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Summary: A great adventure with a sense of mystery and magic.
Review: A great novel. Eleret is so innocent it's pathetic. The adventure is entertaining, especially with all the characters you meet along the way. Lord Daner is a stubborn boy but is cute along the way while Karvonen is a great theif who is always acting macho and getting into trouble. The great detail in this book is enough to give you a hint of what the author is talking about but not too much so your imagination can complete the picture. I greatly reccommend this for adventure/fantasy lovers
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Summary: This is the BEST!!
Review: Anyone who doesn't like this book should stick to all that scientific stuff thats all factual and no fun.This book was so good, that even my brother is considering reading it.The characters were realistic and the bad guys weren't the kind that get annoying after a while because they just keep hanging on.And it wasn't the usual old fairy tales with a prince and a peasant.I'd give this book a heck of a lot more stars than five if I could.
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Summary: Pure Excitement
Review: I absolutely adore this book! Eleret is one of my favorite characters in all of literature, and I love her friends too. I have read this book more times than I can count, and highly recomend it too readers of all ages. It has plenty of action, and just the right amount of romance to be believable. I like how Eleret is capeable of taking care of herself in the big city, but is smart enough to realize that she needs a guide to help her, especially with the trouble that seems to be following her. Someone killed her mother, and now that same someone seems to be after her, and the ring that he mother wore. And even worse the someone seems to be a dreaded shadow-born, the soul stealers.
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Summary: Pure Excitement
Review: I absolutely adore this book! Eleret is one of my favorite characters in all of literature, and I love her friends too. I have read this book more times than I can count, and highly recomend it too readers of all ages. It has plenty of action, and just the right amount of romance to be believable. I like how Eleret is capeable of taking care of herself in the big city, but is smart enough to realize that she needs a guide to help her, especially with the trouble that seems to be following her. Someone killed her mother, and now that same someone seems to be after her, and the ring that he mother wore. And even worse the someone seems to be a dreaded shadow-born, the soul stealers.
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Summary: This book is my favorite ever!
Review: I adore anything written by Patricia C. Wrede, but this one is even better than average. I had to borrow it from a friend because for some strange reason most of her amazing works are out of print. This book moved so seemlessly that I finished it in less than twenty-four hours. I stayed up many hours past when I was planning on going to bed to read it and after finishing it I simply couldn't sit still! This is a flawless story, it just moves perfectly with Ms. Wrede's beautiful touch.
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Summary: This is wonderful!
Review: I adore anything written by Patricia C. Wrede, but this one is even better than average. I had to borrow it from a friend because for some strange reason most of her amazing works are out of print. This book moved so seemlessly that I finished it in less than twenty-four hours. I stayed up many hours past when I was planning on going to bed to read it and after finishing it I simply couldn't sit still! This is a flawless story, it just moves perfectly with Ms. Wrede's beautiful touch.
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Summary: This book is my favorite ever!
Review: I have read this book 5 times and have enjoyed it every time like it was the first! Karvonen is my favorite character because he is a sarcastic, short, brave, and exaggerating little person...he reminds me of me! Eleret is interesting but way too naive to be realistic, and Daner is the archetype of virtually everyone in the world~egotistical yet courageous.Overall I recommend this book to anyone who can read English~it has everything;action, interesting characters, and a little romance between the two favorites! (P.S. Ms. Wrede, if you're out there, WE WANT A SEQUEL!)
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Summary: Excellent, quick read
Review: I haven't read any of Wrede's other Lyra novels, and although I really enjoyed the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, they were nothing in comparison to this book. An excellent story is told within, with engaging characters and a solid plot. You'll find yourself really caring about Eleret's fate by the end.
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Summary: A Definate re-read!
Review: I just LOVE this book! I got it from the classroom of my aunt, an english teacher, and I can't count the number of times I've read it since. My friends are constantly asking to borrow it; they've read it almost as much as me. I have always loved the Enchanted Forest Chronicacles, and this is like a more complex, exciting, plausible, and hard to put down version of them. The charecters have belivible personalities, and Wrede makes you feel as if you know them. The story is wonderfuly exciting and unpredictable, and every time you re-read it, you get something more out of it. It's extremely hard to be so good as to give someone else a chance to read your copy-I know I couldn't part with mine. Whatever you do, get a copy of this book and I gaurantee the only thing you'll be wishing for is a sequal!
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Summary: multi-leveled fun
Review: I like this author anyway, and I think this is her best book. It is a murder mystery, a romance, a comedy of manners, and a good fantasy novel, especially as a wonderful example of fantasy/sci-fi's ever-present theme of "culture shock". It is extremely readable, excitingly fast-paced, has a lovely heroine, and does not falter in the details.
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