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Summary: This Mages comment on the book.
Review: This book has a lot of good imagery in it. If you are one who loves to read about Dragons, I would highly recomend it. There is a commonality 'tween love, magic, and friendship that is brought together very nicely in this book. I found myself eager to read the next book (which I recomend you have handy). Radford's writings echo the picturesque imagery that is in Natalie Babbit's book Tuck Everlasting.
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Summary: This book is AWESOME!
Review: This is a great book. the many twists and turns are awe inspirering
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Summary: Extremly Spell-binding
Review: This is one of the best fantasy books I have ever read! The characters keep you guessing as to what they will do next. I highly suggest you read it, and its sequels.
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Summary: Maybe one star is too much
Review: This is with out a doubt the worst fantasy book I have ever read. The book is filled with colloquialisms, unimaginative, choppy scenes with little or no detail, unconnected events, and poor editing. Sort of like lets write a (very) low budget romance novel and throw a dragon in to make it a fantasy. Read only at your own risk of never reading another fantasy novel again.
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Summary: Junk Food Fantasy
Review: Well, the first 1/2 deserves the star, the second 1/2 deserves nothing at all (except another trip to the editors).
This is trite junk-food fantasy. The characters are unimaginative, the names are worse. Those tambootie trees . . . I never could take then seriously.
The plot is fairly cohesive for the first two thirds, but when the action picks up it falls apart. The special mysteries are also very obvious and not at all interesting. It takes all of three or four pages when the wolf shows up at the beginning to figure out why he's so special. But overall the plot drags.
Just bland overall. Best thing about the book is the cover art.
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Summary: Don't bother
Review: What first drew me to this book was, like most of the books I've read, the fantasy. I flipped through the first few pages in the bookstore and became intrigued enough to buy it. The characters seemed human enough and independent of one another. Until. As the story progresses, and the characters interact, they become more dependent on each other, not just in the relationship that characters have, but in their bases, their cores. They lost the potential I saw in the beginning, and everything became too cliche. I've only just recently exited junior high school, being a high school sophomore, and I have to agree with my dad in that this book feels like something written for grades seven and eight. It could have been a lot better; the names need revising, the writing needs to be consistent in style, the dialogue needs to be less cheesy. I'm not planning on picking up the next in this series, and that's something I don't often do.
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Summary: Top Book
Review: Wow this was a good book,... This is a magical story aabout a journeyman magician (Jaylor) who goes on a quest to rescue the prince darvile. His quest involves great dangers as he finds out more about himself, the evil one, and the witch woman (Brevelan) who is the daughter of lord krej and has powers different of the commune of magic just as jaylor does. This book has found a way into the top 5 of the books I have read and I dont normaly even like to read so this book does leave an impression. ... Well I hope you read and enjoy this book, so long.
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