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In a book world awash in sword-slinging fantasy novels, each trying to out-Jordan the other, the arrival of yet another big new series on the scene is... no big deal. But much to the delight of readers bored to tears by doorstopper clones, Elizabeth Haydon's three-part tale is unique, thrilling, and utterly romantic from start to finish. The story of a magical singer of extraordinary power and her battle with a blood-soaked demon began in Rhapsody: Child of Blood and continued in Prophecy: Child of Earth. The trilogy's final volume, Destiny: Child of the Sky offers fantasy fans something they crave, but don't often see--a great ending.
When last we saw our lovely heroine Rhapsody and her two best friends Achmed and Grunthor, they had just rescued the Sleeping Child from the evil tendrils of the F'dor. But as they found out through the tragic loss of their young friend Jo, the three must follow the demon's trail of violence and blood, finding the children it has spawned across the land in order to track it down and destroy it once and for all. As in the previous two books, Rhapsody's love of her friends and desire to save children in danger drive her most reckless actions.
Elizabeth Haydon delivers us from the fantasy traps of never-ending plots, wooden characters, and yawn-inducing battles. She takes much of her style from romance and suspense novels, rather than historical fiction, giving her books real depth of emotion and humanity. It's true that there are spots of sentimentality that may leave some hardened adventure fans groaning, but that very thing may help explain why Haydon's books have succeeded with crossover romance readers so admirably. We can only hope she'll set her sights on another swoony adventure as soon as possible. --Therese Littleton --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Following Rhapsody: Child of Blood (2001) and Prophecy: Child of Earth (2000), Haydon concludes her high fantasy trilogy featuring the beautiful skysinger Rhapsody, who generates magic from music, with a dark, cataclysmic book filled with almost constant action. With the evil Rakshas destroyed in volume two, Rhapsody and her two shady half-breed sidekicks, clairvoyant assassin Achmed and the jolly green giant Grunthor, undertake a quest for the blood of the Rakshas' children, which they hope will help them solve the mystery of the hidden demon F'dor, the creator of the murderous Rakshas. Wielding her fire sword, Rhapsody summons starfire and metaphysical music for her final confrontation with the demonic force intent on world destruction. Though obviously inspired by music theory, Norse and Celtic folklore, and seemingly by such authors as Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Patricia A. McKillip, Anne McCaffrey and Palmer Brown (Cheerful), the author uses a fluid writing style to build a world uniquely and compellingly her own. In this shimmering symphony of exhaustive (though not exhausting) detail, epic myths, music and magic intertwine in a resounding fugal crescendo. Haydon fans sorry to see the end of the trilogy can take heart in knowing that the Rhapsody saga's vast historical timeline contains plenty of unexplored epochs and eras ripe for future book treatment. (Sept. 1) Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in perpetuity.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Saving the Best for Last,
By Etienne Donvain "ET" (Huntington, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Destiny: Child of the Sky (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Haydon closes the trilogy of Rhapsody with a deep, well developed climax. There are numerous episodic stories within this last volume that may make eager page turners find this a little long. In fact, Haydon condenses this into an absorbing and well written tale in which we gain deeper understanding and appreciation for the characters introduced in the first two parts.While I enjoyed the first two books, I found the third book demonstrated a more mature and measured pace that kept my interest in the story while avoiding that kind of comic book feeling one sometimes finds in run of the mill fantasy. A great read.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Boring ap Pointless ap Numbing,
By "shellshaboo" (Columbus, OH United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Destiny: Child of the Sky (Mass Market Paperback)
I was so glad to see the finally book in the Raphsody trigloy that I got this copy right away. I was sadly disapointed. This book did not follow the meter of the rest of the book. The first two were soooo great (espically the first.) Becuase they were about three people and their uncanny bond to each other. But the more the story centered around Raphsody the wrose the book got. I really tried to like her in this book. But Haydon made (which most author struggle not to make.) The perfect perfect person. Raphsody was to hard to like becuase she just didn't seem human.There are also too many sterotypes. Rahphsody blond stupid good in bed sweet and great for the better of mankind all round. Achmend strong slient gritty voiced killer who's heart long ago died yet is learing how to love Gunthor big stupid perpetual jolly man with no real depth ready to lay his life down for the fair maiden without a thought. Then there's the whole plot of this story. I thought it was to hunt and track the F'dor but no one seems to be in any great hurry to kill it. Instead we are forced to read many of Raphsody's pointless and never ending acts of selflessness. Our ears are filled with history goverment till the point that you feel that you are watching c-spann or msnbc. You start to think should I be taking notes ? You spend half your time back tracking trying to remember who owned what see or dutchy or land. Lastly there's Ashe. His whole point in this story was to bemoan his fate over Raphsody. Beyond liking her he really had no point. He could never fight he was always depressed and had no personality. Just a one demotion man set up to be one of Raphsody goupies. The ending (which I won't go into detail about) Just didn't make any sense. It was like it was just written to hurry up and finish the story. This was sadly dissapointing I like Haydon and hope her next trigloy is much better.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
It was mindnumblingly horrible,
By A Customer
This review is from: Destiny: Child of the Sky (Hardcover)
I cannot understand how this book is getting such rave reviews. Just because an author can form coherent sentences and write passable descriptions does not mean that the plot of the book makes sense or bears any resemblance (even in a fantasy world) to any type of reality. By this reality, i mean the absolute perfectionism of the main character. I understand that in most fantasy stories, the hero/heroine often seems omnipotent, but Rhapsody just stretches it a little too far. I can deal with Achmed's ability to kill and assassinate at will, and I love his sarcastic and quick comments, but to have someone who is beyond beauty, has men falling sideways and upsidedown for her, and is also the most powerful sorcerer/singer/whatever without any effort is beyond my patience. Not to mention Ashe is just as pathetic. The language of the sex scenes were also overdone, not to mention extremely reminiscent of Harlequin novels. The author also fails to develop the singing aspect of Rhapsody's talents, or at least Ms Haydon fails to explain how Rhapsody seems to suddenly have gained all these new powers. And the whole Meridion/time thing is absolutely horrible. I have no clue what happened, and I definitely didn't want to read the whole book again. But after going through 800 pages, and three books, you would think it would be only fair to make it somewhat understandable. In other words, spare yourself, please...and Amazon needs to have a 0 star option.
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