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Summary: A WONDERFUL STORY. I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN.
Review: I felt like I was along for the ride as the hero and heroine fight through an incredible series of adventures and accomplish what neither of them ever believed they were capable of.The book was recommended to me by a friend who now seems to be making it his life's work to tell everyone he meets about it. After reading Legend, I can understand his enthusiasm. If you read it, maybe you'll be telling everyone you know as well.
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Summary: A FIRST RATE END OF THE WORLD THRILLER!
Review: From the article I read, this book has been around since the mid 80s and is only now beginning to catch on. After reading the book, I can only wonder why it took so long. It's an unusually structured story. The hero and the heroine virtually never meet until the end of the book. For most of the story they are in different, though related worlds. Each is in fact living in the other's world, and each is struggling to survive. When they come together one of those worlds dies and the other is changed forever. A great read.
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Summary: An outstanding fantasy novel.
Review: "Legend" is a real page turner. Anyone who likes fantasy or science fiction will love it. "Legend" is a legend, a fantasy, set in a fantastic world, actually two fantastic worlds. It's the story of a reluctant hero, and of how he has greatness thrust upon him and rises to the challenge. He overcomes a supernatural cult as well as a politically inept government to free his city from its imprisonment. I first read this novel five or six years ago. So it's been out at least since then. Now suddenly people are talking about it. What took so long?
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Summary: A bible for the New Age and a joy to read.
Review: There are people who are claiming this book is divinely inspired. Which of course it isn't. No divinely inspired book would be this much fun to read. I heartly recommend it.
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Summary: One of the finest and most exciting books I have ever read.
Review: A book of adventure and suspense, of magic and wonderment, and of ideas. In a post apocalyptic future, the author takes us into a decimated world. A cult of twisted spirituality -- of magic and deception -- battles a dying city. And only a fraudulent messiah can resurrect the world.
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Summary: Imaginative and worth a read
Review: Okay, I agree that this is quite a good book. I am a bit surprised at the overwhelmingly 5-star reviews, though. There ARE better books out there, in my opinion. The post-fall-of-civilization world that Maher envisions is inventive and yet pretty believable. Society has become stratified and stagnant, with many of its residents on the bare edge of survival. The remnants of civilization are in tatters and barely functioning, victims of entropy with no one to maintain them. Against this backdrop, Maher's story follows two heroes-to-be, Martin and Gena. I thought that these characters, along with most others in the novel, were pretty well written. Finding themselves swept up by events not of their own making, the protagonists react just as you or I might - to a point. It is their very believability that made it difficult for me to buy into their heroic behavior as the story progressed. Martin passes certain tests that no one else can, but how? Somehow he simply manages to do so where any other person would fail. Where does this strength come from? It's written as if he virtually walked through his ordeals, and we get no explanation other than that. As for Gena, a girl who grew up alone in the most vicious and cutthroat environment possible, she somehow decides in the end to do the right thing by Martin when she has shown nothing but contempt for all the other characters in the story. Where does this noble impulse come from? These unanswered questions left me with a hint of disappointment precisely because Legend is such a well-written story. I would definitely recommend it, but can't quite give it five stars.
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