. When writing fantasy, it seems like many authors are prone to falling into the trap of overused settings, trite plot developments and stock characters. Keyes is not one of these authors. The Waterborn is a story that contains both fluidity and depth- there is a continuity and logic to everything that happens, and his characters are unique individuals, all of them capable of great good and great evil, none of them perfect in any regard. The Waterborn is set in a unique world, and each of the richly-developed characters must come to terms with their role in it. Their stories converge in an epic plot that will make you as eager to unravel what's really going on as they are. This is not a book to pass up- it's pure magic.
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Summary: Lots of stuff from J. Gregory Keyes is on our Web site!
Review: On the Del Rey Web site we're featuring J. Gregory Keyes as one of our most important up-and-coming authors. We've got all sorts of background material on THE WATERBORN and THE BLACKGOD, an interview, Greg's top 10 book picks, and other stuff at http://www.randomhouse.com/delrey/author/keyes/
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Summary: A Story of a Young Princess and a Sheepherder turned Warrior
Review: The book has two plot lines that eventually come together in the style of George Eliot. The first plot line is of a young teenage princess trying to first find and then escape from the rivergod. The second is of a young boy on his first adventure, which turns into a run for his life to escape the rivergod. The ending was disappointing. In my opinion, ending the book 50 pages earlier would have left it on the right tone. The book itself, however, was very well written and, even if you don't like the plot, you won't be able to put it down
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Summary: Good premise yet a little to dark
Review: The book was a good story of heirarchial life in a fantasy kingdom. It was a new idea of having gods embodied in the rivers and trees themselves. The two main characters were a little to similar, they were both partially outcasts among their families, they both had a mission, and they were both very powerful. Although the ending was slightly strange, overall I thought it was an enjoyable book.
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Summary: The Waterborn
Review: The Waterborn is an excellent book. It is one of the best books I've ever read, with its mixture of romance, adventure and fantasy all rolled into one it makes it the perfect book for almost anyone. With the exotic but bewitched princess Henzi, the valent hero Perker, his brave yet humble friend Ngangata, the ancient one Brother Horse and the gods such as Harka and the changling make it so you don't know if they will ever meet, survive or just what they will do next. So I recemend this book to anyone between the age of 12 and 100 to read this book and its sequel the Black god. Both by J. Gregory Keyes.
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Summary: The Waterborn
Review: There are many fantasy books out there to read. So, it's refreshing to find something that's not the typical take-off of D&D game play. Given the chance to get used to J. Gregory Keyes style of writing, the story sucks you in and you find yourself identifying with the main characters, as it should be. At the end of the story you are left wanting more, which I am sure is what the author wanted. The only dissappointment I find is in waiting for the next volume of the series to come out in paperback.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: There is not much I can say about this book other than it is INCREDIBLE. I read it when I was about 12 and it has remained my favorite book since then.
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Summary: Good Fantasy
Review: This better than average fatasy is a good easy read even if it feels as if I've read this before. While this book doesn't break any new ground, it gets all the standard parts right. Both of the lead characters are interesting and well developed, and the mythology behind the world is solid.
Pekar is a young man about to make his fortune in the world, when his love for a goddess causes tragedy. A Pricess with a magical connection to a god, must find out why some in her family disappear without a trace, before she suffers the same fate.
Keyes writes with a remarakable well paced prose that keeps the readers intrest the whole way through. While this book does not have the ambition or ideas to make it truly great, I've seen few better for the average boring afternoon.
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Summary: Good Fantasy
Review: This better than average fatasy is a good easy read even if it feels as if I've read this before. While this book doesn't break any new ground, it gets all the standard parts right. Both of the lead characters are interesting and well developed, and the mythology behind the world is solid.
Pekar is a young man about to make his fortune in the world, when his love for a goddess causes tragedy. A Pricess with a magical connection to a god, must find out why some in her family disappear without a trace, before she suffers the same fate.
Keyes writes with a remarakable well paced prose that keeps the readers intrest the whole way through. While this book does not have the ambition or ideas to make it truly great, I've seen few better for the average boring afternoon.
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