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Summary: Best Casca Book Ever!!!
Review: I highly recommend Casca: The Defiant. Casca and non Casca fans alike will absolutely enjoy reading it.This new Casca book was great. Dengelegi's writing captivated and held my interest from cover to cover. He did a terrific job on research and some of the plot twists were very clever.
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Summary: Be Warned - only the names are similar.
Review: If you liked Barry Sadler's Casca books, it is difficult to imagine how you could like this one. Every time Casca would have done X, the imposter in this book did Y. It was like being given something that looks like an apple, but when bitten tastes like burnt liver.
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Summary: Better but still not Sadler
Review: Paul Denegelegi's second Casca book is markedly better than the first but still contains a little too much over descriptive passages, making the book a little heavy at times. This story has Casca meeting a young Marco Polo in Venice and then accompanying him to China and the court of Kubilai Khan and he enjoys many adventures there.
Dengelegi writes well when battles are decribed but all too often there seems to be a little wandering from the main plot which detracts from the storyline. Sadler wrote in an all-action mode and this is what Casca fans really want, not a ponderous storyline which is why Denegelegi attracts a lot of criticism.
One thing I particularly disliked was the final part where the writer attempted to connect this book's storyline with the beginning of his first book and in the process contradicted Sadler's storyline for the character. Careless and with a little more care this would have been avoided.
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Summary: Return of the Old Casca
Review: Paul Dengelegi's second outing of Casca brings us the old Casca back with a vengeance. This story - ignore the dreadful book cover designed by publishers Berkeley! - involves Casca meeting a Venetian called Marco and together they set out via the Holy Land en route to the court of the Mongol khan Khubilai. Casca acts and fights more like his old self which will be a welcome sight for many traditional Casca fans, but Dengelegi's personal style remains and this story bridges both styles without ruining the character. The journey east across the deserts of Persia and the Himalayas is well written and there are frequent references to Casca's previous stint with the Mongols for interest. This should ensure a good future for the Casca stories and I hope for more in this style.
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Summary: #24 the defiant
Review: read it non-stop. first chapter grabbed me and the last chapter twisted me. everything in between was a great story. Paul D. did an excelent job of filling shoes that are hard to fill. he also brought out things that were not in the previous 23 books--the pre-Roman legion days of Casca.
thank you Mr.Dengelegi...i want more. the publisher needs to read the book and tell the artist about about the character and plot before letting him loose with the paint. that is the only thing that got to me a little.
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Summary: Nice Try
Review: The main problem is that he forgets about Casca. His history seems probable, but I buy these books for excitement and escape, not lessons. His battles are about as interesting as watching ice freeze and I really wanted this to work. I have re-read every BS Casca book several times and wanted something new. If PD writes a new book, I will give him one more try, but if he doesn't improve - no more.
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Summary: CASCA MEETS MARCO POLO?
Review: This 2nd novel of the return of Casca was a better effort than the 1st. I have been reading the Casca novels since it first came out in the early 80's and still own the first 14 novels, after that they fell towards bad writing oblivion for me. Barry Sadler's death was very sad and so was the Casca series for me. I am very glad to see a new writer come in and try to take the reins for the new series, but for some reason I find myself skimming thru lots of paragraphs to the end. I don't want to bash a good writer, but Paul D. seems to bring to life a Casca of old very well. His feelings and his mannerisms are all there like Barry Sadler used to write, but the action scenes to me are not written very well and are bogged down with flat battle sequences. For example, when Casca finally confronted the bad guy who killed his beloved, the build-up of the fight was finished much too quickly and easily. Barry Sadler's fight scenes and his revenge scenes were shocking and well written in an action-type way that left the reader satisfied. Paul is a gifted writer when it comes to the feel of the past and with customs of the peoples in history, but it is too bogged down with nothing really happening. Barry Sadler's books for the most part were less than 200 pages and the fat was trimmed off. I dont see how these other people can give this new Casca book 4 to 5 stars after they have read Barry's books, but to each his own I say. Keep trying Paul, I know these are big shoes to fill but I know you can do it better next time, Casca is too great of a character not to give another try for old time sakes!
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Summary: Not Even Close
Review: Too bad Barry Sadler is dead.. I don't think he would approve of the way Casca is rewritten....
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Summary: casca junkie
Review: worst casca book ever written. casca is mainly a side bar in the book was so bored did not even finish book . as a fan who is hungry for the next casca book i would starve before buying one written by dengelegi. please get a new author.
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