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Summary: A tad disappointing.
Review: This is the fourth and final book in The Artefacts of Power tetralogy (following Aurian, Harp of Winds and The Sword of Flame).After failing to make the terrible sacrifice that would have allowed her to claim the Sword of Flame, Aurian and some of her friends find themselves trapped in a time breach. They reappear some eight years later, only to discover nothing but chaos and destruction. Indeed, not only did her failure release the evil-minded Phaerie who, wasting no time, immediately started ransacking Nexis and raping its inhabitants, sowing terror upon the city, but in the meantime Eliseth has also stolen the Cauldron of Rebirth from Miathan and is about to take the last steps that will finally allow her to quench her thirst for absolute power. Aurian has to stop her at any cost if she wants to save the world and the people she loves. Mustering her troops, she embarks on yet another journey to the Southern Kingdoms, towards the final confrontation. Even though I was glad to read more about loveable characters such as Grince the young thief, Chiamh the Xandim Windeye or Shia the great cat, I was quite disappointed by Anvar's almost complete absence from this volume, for he was my favourite. The idea of time travel was quite unexpected too, and even though it was interesting to find out what Hargorn and Hebba, or Zanna, Dulsina and the Nightrunners had become in the eight years that had passed, this device didn't serve any other useful purpose and might have been more thouroughly explored, used to more enriching ends. Although I can say I liked Dhiammara as a whole, I also found this volume somewhat messy and rather grim. Too many things happen and it seems that too many subplots have to be solved. And a fairly high number of people die in bloodshed too. Most of all, I found it was a tad insipid and lacked the suspenseful action of Harp of Winds or The Sword of Flame, and finally the end wasn't very spectacular either. Shame, it looked so promising...
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Summary: PLEASE WRITE ANOTHER BOOK SOON!
Review: This was a great series! I must have read the series at least five times already.I wish she would hurry up and write another book, preferably about Chiamh. He was alluded to a lot in this installment and would be a great character to develop further. I would also like to know what happened to the Cats and to Sara. I have only one complaint about this book. When Chiamh supposedly died at the Nightrunner cave it never told the other's reaction to seeing him alive.
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Summary: I'm a big fan
Review: this was an excellent book and though t was a bit sluggish at first I was still hooked, finding a good fantasy writer is difficult these days but so far I have'nt been disappointed in any of her work.
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Summary: A little dissapointing, but still 5 stars.
Review: Well, I admit that towarss the end she just wanted to finish it off FAST. I mean you can't kill Eliseth in just one paragraph!! Miathan's death was a little better, but overall she just wanted to finish it too fast, I think. But the first part of the book was so good, I had to give it 5 stars. The end left a lot unfinished, which is GOOD, because that means she can continue the series hopefully, tieing up knots... also I want her to write more books in this world, like about Forral's life story or more about the catalysm..
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Summary: the wait is over, what happens next??
Review: Well, I have been waiting for this book for a while but when I got it, I wasn't dissapointed. Like her previous books, Dhiammara graced readers with a short synopsis of the books prior to jog your memory. This helped tremendously, though the set so far had been grand. Granted, there are many things in Dhiammara that caught me by surprise, but everyone needs a plot twist. After Sword of Flame, you are left wondering what is going to happen with the Phaerie, the Magefolk, Death, the Nightrunners, and the colony in the Southlands. What I didn't expect was to have 10 years pass by with just a smidgeon of information of what had been happening. In a way it was good, allowing the reader to view the world later through the eyes of Aurian, but it left me with a sense of loss not knowing how characters developed, how Nexis and the Phaerie fared, and what happened in the Southlands. All in all, without giving away too much of the ending, it was very detailed, thorough, somewhat depressing, but edge-of-seat keep-your-eyes-peeled surprise. Definately a superb ending to an equally superb series.
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Summary: A Fair Ending to a Series I Will Miss....
Review: Without giving away too much info (as happened when I read other people's reviews from this site before I bought this book...) I just want to say that the last book in the Aurian series is an obvious Must-Read, if you are a true fan of Aurian and her comrades. It is fast-paced, which is true to Maggie's style, however she seems to have outdid herself. So many plots are going on in the beginning that she spends over half the book explaining them, then seems to have run out of time with the contractors and had to finish up everything within about 20 pages or less. It's a little frustrating. And she kills off about half of the main characters, even some new ones you're sure to like- that is until she kills them. All in all, she must have had a contract set for only four books, because she could have gotten two out of Dhiammara. I just hope that someday she'll be able to bring us back to the land where Aurian and her kind live- maybe with a new series involving a grown Wolf, his Uncle, and the new cats.
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