Planeshift: Invasion Cycle, Book II: Amazon.ca: J. Robert King: Books

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Ties into the latest Magic: The Gathering trading card game release.

In Planeshift, the deadly Phyrexian invasion of Dominaria is just beginning. Costly battles rage in familiar Magic(r) locales such as Keld, Yavimaya, and Urborg, as Urza Planeswalker, a familiar character in the Magic universe, leads a band of powerful spellcasters against the Phyrexians' home world. Meanwhile, an artificial plane, Rath, is slowly superimposing itself on top of Dominaria. Can the heroes stop the relentless tide of invaders this time?

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4.0 out of 5 stars Non stop action...yes, it's a book., Feb 16 2004

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Mitch "The Yellow Dart" (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Planeshift: Invasion Cycle, Book II (Mass Market Paperback)

Planeshift is one of those rare books that has extreme action that never quits. It seriously felt like watching a movie. The violence is descriptive, and very captivating, but, for me, that's not quite enough to completely quench my thirst. First of all, there is little character development in this book: it's all fighting. However, the most interesting characters in the book are the dragons, specifically the Primevals. The five mighty gods rampage about Dominaria, showing their very distinctive natures. We see how the dragons change as the story progresses, until the final, breathtaking outcome. However, back on the human/metathran etc side, we have less interesting characters, but more battles. Consider this: billions, yes, BILLIONS of Phyrexians march towards our helpless heros, and at the last minute, they are seperated by Urza to complete seperate tasks. Basically, aside from the gory fights, the humanoid sections are fairly boring. Finally, we get to the Planeswalkers. Here is where the overall story really matters, and where the twists really occur. With the 'Walkers ongoing struggle to fight Phyrexia, the temptation of such power begins to corrupt the 'Walkers to the point of turning on one another. The one complaint I could have with the fighting portions is the whole 'We can kill anything' sceme. Sure, our heros are battle trained, but the Phyrexians are brutal killing machines, bred for that purpose. Most of them have blades and weapons integrated right onto them! I think there certainly could have been more outright casualties. Anyways, I recommend this book as a good read to anyone who loves Magic, any fantasy fan, or just anyone looking for a (literally) bloody good time.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Non stopped action!, Aug 27 2003

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K. Schade "krizzby" (Highland Lakes, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Planeshift: Invasion Cycle, Book II (Mass Market Paperback)

This is a great novel by J. Robert King which i think is truely awsome. The story line is good, but you sort of need to read Invasion first, and perhaps Thran prior to that. It is nonstopped action that takes you from on board the Weatherlight to inside Urza's titan engine, to fighting with the dragons. I highly recommend it, and the other books in the saga, as well as all books by J.R. king

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great but not perfect., July 14 2002

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"sadamski_maximus" (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

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As the story progresses, it is not all that important that one has to read the previous books in this theme, however in order to understand what is going on one needs to read the previous books as well. This entire set (called cycle) takes up about 930 pages total, unfortunately having read them all, this story could have been compressed to half of that. Which is the only flaw of these books; they are repetitive, especially when it comes to combat (after all, there are only so many ways to kill an opponent). Asides from that, its worth buying.

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5.0 out of 5 stars there great
A great book as well as the first and the third quick paced and action packed. you should read them all

Published on Sep 9 2001 by Rob Weiner

5.0 out of 5 stars Continuation of a good thing
This series just continues to get better. This book is action packed from beginning to end. J. Robert King has done an excellent job weaving together the storylines from the... Read more

Published on Aug 13 2001 by GeraldPCarter