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Summary: A Masterpiece
Review: This book was fantastic, it keeped me interested the whole time. I litertally could not put the book down. I've read my fare share of books and this has to be one of my favorite books. It has everything action, humor, suspense, romance, and well developed characters. I would recomend this book to any one, If you are wondering weather you should buy it or not I say buy it!
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Summary: a book of heroes
Review: This book was great! Anne Marston is a fantastic author and will most definitly become a fantasy legend. I love how in Kingmaker's Sword she dosen't make the women all meek and docile, they are just as strong characters as the men, sometimes better. Not that the men aren't great, all the charcters are. Marston really has a good, unique style that lets you get to really know the characters, feel their emotions, think what their thinking. That helps mix the suprise and that,"Oh! Now that you point it out, I knew that was going to happen" detials, she made me laugh in one paragraph and bite my nails in frusteration the next. It was absolutly a great book about very heroic people who didn't know they were, trying to save a land from destruction, while at the same time dealing with everyday emotions, saddness, confusion, frusteration, joy. Just an average day. But NOT an average book.
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Summary: Celtic fantasy by numbers. Avoid.
Review: This is the first time an Amazon review has really led me astray. Bought the trilogy before going on vacation and glad it was paperback; hauling this 3000 miles in hardcover would have just further aggravated me.This is a rehash of probably every single stereotype you've seen in Celtic fantasy without much beyond it: the prince-in-hiding, the magic sword, the brainless evil honcho, the Scottish kilts with the Irish accents, and of course the brainy swordwielding princess. None are originally done. This reminds me somewhat of Katherine Kurtz in the fact there's nothing in the plot to surprise me, but at least Ms. Kurtz does a better job world-building. Another reviewer points out that this was in BAD need of a rewrite: he's dead right. When you lose a main character in a period of 2 pages there's not only bad writing but lousy editing. Also, the switch from third person to first person early on is bizarre. The way this sets up for a sequel is also annoying. Net-net, one of the poorer fantasy novels I've read in a long time. Probably a decent effort for a first novel but spend your money elsewhere. Anyone want the other sequels, since I'm not going to read them?
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