by Mercedes Lackey
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 Didn't live up to expectations, 2007-10-14
By the end of the second book in this trilogy, the characters Karal and Tremayne had charmed me. I loved the way they both progressed through the first two books. Lackey did a wonderful job of showing how each character responded to challenges and how each grew more honorable, even though they were on opposite sides. So I very much looked forward to seeing how these two characters triumphed in book 3.
It felt like Lackey had lost interest while writing this book. Perhaps its because she populated the novel with so many characters she had extensively explored in other books and even series. Yet even the newer characters of Karal and Tremayne seemed to be mere cameos. By cameos, I don't mean that they played minor parts. Rather, they were presented as characters that had already completed their story arcs and were present only to complete the plot lines set up in previous books. Little character development occured in either of them.
I'm not one to skim past paragraphs that don't interest me. I don't want to miss important plot developments. In this book, I found myself skimming past a great deal more than paragraphs.
Lackey has a knack for giving you such rich detail that you don't notice that pages have gone by with no action or dialogue. But the pages of detail in this book was both excessive and repetitive. Much of what she described had been spelled out in book 2. Generally speaking, the final book in a series excellerates its action, because all the plot lines strung through out the preceeding books are being tied up.
Still, I cared about the Karal and Tremayne characters enough to read to the end. Instead of feeling regret that I reached the end of the series, though, I felt only relief.
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 The Mage Storms, 2007-05-07
Three books that are total adventure, not just for young adults.
The stories are rich, full of color with wonderfuly well formed characters
so well developed that you can live the story with them as if you were in their shoes.
I can only think of The Mages Storms as one book however all three are great in themselves, very enjoyable adventure.
Excellent author.
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 A Serious Letdown, 2006-03-15
I'm sorry to say I have to agree with those reviewers who didn't like this book. I'm a fan of Valdemar and especially the "Arrows" Trilogy and "By the Sword," but this book was a disappointment. I was bored by the effort of trying to keep track of (and care about) a dozen or more "main" characters, and I found much of the plot to be predictable and lacking suspense. Sadly, it's a letdown, given how much I enjoyed some of the other books in this series.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
could have been better? Damn straight., 2005-12-17
I just had to throw my two cents in when I saw this book had four stars. I got it when it first came out in hard cover, because I couldn't stand the wait. Absolute waste of money and time. The whole storm series was not very good, but this one did it. This one stopped me buying her books.
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My fave, 2005-05-26
I actually liked this book the best of the three. The only part I didn't like were the passages about what was going on in the empire. Who cares? My favorite parts of the book were actually the ones about Tremane and his ascension. I liked his character a lot and I loved how the change was made in him from the first two books.
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