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Summary: difficult read - demands very hard concentration
Review: Although it is an important part in the entire story about Urza's Legacy and the Weatherlight stories to follow, it demands a lot of concentration to connect the different story-threads that range over a vast period of time, making huge leaps by decades & centuries
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Summary: Bloodlines to me.
Review: Bloodlines was my favorite MTG book ever. This book started as I have to read this book because I need it for my book report. By the end of the book I was ready to be in MTG world fighting with Urza and Barrin, if your an MTG fan this is a MUST READ.
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Summary: Detailed, elaborate and nice characters
Review: Books that span a vast amount of time are always hard to read, and to write, I imagine. Still, its nicely done here, if you keep concentrating. I personally really like the characters, no all good heroes and all out evil bad-guys. I also enjoy character developement, when in a moment of clarity, I can see it. :) Mr. Coleman can put this title on his resume without shame, under a list of other good novels. One thing irks me though. It seems to end out of nowhere, in my opinion, it seems a bit incomplete and void of closure. Like the ending of Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail. ;)
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Summary: Good, but it feels incomplete somehow....
Review: I don't normally get into MTG novels, but I rather liked this one. Loren does a good job with character development, and I liked the plot--it was a good solid effort and it was overall a very easy and entertaining read. However, it felt like the book was very incomplete. This really struck me, because (having read Loren's other work, particularly his BattleTech novels) this is so very out of character for him. I was left wondering "wha happen? How does it end?"--which is why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5.
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Summary: One of the best Magic books ever!
Review: I have read all of the Magic: The Gathering novels, from the start with the tale of The Brothers' War, to the journeys of Gerrard and the Weatherlight in Mercadian Masques. This book is one of my three favorites (the others being Nemesis and Rath and Storm). But this one sticks out in my mind. The plot for the destruction of Urza, his search for an heir to his Legacy, and all of his friends including Barrin, Gatha, Rayne, Multani, and others. This book has an interesting plot that makes you want to forget all other plans for the day and read instead. I strongly recommend this book!
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Summary: What Happen to the ending?
Review: I liked this book a lot but for it to be the last book in a series it disapointed me. The story was good but the book ends with nothing resolved. I guess that Magic just wants to let this books storyline leave room for other books to branch off from. For me personally I wish the book brought closer to Urza's fight at least.
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Summary: Solid MTG book.
Review: Okay, Loren L. Coleman's "Bloodlines" is not exactly the best Magic the Gathering novel, frankly, it ain't the worst either. The story starts out somewhat poorly. Loren Coleman gives us references of past events that happened in the previous book ( Time Streams, by J. Robert King. Artifacts Cycle Book III ). This is good, just in case we need our memory refreshed if it's been a while since we've read Time Streams. Then, things start to slack. The next 150 pages are, you know, agonizingly boring. Just when I was about to throw this book in the garbage can, the battle sequences become very amuzing and gripping with dramatics. ***Just a note: Most of the battles are in Keld***. The last few pages wrap up the book very well and gives us a cliffhanger and you'll say: "Which is next?" Your answer is: Rath and Storm, which tells the life of Gerrad Capashen, one of the descendants of the Cpashens in Bloodlines. See my review of that for more information. Just read the summary on the back of the book if you want to know the plot in Bloodlines. You can see it here at amazon.com. Well, hope this helps :)
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Summary: Solid MTG book.
Review: Okay, Loren L. Coleman's "Bloodlines" is not exactly the best Magic the Gathering novel, frankly, it ain't the worst either. The story starts out somewhat poorly. Loren Coleman gives us references of past events that happened in the previous book ( Time Streams, by J. Robert King. Artifacts Cycle Book III ). This is good, just in case we need our memory refreshed if it's been a while since we've read Time Streams. Then, things start to slack. The next 150 pages are, you know, agonizingly boring. Just when I was about to throw this book in the garbage can, the battle sequences become very amuzing and gripping with dramatics. ***Just a note: Most of the battles are in Keld***. The last few pages wrap up the book very well and gives us a cliffhanger and you'll say: "Which is next?" Your answer is: Rath and Storm, which tells the life of Gerrad Capashen, one of the descendants of the Cpashens in Bloodlines. See my review of that for more information. Just read the summary on the back of the book if you want to know the plot in Bloodlines. You can see it here at amazon.com. Well, hope this helps :)
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Summary: Author Appreciations
Review: Thanks to everyone who have followed me from earlier fiction in the BattleTech universe to the fantasy world as set down in the Magic universe. It's nice to see that your tastes are as varied as mine. For my latest releases, such as 'Into the Maelstrom,' remember to check under my name and remember, there are two Loren Colemans so sort out the right one.
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Summary: Good for background anyway
Review: While I've been following the series avidly, I was a little disappointed in Bloodlines. The storytelling wasn't up to par on this particular installment - The Brothers' War and Time Streams were both excellent reads, but that should probably be expected when a different author writes each new installment of the series. While Bloodlines did a fairly good job of tying everything together and finishing the detailed history of Urza's struggle against Phyrexia, the events in the book didn't have as much coherence as in the past - they stayed separate, never came together to form an overarching story. For those who felt the story was left incomplete - it was! The history of the Urza-Phyrexia war has been told, but the battle continues in the novels "Rath and Storm" and "Mercadian Masques." The Artifacts Cycle is a story in itself, but it is also the background for the current events described in these books.
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