Magelord: The Time of Madness (Magelord Trilogy)

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Summary: Fantastic read!
Review: I don't read a whole lot, but this one was suggested along with the first so I read them both. I could hardly put them down. I like the characters better in this book than in the first. I can't say enough good about this one. It's just fantastic!

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Summary: Much better then the first!!!
Review: In the first book the title character was a little dry. However Ian is ten times better the Bjorn! I also enjoyed the way Thomas K. Martin portrays magic as the "Power" something which one is born with rather then learns. I would really give this 4.5 stars since the only thing I didn't like was the fact that it ended with a cliffhanger. But that only deserves a .5 loss. I recommend this book to all lovers of fantasy and magic.

Rating:
Summary: Fantastic read!
Review: This book follows up the original, but follows a completly different charcter. (Which I liked more than Bjorn or Gavin from the first book). I liked the entire book except for the fact that it ended on a cliffhanger that is to be finished up in the third book of the set. I would not suggest reading this one until T. K. Martin publishes the third book in the series. Over all this book has an original style that is only seen in the first book of the trigiloy. I wuold suggest this book to any one that liked the forst one.

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Summary: About as interesting as watching paint peel...
Review: This poorly written, extremely lame series is one of the worst I have ever read. Really, the fantasy that is being written today stinks. The Time of Madness, is basically the same as most of the other lousy fantasy novels that have been written over the past ten years; regurgitations of wonderful writings like those of Tolkien and C. H. Lewis. Unfortuantly, instead of doing what Stephen King does and blending myths and past fiction with lots of their own ideas, most modern fantasy writers today come up with bland, tasteless stories full of characters with stupid names and surrounded by uninteresting legends, most of which are inept, gasy versions of the classics.