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Summary: A great book
Review: "The Broken Crown" is a great book to read. Michelle West's precice attention to detail creates a vivid picture of the characters, as well as the setting. It also helps disprove the popular belief that women are inferior to men. (Okay, okay, enforces it a little too, but look how intelligent and observant Serra Teresa is! Just because the women have to serve the men doesn't mean they aren't deadly, just look at Princess Mirialyn in the Empire! And the Kalakar! The Dominion women could be equally as dangerous given the chance.) I mean, look at all the corruption between the men over Serra Diora! Who's wrapped around who's finger? Hmmm? (Fairly obvious who is holding the power there) And you really must admit Member APhaniel was really cool, even if he played a small part. Mages are the best! :) Anyway, if you can't handle a long book, this really isn't for you. If you can, read this book! I eagerly await "The Shining Court" and hope it will come out soon. This book was really rated 9 (4 1/2 stars), but it's not an option anymore. (^_^)
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Summary: Not superlative like "Hunter's Death" but gripping nonethele
Review: A compelling storyline interweaving characters from previous novels (Hunter's Death, Hunter's Oath). Well above average in terms of complexity of character and plot. A reviewer wrote that Ms. West has published 6 novels? What are the other three? I look forward to her new novel. When will it be coming out?
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Summary: Broken Crown
Review: Although this book lets the reader enter a richly textured world, West introduces too many characters to keep straight. The characters blur after a while, and the plot remains very static. I only got half way through the book before getting bored. I hope that West continues to write about her alternate world with greater regard for plot.
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Summary: A n Outstanding Series
Review: But do yourself a favor by purchasing Hunter's Oath and Hunter's Death. These two "prequel" books set the stage for the trilogy. After reading this book, I went to those two, which filled in a great deal of information, notably about Jewel Markess.This series works it's way through a remarkable tale and I am waiting with baited breath for the final book. To hold myself in check, I'm re-reading them all. Each one deepens and enriches with each re-read. Bring the last one on!
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Summary: A n Outstanding Series
Review: But do yourself a favor by purchasing Hunter's Oath and Hunter's Death. These two "prequel" books set the stage for the trilogy. After reading this book, I went to those two, which filled in a great deal of information, notably about Jewel Markess. This series works it's way through a remarkable tale and I am waiting with baited breath for the final book. To hold myself in check, I'm re-reading them all. Each one deepens and enriches with each re-read. Bring the last one on!
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Summary: Michelle West has a great imagination.
Review: her imaginative book is not only well thought out but it allows us (the reader) to enter into her world...FANTASTIC BOOK, has everything anyone could ask for, war, love, and a truely wonderful cast of Characters.
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Summary: WHEN IS THE SEQUEL COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I absolutely loved this book. At first, I wasn't sure about it, but once I got into it, I absolutely fell in love with the whole thing. I'd never read any of Michelle West's books before, and now I'm going to have to read more of them. I can't wait 'till the sequel comes out!
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Summary: Extremely slow starts.
Review: I consider myself a person who is usually up to the challenge of a difficult read. But difficult just for the sake of being difficult...
Maybe it's the authors writing style, but this book is bogged down with details and an extremely slow narrative. All the action is killed my the passive voice. What makes me not like this series so far (I've read up to book 2) is the way the author takes very simple things and somehoe finds a way to present them in a twisted convuluted fashion. I mean, I understand if a situation is complex...it should be written so. But two characters having a mundane conversation should not sound like a passage from the bible.
Exmple:
"She opened the door, feinting as she stepped out"
Turns into
"She heard him say something, brushed his words away with the heavy wave of a hand, took a step toward the doors and teetered there, on the edge of night.
And fell in"
- Michelle West, The Uncrowned King
You don't really figure out that the character feinted until a few paragraphs later in the story. Almost everything is written like this, especially in Book 2! It is so annoying!
I personally do not want to read poetry when I am supposed to be reading prose.
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Summary: Amazing Book!!
Review: I first picked this book up because I loved the cover, then I started to read it and found out how amazing it was!! The story line is great and well thought out. The next ones had better be as good!! How many are there going to be???
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Summary: approach with caution, good but ..........................
Review: I have to begin by offering a caution against starting these books. Underneath it all ,[I will explain 'it all' in a moment],the base storyline in these 4 books is very good. And again if you can wade through 'it all' the characters are engaging and likable and the bad guys,[kialli],are very evil and at the same time you are drawn to them in their tortured existance. The base story IS good and it is engaging if you can wade through the authors' incredibly pedantic prose and some of the longest run-on sentences and poor sentence structure I have ever come across. And no I am not an english teacher and I have not studied any form of english grammer since high school many years ago. But her writing style makes these faults so glaring unless you are utterly illiterate you can't help but become aware of it. Some of these sentences are so long they run to a full paragraph. You get so lost in them you have to go back to the beginning and try to break the sentence down to figure out what the hell the author is trying to say! Many times during the story it becomes almost impossible to tell which of the characters is speaking at any given time, sometimes there is simply no way to tell.
However, I kept reading and I am still not sure why. As I said before underneath everything the story is really good but it is hard to follow and as the books progress it begins to seem that she is making it up as she goes along. Yes, I know that that is the nature of writing but let me explain what I mean. It seems to me that as the books progress characters in the story evolve into soemthing different than they were originally conceived to be BY THE AUTHOR, in the beginning of the story. The character of Avander is a perfect example. In the first book he is a servant, albeit a surly, menacing, cold, servant but no more than a servant with a somewhat cloudy past. By the 4th book he has gained 3 other names that I can figure, is immortal and some kind of an all powerful 'warlord'. But he is still a servant?
Yeah, I know this does not make sense. Neither does the bizarre and gaudy alternate dimension mansion they get stuck in. The so called Arianni and the Winter Queen show up in the fourth book and become critical to the plot but they were never mentioned in any of the earlier books. It seems that she gets tired of her storyline and her characters while she is writing and just randomly adds entirely new elements and storylines at a whim. They have no place in the earlier books and were never mentioned in the main storyline where they would have fit in IF they had in fact existed in the mind of the author at the start of her writing. Approach these books with caution. They will draw you in but they are not all that well written.
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