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Summary: THE PHEONIX AND THE LION.
Review: I HAVE READ ALL SEVEN OF THE SCROLL BOOKS AND IF I COULD GET MY HANDS ON ANOTHER I WOULD WALK OVER CRUSHED GLASS TO GET. THREE BOOKS STOOD OUT OF THE SERIES, THE SCORPION, THEPHEONIX AND THE LION. MY GOODNESS HOW THE BOOKS CAME TOGETHER AT THE END WAS JUST FASCINATING. NOTHING IN THE BOOKS WERE PREDICTABLE. IWOULD WAKE IN THE MORNING AND READ, GO TO BED AT NIGHT AND READ, GO TO SLEEP AND DREAM OF THE CLAN WARS. FOR ME AS A PRACTISING MARTIAL
ARTIST,[2ND. DAN KARATE] THIS WAS LIKE THE DAYS OF OLD.........YOU GUYS IN THE STATES ARE LUCKY YOU CAN GET THESE BOOKS AND NOT HAVE TO WAIT UP TO TWO MONTHS LIKE I DID. THE THREE NAMED WERE BRILLIANT, THE SCORPION SETS THE SCENE, THE PHEONIX GIVES THE SERIES THE MYSTIC WAYS AND FINALLY THE LION, WELL THE LION, I STILL CARRY THE EXCITEMENT AND THE SORROW. I AM STILL LEFT WITH SOME QUESTIONS OF WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM ALL AFTER,BUT LIVE IN HOPE THAT MR. SULLIVAN WILL CONTINUE.THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND PLEASE TREAT YOUSELVES TO THESE BOOKS AS YOU WONT REGRET IT.
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Summary: Out With a Smaller Boom than Expected
Review: I really have been loving this series, but the conclusion didn't live up to all I had hoped for. Apparently Stephen didn't bother to read the previous books written by his cohorts, and decided to skew the meticulusly created characters. Toturi's character was nice but not delved into enough. The other character's profiles seemed totally off from how they appeared in the other books - not only that but some events even seemed to occur differently!! The final battle seemed to drag on for ages, with people going to their "last" ounce of strength over and over and over again. While it was still a good book, it definitly was not the sort of conclusion the series deserved. I am very suprised the man who crafted The Scorpion wrote something this starkly different.
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Summary: Starts off well - but OUCH, those last seventy pages ....
Review: The great finale to the Clan War starts with more story and background on the Lion Clan characters, and picks up the story of the other main characters in this series. For about 200 pages, it's a solid read and consistent with the best books of this series ... and then it goes downhill fast in the last seventy or eighty pages. Perhaps Sullivan was rushed in finishing the book, perhaps he felt there was little to add to what had been written game-wise ... but suddenly all the characters start behaving and talking like modern-day teenagers instead of honorable samurai, with lots of short phrases and repetitions in the writing as well. The huge battle on the outskirts of Ottosan Uchi drowns in endless skirmishes and reprises of the same action (he said , he said, he said ... 20 times in as many phrases / went there, came back, slaughtered dozens of bad guys .... again and again). The entire finale should've been written more in the style of Ree Soesbee's prologue of The Dragon, but I'm afraid Sullivan didn't keep up the quality of his first instalment (The Scorpion) with the end of this book (and I'm not talking about how the story ends, but rather about the writing itself).
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Summary: A Satisfying End to A Great Series
Review: This book was great! I thought Sullivan did a good job of weaving together the elements of the previous six books and then bring the characters together for the final show down. There were some points when I was confused, but all in all it was a great finale. I am sorry to see the series end. I think Sullivan also respected the traditions of Samurai well and did not create easy outs for characters...even when they realized their mistake. It had a VERY Asian feel to it. I hope they write more.
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Summary: A Satisfying End to A Great Series
Review: This book was great! I thought Sullivan did a good job of weaving together the elements of the previous six books and then bring the characters together for the final show down. There were some points when I was confused, but all in all it was a great finale. I am sorry to see the series end. I think Sullivan also respected the traditions of Samurai well and did not create easy outs for characters...even when they realized their mistake. It had a VERY Asian feel to it. I hope they write more.
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