Rating: 
Summary: Good, but not Stackpole's Best
Review: First off - I am a really huge fan of Michael Stackpole. I've read all of his long SF/Fantasy, and have even delved into the Battletech (tm) books (though I really don't read gaming-linked books, since I'm not a gamer). However, this is not Stackpole's best effort.Unlike the typical M-S novel, which has a prodigy-hero and shifts back and forth between the past and the present, ultimately linking up in the final few chapters (e.g., Talion: Revenant, Once a Hero), Eyes of Silver has many different threads going, and it's hard to say which character is the true focus of the story. In the acknowledgements, M-S refers to Peter Hopkin's "The Great Game" which is a seminal work on the political and military events of the middle of the 19th century in Northern India and more importantly, Afganistan, where England and Russia vied for control of the area around the Kyber Pass. England had extensive colonial and imperial interests in India, and the knew that the Russian Tsar wanted a piece of that. Who ever controlled the Kyber Pass (the only fully usable passage from the Asian steppes through the Himalyas, would hold the key to the entire Indian subcontinent (the Russians wanted in and the British wanted to keep them out). The native Afgans were lead by a man called Dost Mohammed - a rather brilliant military leader who roundly defeated the British is the 1840's, but at the same time, managed to keep the Russians out. The political and military maneuvering of the two greatest empires - Britain and Russia, became known as the "Great Game" - a series of advances and retreats, diplomatic forays and imperial posturing, much like a good game of chess. Eyes of Silver is clearly indebted to the events of the mid-1800s (even to borrowing place and people names) - but the story fails to fully capture the reader (or at least this one). I applaud Michael Stackpole for his audacity - not many fantasy/sf writers would endeavour to recreate actual complex political events as the basis for a story. Perhaps, if there were fewer characters, and others were more fully developed, the novel would have worked better. If you're like me - working your way through Stackpole's booklist - leave this one for last.
Rating:
Summary: Good, but not Stackpole's Best
Review: First off - I am a really huge fan of Michael Stackpole. I've read all of his long SF/Fantasy, and have even delved into the Battletech (tm) books (though I really don't read gaming-linked books, since I'm not a gamer). However, this is not Stackpole's best effort. Unlike the typical M-S novel, which has a prodigy-hero and shifts back and forth between the past and the present, ultimately linking up in the final few chapters (e.g., Talion: Revenant, Once a Hero), Eyes of Silver has many different threads going, and it's hard to say which character is the true focus of the story. In the acknowledgements, M-S refers to Peter Hopkin's "The Great Game" which is a seminal work on the political and military events of the middle of the 19th century in Northern India and more importantly, Afganistan, where England and Russia vied for control of the area around the Kyber Pass. England had extensive colonial and imperial interests in India, and the knew that the Russian Tsar wanted a piece of that. Who ever controlled the Kyber Pass (the only fully usable passage from the Asian steppes through the Himalyas, would hold the key to the entire Indian subcontinent (the Russians wanted in and the British wanted to keep them out). The native Afgans were lead by a man called Dost Mohammed - a rather brilliant military leader who roundly defeated the British is the 1840's, but at the same time, managed to keep the Russians out. The political and military maneuvering of the two greatest empires - Britain and Russia, became known as the "Great Game" - a series of advances and retreats, diplomatic forays and imperial posturing, much like a good game of chess. Eyes of Silver is clearly indebted to the events of the mid-1800s (even to borrowing place and people names) - but the story fails to fully capture the reader (or at least this one). I applaud Michael Stackpole for his audacity - not many fantasy/sf writers would endeavour to recreate actual complex political events as the basis for a story. Perhaps, if there were fewer characters, and others were more fully developed, the novel would have worked better. If you're like me - working your way through Stackpole's booklist - leave this one for last.
Rating: 
Summary: A good read.
Review: I been a science fiction and fantasy fan for over 30 years and at times I now find it hard to find a book I can really enjoy. Silver Eyes was one of them. Enjoyed the charcter development the universe developed by Stachpole. I can recomend this book.
Rating:
Summary: A good read.
Review: I been a science fiction and fantasy fan for over 30 years and at times I now find it hard to find a book I can really enjoy. Silver Eyes was one of them. Enjoyed the charcter development the universe developed by Stachpole. I can recomend this book.
Rating: 
Summary: Very Good
Review: I have several of Michael Stackpole's works, but this is the first I've found time to read. It starts out well and keeps the reader's interest. The universe he has created is interesting with many parallels with our own. I recommend it to all who enjoy a good military/magical fantasy.
Rating:
Summary: Very Good
Review: I have several of Michael Stackpole's works, but this is the first I've found time to read. It starts out well and keeps the reader's interest. The universe he has created is interesting with many parallels with our own. I recommend it to all who enjoy a good military/magical fantasy.
Rating:
Summary: Stackpole really knows how to keep you interested.
Review: I've read a few of Stackpole's books (i.e. Once a Hero). In all of his works, Silver included, he weaves his story like a multi threaded loop weaves a patterned quilt. It's very exciting and keeps you from getting bored. The only negative is trying to keep everything straight. But even that is made easier by the way the story flows. I truly recommend this book to anyone.
Rating:
Summary: Stackpole really knows how to keep you interested.
Review: I've read a few of Stackpole's books (i.e. Once a Hero). In all of his works, Silver included, he weaves his story like a multi threaded loop weaves a patterned quilt. It's very exciting and keeps you from getting bored. The only negative is trying to keep everything straight. But even that is made easier by the way the story flows. I truly recommend this book to anyone.
Rating:
Summary: Stackpole does it again!
Review: I've read all of Stackpole's Star Wars books, but since reading this book, I have come to believe that he is quite possibly one of the greatest science-fiction and fantasy authors of all time. EYES OF SILVER is an excellent read, fast-paced and exciting. I see a lot of parallels to history in it that I'm sure not a lot of readers have seen. It's really good.
Rating:
Summary: Great world, great characters
Review: Like most of Stackpole's books, this book has characters that leap off the page and a world that really seems real. Stackpole has a way of paying homage to real-world events without it reading as satire or theft. This book was on the slow-side in terms of pace -- not as slow as Jordan or Goodkind, though. The depth of the world more than makes up for it.
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