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Summary: Absolutely wonderful!
Review: Even though I've never owned a copy of my own of this trilogy, I love it. It's just wonderfully done and I hope to find a copy of my own to buy soon so I don't have to run to the library every time I want to read it! It's definitely worth the search: the characters are believable the setting is well plot out.The plot: BJ Vaughn's mother kills herself after finding out she is suffering from a genetic condition called Huntington's Chorea. BJ almost leaves the Veterinarian program she is close to graduating from but is asked to join a covert program of study that promises to be unusual and wonderful. The other two books that follow are just as wonderful so get those too while your at it.
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Summary: Absolutely wonderful!
Review: Even though I've never owned a copy of my own of this trilogy, I love it. It's just wonderfully done and I hope to find a copy of my own to buy soon so I don't have to run to the library every time I want to read it! It's definitely worth the search: the characters are believable the setting is well plot out. The plot: BJ Vaughn's mother kills herself after finding out she is suffering from a genetic condition called Huntington's Chorea. BJ almost leaves the Veterinarian program she is close to graduating from but is asked to join a covert program of study that promises to be unusual and wonderful. The other two books that follow are just as wonderful so get those too while your at it.
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Summary: Veterinary Fiction is hard to come by.
Review: I agree with the other reviews - six years after receiving a copy of 'The Magic And The Healing' it is still one of my favorite books. Of course I'm biased, being a vet student - I like to see my profession put in such a good (and pretty darn accurate) light!
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Summary: Veterinary Fiction is hard to come by.
Review: I agree with the other reviews - six years after receiving a copy of 'The Magic And The Healing' it is still one of my favorite books. Of course I'm biased, being a vet student - I like to see my profession put in such a good (and pretty darn accurate) light!
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Summary: Magical, wonderful book!
Review: I first read this book as pre-veterinary student and have read it again and again, finding it more and more enjoyable as I advance in my veterinary education. I was and am delighted that the veterinary profession is featured in a work of fantasy fiction in such a realistic and positive fashion. I enjoy the 'scientific' approach of the students to the the various magical species they encounter, some very real ethical challanges (I am thinking specifically of the difficult labors of the mare, and later the centaur). I strongly recommend this book first to pre-vet student, vet students, and veterinarians, then to any reader of fine fantasy. This is truly a great read!
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Summary: Not just your ordinary fantasy novel.
Review: In his fantasy novel, "The Magic and the Healing," Nick O'Donohoe not only explores the physiology of the many creatures of the fantasy realm of Crossroads, but he also explores the human nature. Using realistic characters, both human and non-human, he makes us believe in Crossroads. There is yet hope for humans as people
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Summary: Disgusting, yet strangely attractive
Review: Nick O'Donohoe has a unique talent, for after reading this book I said to myself that I will never open it... Only to keep returning to it again and again. The fairy tale it is, a beautiful fairy tale of satyrs and unicorns, werewolves and griffins, but a fairy tale told with many details, so realistic, so truthful. People often forget how bloody fairy tales usually get, though... On the whole, it is much better than the second book of the very same series, "Under The Healing Sign", which made me wish to commite suicide immediately upon reading the last chapter of it.
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Summary: A favorite fantasy
Review: Not only does this book truly examine the lives of the animals presented (rather than leaving it at "griffins are vicious animals"), making them rounded, interesting species, it also examines the life of one very important veterinary student, and vet work in general. You truly feel for the characters, and I think that's part of the main draw. You want to come back again and again... you want to meet them, and you grow attached. It's very accurate information wise... and it also draws attention to a very real human disease. I first read this entire series, then insisted my mom read it, and she fell in love with it. Unfortunately... it doesn't end with the last (?) book.
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Summary: A favorite fantasy
Review: Not only does this book truly examine the lives of the animals presented (rather than leaving it at "griffins are vicious animals"), making them rounded, interesting species, it also examines the life of one very important veterinary student, and vet work in general. You truly feel for the characters, and I think that's part of the main draw. You want to come back again and again... you want to meet them, and you grow attached. It's very accurate information wise... and it also draws attention to a very real human disease. I first read this entire series, then insisted my mom read it, and she fell in love with it. Unfortunately... it doesn't end with the last (?) book.
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Summary: Very good and original fantasy
Review: O'Donohoe again shows that not all of TSR's current or former writers are hacks. Having enjoyed his Dragonlance stories for their humor content, I looked forward to this book. It surprised me for numerous reasons - its true originality, its realistic take on university life, medicine and life in general, its interesting (if somewhat one-dimensional) characters and its habit of pulling off a surprise on its readers occasionally. If you can track down a copy of this fine work, do so.
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