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Summary: GREAT BOOK
Review: I'm a Tamora Pierce freak, and I've read every single one of her books. But I have to say, this book is one of her best!! The little darkings are so cool (even though they're made of blood) and Daine and Numiar make a great couple. I think that this book was a great conclusion to the quartet, but it leaves you with one question...do Daine and Numiar get married?
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Summary: This book rocks!
Review: i luved this book! it was so marvelously wonderful . . . i want there to be more books on Daine and Alanna! those two really kick butt and show males who's boss. ya,i hope there will be more books about Daine and Alanna, and i was sorta disappointed to find out that they'r not in the circle of magic series, but i hope we will find out wut happens to daine and numair after this book, i can't judge the circle of magic series till i've read it though . . so yea, go read this book, but i recomment u read the others first.
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Summary: Simple book, Don't read at school
Review: Not as filled with action or adventure, but a pretty welll written ending to Daine's story and life. I fully enjoyed her conversations with the famous Alanna and king richard much. But I would not recommend this as a book to read in school, it is too simple and not one a teacher would prefer you to read. This is not a thoroughly challenging novel, no interesting sub-plot and all, but this book is truely one for your free time, not for academics.
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Summary: Good, but not at the top
Review: I read Wild magic and loved it! I read Wolf speaker and Emperor mage and they were great! Then I read Realms of the gods. It was ok, but the ending didn't really tell what ended up happening and Daine's father was a bit disapointing. But otherwise, it's fine.
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Summary: What a GREAT book you've got to get this one!!!!
Review: I absolutly LOVED this book ! I loved how Numar and Daine came together!! The realm where her mom and dad lives is really cool! I've re-read it like five times! If ever there was a book to buy this one is it!!WOW!
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Summary: Was GGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRREAT!!!!!!
Review: Okay here's how the story goes: The public library has the first three-so I read them. Then I realized, HEY WHERE'S THE REST at the end of Emperor Mage. Then I found out there was a fourth book. I immediatly told the public and school librarians to ORDER IT. So then I drove myself nuts for 2 1/2 months waiting. And finally got to read it. YAY!! Daine and Numair hit it off FINALLY and Daine gets to meet her dad! Very good book. I wish that Ms. Applegate would write a book combining her two series about Daine and Alanna, that would be good.
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Summary: Dreams come true !!!!!
Review: I have always dreamed of a world full of magic and mistic creatures and Tamora Pierce has made my dream come true, ill never be able to re-pay her for what she has done, she opened our eyes into a world full of dreams and enchantments. Congrayulations....and do keep on !!!!!
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Summary: A terrific book, but the middle lags . . .
Review: Don't get me wrong, I loved this book, and I absolutely devoured the parts about Daine and Numair. The beginning was good, and the ending was more than I could have hoped for, but it's most of the middle that stops me from giving the book 5 stars. I mean, after all that hype about the mystery of Daine's father, meeting Weiryn was sort of a let-down. After all these years Daine finds out her father is a god and she discovers this while actually being in the Divine Realms, but nothing really happens with it. Weiryn is sort of an anti-climax. And Uusosae was a really cool idea, but otherwise the Divine Realms (except for the glimpses of Numair's true feelings) are sort of unfocused, and you think, "what's the point?" I kind of thought Daine's dreams, sent by the gods, were boring and took away from the action. But still. All of that is overruled by the fabulous ending . . . it's very, very, worth it.
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Summary: Two words: READ IT.
Review: WOW!!! What a book!!! Wow, I could gush about it all day--I have always loved Daine, and have really devoured the other three books about her, but this book left me in awe. Truly. There is just one thing--and it appears to be a hot topic of debate--I was just sort of in shock about Daine and Numair. I don't know. It's too much to take in, because I've always had Numair to count on as being comfortingly like a father figure, without actually being too fatherly. I KNEW he and Daine loved each other, but I always thought it was the dependable love between deepest friends. Or family, almost; you could not question that they belonged together. Hmmm. I guess there are some things I can see in retrospect that would hint at this happening . . . I think the only thing that bothers me is that unlike Alanna's romances, this relationship started out as being somewhat fatherly. HOWEVER: that in no way stopped me from adoring this book. I will say that that scene with them together had my heart pounding and my eyes skipping down the page faster than they should have, and made me at the first hint of what was about to happen get up and go running into my room and toss myself flat on my stomach across my bed, in an effort to stop the butterflies in my stomach and concentrate on the exciting prospect of those two at last. I mean, Ms. Pierce really pulled it off flawlessly. And I REALLY liked the ending, the ultimate test of Daine's wild magic, and how SHE was the one to fight the battle of all battles, instead of getting rescued by someone like the usual female. And there was that monumental last sentence. Did anybody else like that? How it all began and ended with the Stormwings, and how at last you can really see that Daine really is the speaker for all living things, humans, immortals, and the People. [And how about that glimpse of Faithful? ;)] WOW. This book really leaves you with something to think about. AND, Tamora Pierce has started on a brand-new Tortallan quartet, so *hopefully!* we will get to find out what happens with Daine and Numair! One more thing: if you love Tamora Pierce too or if you want to argue about the Daine-Numair thing, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE e-mail me so we can talk. I'm begging you.
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Summary: Great, but where's the rest?!?
Review: I loved this book. It has grown to be a favorite, but it made me want more. Ms. Pierce should definetely go back and answer all of the questions she left us with. While reading it I'd only allow myself a few pages or a chapter a day so it would last longer. Even though I loved the book I wish there was more.
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