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Summary: Phoenix Masters of Magic
Review: The Phoenix are the most powerful mages in the land. The five element masters have sat by and watched a war tear the land apart. Now they have decided to act. The Phoenix is the fourth novel in this series and it is a very good read like the other three. It takes place at the same time as the Unicorn and the Crane. This time though you are following the Element Masters of the Phoenix. All the characters are quite imppressive and well thought out. This one has a few spots where it slows down but it usally follows these up with a battle. The plot twists are frequent and really leave you wandering what is going to happen next. Also the magic that the Element Masters is quite impressive. Some of the things they do are quite cool. The only problems with this book are that parts can be slow. Also like all these books there are a lot of characters with similar names making it hard to keep track of them. Of course on the plus side they added a glossary to the back of this one.
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Summary: good for late comers
Review: this book told the story of the corruption of the phoenix clan and how it palys out in the clan war a very good book for fans of the l5r game who like me came into l5r during hidden emperor
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Summary: This Book Burns Itself
Review: With the Scorpion novel, Sullivan proved that he could make a villain into a sympathetic character.Would that he could do the same with a hero like Isawa Tadaka. Tadaka is on a quest to halt the depradations of the sorceror Yogo Junzo. Despite this sounding like the primal hero's journey of Joseph Campbell, in actuality this is nothing more than an extended quest for Tadaka to do silly, lethal hat tricks. He befriends natives of the Shadowlands, the hellish locale where Junzo lurks, but they somehow prove inept at surviving their own front lawn. When Tadaka finally catches up with Junzo, the leaps of logic simply pile up. Then, magically, Tadaka is transformed into something EVIL. No mucking about here; Tadaka goes from an obsessed, but good, priest to a demon-worshipping man who murders his best friend. Sound bad? That's not all. No fewer than four other major protagonists populating this book. Skip it.
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Summary: This Book Burns Itself
Review: With the Scorpion novel, Sullivan proved that he could make a villain into a sympathetic character. Would that he could do the same with a hero like Isawa Tadaka. Tadaka is on a quest to halt the depradations of the sorceror Yogo Junzo. Despite this sounding like the primal hero's journey of Joseph Campbell, in actuality this is nothing more than an extended quest for Tadaka to do silly, lethal hat tricks. He befriends natives of the Shadowlands, the hellish locale where Junzo lurks, but they somehow prove inept at surviving their own front lawn. When Tadaka finally catches up with Junzo, the leaps of logic simply pile up. Then, magically, Tadaka is transformed into something EVIL. No mucking about here; Tadaka goes from an obsessed, but good, priest to a demon-worshipping man who murders his best friend. Sound bad? That's not all. No fewer than four other major protagonists populating this book. Skip it.
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