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Summary: Great book - well worth the money.
Review: All of this book takes place over one night, with suspense that will keep you turning pages as fast as you can. It has characters that seem very real and easy to identify with. This is the first of the trilogy, and hopefully the other two books will follow the trend. Indulge yourself, buy it!
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Summary: A real page turner
Review: An excellent story. It kept me mesmerised from the first chapter. I found it well written and compelling reading. Johnson has accomplished what too few writers today can accomplish; through his words he has created an atmosphere that envelopes your mind as you read - dark, ancient and menacing.I am looking forward to reading the next two books in the trilogy.
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Summary: Fairly rambling
Review: First of all, I got more than I little sick of everyone in the book just "happening" to be able to tell the future. Why yes, I can tell the future. You're blind? You can tell the future too! I dabble in a little future telling myself! Really obnoxious. Secondly, this mask is supposed to give Urthred his powers until his own come back, then why can't he use the mask at all until Thrull? We know his powers are temp. gone, that's what the mask is for! He does get points for making us almost sympathize with the bad guys.
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Summary: Sweet Book
Review: I first got this book when going on vaction, that night I didn't sleep because the story scared the ... out of me. But then the next day I picked it up again and read for 4 chapters and it was awesome. Oliver Johnson made this book unique, no other book I have read has used flashback and foreshadowing to tell the characters history like this one. I would recomend this book to anyone that loved fantasy.
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Summary: Enjoyable, can not wait untill book two is released
Review: I loved the story line and the potential for the following books. I just trust that we will not have to wait too long untill the next book is released.
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Summary: A really good book
Review: I loved the way the author used flashbacks to fill in the reader on the history of the characters. The characters were really brought to life with that and made the not-so-extordinary plot more interesting then you would think it would be
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Summary: This book was awesome!
Review: I really enjoyed this book. It had action, adventure, and romance. It is almost as good as "The Belgaraid" series.
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Summary: This isn't very good...
Review: I was quite disappointed with this novel. The characters are interesting enough but their dialogue and interactions with each other seem very stiff. The antagonists are not interesting. They are very poorly written vampires. I would not recommend this novel to any of my friends. Go read something like 'Gardens of the Moon' instead.
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Summary: A Waste of Trees
Review: I'm a little shocked at the other reviews I'm reading here. This may be the single WORST fantasy book I've ever read, and I've read some lulus. The characters are woefully shallow and unimaginative. The plot is predictable and unbelievable (yes, yes, I know... but I mean even for fantasy). The writing style has all of the polish and elegance of a blow to the head. As far as 'dark fantasy' is concerned, this story seems to attempt a dark atmosphere simply by portraying shocking scenes, and it overdoes it on this front. One becomes accoustomed to it halfway through, and there's nothing else to hold the book up. If you want good dark fantasy, try Glenn Cook's Black Company series. I'm filing this one under 'Trash'.
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Summary: A Waste of Trees
Review: I'm a little shocked at the other reviews I'm reading here. This may be the single WORST fantasy book I've ever read, and I've read some lulus. The characters are woefully shallow and unimaginative. The plot is predictable and unbelievable (yes, yes, I know... but I mean even for fantasy). The writing style has all of the polish and elegance of a blow to the head. As far as 'dark fantasy' is concerned, this story seems to attempt a dark atmosphere simply by portraying shocking scenes, and it overdoes it on this front. One becomes accoustomed to it halfway through, and there's nothing else to hold the book up. If you want good dark fantasy, try Glenn Cook's Black Company series. I'm filing this one under 'Trash'.
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