Sword of Honor (Boundary's Fall, Book 2)

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Summary: Sword Of Honor, The best book Ever
Review: Sword of Honor by Bret Funk is the second book in his series of Boundary's Fall. I found that Mr. Funk continues to keep you involved in the lives of his characters. His characters draw you into the story and keep you there. You find yourself becoming a part of their lives, offering advice, cheering, crying and complaining. His powers of description place you in the scene. It is an excellent read. I strongly recommend it to anyone who loves fantasy and even those who have never read fantasy before. Can't wait for his next book.

Roxanne Reiken
New Jersey

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Summary: Sword of Honor Review
Review: Sword of Honor by Bret Funk is the second book in his series of Boundary's Fall. I found that Mr. Funk continues to keep you involved in the lives of his characters. His characters draw you into the story and keep you there. You find yourself becoming a part of their lives, offering advice, cheering, crying and complaining. His powers of description place you in the scene. It is an excellent read. I strongly recommend it to anyone who loves fantasy and even those who have never read fantasy before. Can't wait for his next book.

Roxanne Reiken
New Jersey

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Summary: Sword Of Honor, The best book Ever
Review: Sword Of Honor is an amazing book, for anybody older than 10 yrs old. When I read it I was expecting it to be very good after reading the first book Path of Glory, but it turned out to be the most amazing book I've ever read. I can't wait till the next book comes out. Bret Funk makes you really be able to know the main characters Jeran, Dahr, and Martyn. The book is mainly about the 3 races Garun'ah, the elves, and the humans joining together to fight the ultimate evil, the Darklord Lorthas and his partners Salos and Tylor Durange. In this book Jeran starts to become a mage and the human group led by Lord Iban and Prince Martyn journies to the city Lynnaei. The book is very well written and easy to understand for people my age. It's the best Fantasy book ever written by anybody. After thinking the Lord of the Rings series was good, this is a true piece of art. If your bored with your book or you just hate reading in general this probably the best book out you can get and I will assure you reading this will be lots of fun for you.

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Summary: Part II of Boundary's Fall Does Not Disappoint
Review: Sword of Honor, Part II of the series Boundary's Fall, is as compelling as its prequel, Path of Glory. Characters met in the first book in the series become more mature and more complex; they continue to live in the reader's imagination long after the book itself is finished. As if they were actual friends, the characters pleased me with their continued growth, but frightened me as the Darklord Lothar exploited their frailties. Like the main characters, Jeran and Dahr, I found myself "listening" to the Darklord and feeling sympathy for him. Bret Funk is a talented and imaginative author who draws the reader into the lives and lands of Madryn, even into feeling empathy for the evil Lothar himself. Funk's ability to show the protagonists' flaws as well as the antagonist's strengths distinguishes this book. It remains an epic adventure filled with the legends, myths, lands, and beings of Madryn, but it is much more than an adventure. It is a thought provoking look at a fascinating land populated with beings who are, in many ways, a reflection of ourselves. As in Path of Glory, Funk creates worlds of surpassing beauty, all the while advancing the plotline as the forces of good and evil move closer to all-out conflict.

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Summary: Fans will enjoy this deep fantasy.
Review: The orphan Jeran and the former slave Dahr thought their mission would end once they warned King Mathis that the "boundary" that entrapped the Darklord Lorthas is weakening (see PATH OF GLORY). The concerned monarch understands how difficult it was to incarcerate Lorthas when the four races united a millennium ago; he fears defeat since there is much more disharmony between the people now. He assigns the messengers and his son Martyn to rally allies among the other races and warn them that Lorthas is coming.

Jeran and Martyn meet with the elves, who detest commingling with other species, to persuade them to join in a new alliance; Dahr goes to rally his race the Garun'ah against a not so common foe. As Lorthas mentally crosses the Boundary to devastate the teen messengers when they dream, others plot to use his return to overthrow the King. The elves are divided as some feel Lorthas was right and they should stay out or join his side of the dispute. The Garun'ah have doubts about renewing the ancient alliance.

Book two of the Boundaries Fall saga is a terrific coming of age epic fantasy in which Bret Funk makes his five races worshiping different Gods seems genuine as if the Middle East relocated to Madryn. The complex story line contains two prime subplots, the split adventures of Jeran/Martyn and Dahr on their separate treks though other themes are also explored. The cast enables the audience to comprehend how each race sees the world so differently. Though it would be better to have read the previous book first as references to events in BOUNDARY'S FALL would prove meaningless, fans will enjoy this deep fantasy.

Harriet Klausner



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Summary: Same, old, same old.
Review: This book is definitely not a bad book. On the other hand, it is not a great book either. While this book is written well, there's just a few plot things that make you rather irritated. The book's a little predictable at times and really, just another, "Oh, this again? Hm.. that's nice."

The characters also tend to border on a Mary Sue/Gary Stu. Some of them are just 'perfect' and never seem to have a bad moment come to them. Sure Jeran Odara has troubnle with his magic but in the end, it's the fact that all odds seem to fall in his favor.

Maybe these are just really minor things that can be ironed out as Funk starts to gain experience, but for now, the flaws are still there.

Overall, a worthwhile read. However, worth a rereading? Probably not...