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Summary: Concentrated action
Review: Imagine my amazement to find an entire fantasy novel taking place in the space of a single night! Johnson manages to cram the general amount of action in an "epic" fantasy taking place over months or years into a single night worth of narrative. The result? Concentrated action and a don't-you-dare-put-me-down book. The characters are engaging and suitably dark - Lord save me from perfect heroes - and really give the story that added depth. I loved it.
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Summary: Well written, not captivating
Review: The book starts out at a good pace and tells it's story, it introduces it's characters and gives the reader their dreams and what they hope to accomplish. The book is fantasy so the reader will experience magic weapons, wizard, monsters etc... Well while this stuff can be cool, Oliver Johnson goes into way to much detail, I found myself loosing my concentration while he explained what a building looked like, three pages later I realized nothing I read processed so I had to go back and read, problem with this book is that it doesn't end. So you have to get all three books to find out what happens, I presume there is only three. I barely got through the second book, really boring buts that's another review. I do not recommend anyone to get this series, the story just isn't captivating and didn't care about the charters or what happened to them.
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Summary: This book is one of the top ten books I've ever read
Review: The book was at a climax all the time. I couldn't put it down. It was so good I finished it in 4 days.
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Summary: This book is one of the top ten books I've ever read
Review: The book was at a climax all the time. I couldn't put it down. It was so good I finished it in 4 days.
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Summary: An interesting fantasy yarn, but nothing amazing
Review: The Forging of the Shadows is a reasonable read, with some occasional flashes of brilliance, interesting character snaps and diverting plot twists. But the narrative is a little dry and the overall plot is not unique. Fun to read if you like vampires and are not too picky about the storytelling - otherwise skip it.
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Summary: Fresh Approach
Review: The Lightbringer trilogy brings in a fresh look at fantasy, concentrating mainly in a city for this book (but promising more in the remaining books). It has all the necessary elements, such as an intriguing history and cast of characters to make this trilogy one to remember. Recommended
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Summary: Much darker than you'd expect.
Review: This book is not your typical "it's up to these 3 misfits to save the world" book, even though that's what it claims to be. Nobody ever smiles or has a happy thought in the whole 500+ pages and nothing good happens to anyone, except living a few more hours in a miserable place or deciding not to kill yourself - this time. There is an excessive use of flashbacks, and nothing good happens in them either. About the only positive thing you can say about this book is that it's different.
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Summary: WoW!
Review: This book really pulled me into the story and kept me up until late. I highly recommend this book, and the other two in the series, to any fantasy genre reader.
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Summary: Slow to start, unfulfilling to end
Review: This book takes a LONG time to figure out where it's going. The idea of having everything come to pass within the course of one night is innovative, but somewhere in all the flashbacks, the backstory... Things get lost. There were parts I simply put the book down for weeks at a time, because it simply didn't seem worth it. Towards the end, it manages to redeem itself, with a climax that totally makes it worth all the embarassingly long stretches of nothing happening.. ...Which then tapers off into less than nothing. Perhaps one needs to read the complete trilogy to fully appreciate things... But I certainly know I was left feeling like I'd wasted a lot of my time after this.
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Summary: The Forging of the Shadow is worthy of all praise everywhere
Review: This is the best book I've ever read! TRUTHFULLY I can't wait till the 2nd book comes out! This is one of the best plots I've ever had the worthy of seeing! I LOVE IT SO READ IT ALREADY!!
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