Chainer's Torment (Magic: The Gathering--Odyssey Cycle, Book II)

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Summary: Great Book!
Review: an awesome book, but im questioning whether is really good, or just good. Odyssey was, i hate to put it this way, but, garbage. I advise ANYONE to stay away from anything written by Vance Moore. i think what made torment seem so good, is that odyssey so bad. though the book was extremely good, emotional, the ending was nice too, i look foward to scott's next book for magic, he seems promising just by reading torment.

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Summary: good, but not brothers war
Review: an awesome book, but im questioning whether is really good, or just good. Odyssey was, i hate to put it this way, but, garbage. I advise ANYONE to stay away from anything written by Vance Moore. i think what made torment seem so good, is that odyssey so bad. though the book was extremely good, emotional, the ending was nice too, i look foward to scott's next book for magic, he seems promising just by reading torment.

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Summary: magic lovers' extrordinairre!!
Review: Chainer's torment,an astounding tale of the world of magic and a young cabalist in Cabal City.Book two of the odyssey cycle.Chainer is ordered by the Cabal Leader(A.K.A.The First) to meet up with Kamahl the barbarian,a pit fighter with a high chance of winning the mirari, an orb which is a well of infinite energy.Chainer and Kamahl become the house team for the cabal but split up when the First ask them to take a dive against Kamahl's sister, Jeska and a dwarf, Balthor. Kamahl refuses so Chainer takes them on himself. When he fights them he gets his arm blown off.
The message in this book is saying that "with power comes responsibility".If you cannot contain your own power you will become only the broken shell of a human being.

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Summary: Interesting read
Review: I've read most of the Magic: the Gathering books, and this one is one of the more interesting and well-written one. The concepts in the book brings new light to the mechanism of Madness (cast something with less mana) and Nightmares (how dementia masters bring out perverted versions of creatures that are even stronger than the real ones). Since I play MtG, this is very interesting, and card for Chainer fits well with the powers in the story. However, I do have a gripe that the ending is too sloopy. When I finished the book, I get the feeling "what? this is it?". It's like the author reached the limit of his book and had to end it quickly. Other than this gripe, this book is the best among the Odyssey Cycle.

Rating:
Summary: Interesting read
Review: I've read most of the Magic: the Gathering books, and this one is one of the more interesting and well-written one. The concepts in the book brings new light to the mechanism of Madness (cast something with less mana) and Nightmares (how dementia masters bring out perverted versions of creatures that are even stronger than the real ones). Since I play MtG, this is very interesting, and card for Chainer fits well with the powers in the story. However, I do have a gripe that the ending is too sloopy. When I finished the book, I get the feeling "what? this is it?". It's like the author reached the limit of his book and had to end it quickly. Other than this gripe, this book is the best among the Odyssey Cycle.

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Summary: magic lovers' extrordinairre!!
Review: If you've read the first book in the Odyssey cycle, get this one yesterday. If you haven't, get Odyssey AND this one and get reading. I read it in one 5-hour sitting. Obviously, I couldn't put it down.

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Summary: Odyssey continues!
Review: If you've read the first book in the Odyssey cycle, get this one yesterday. If you haven't, get Odyssey AND this one and get reading. I read it in one 5-hour sitting. Obviously, I couldn't put it down.

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Summary: One of the best books I've ever read
Review: That's not saying much considering I don't read a lot, but this book is awesome. The parts with Llawan and Laquatus are kinda boring but they don't ruin it by any means. I didn't really like the ending, but overall the book was 5/5 for me. This is one of the few magic storylines I've actually given a crap about. (The other being weatherlight.)

Even though the Odyssey cycle has been gone for over 2 years, you should definately still pick this book up.

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Summary: Pretty good sequal
Review: The book is about a man named Chainer who we met briefly in Odessy, this book goes over a bit of the history of the Mirari that everyone wanted in the first book(and still wants in this book), The Cabul that runs the pit fights, and the powers and way of becoming a dementia caster. The book is kind of slow in the beginning It goes through what happoned in Odessy only this time its from Chainers point of view. After that it gets more interesting as more people and groups fight for the Mirari and for control of everything from Otaria to the Mer Empire. Overall very good book with an ending that leaves you wanting the last book as soon as possible.

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Summary: great book
Review: this book is really good. while the Odyssey Cycle isn't my favorite Magic cycle (which is the Artifact Cycle and the Ice Age cycle), Chainer's Torment is still a worthy buy for anyone that likes Magic books.