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Two women. One is a princess, pampered and protected. The other lives in the forest, the leader of a band of rebels. She too has eleven blood.
This is their story--the tale of love and hate, courage and cowardliness, and magic both dark and light...
KLIATT has praised Deborah Chester's novels for being "exciting," "page-turners," and "suspenseful"
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THE DOGS WARNED Tobeszijian that something was wrong. Read the first page
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Yawn,
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This review is from: Sword Ring And Chalice Sword (Paperback)
Story summary: Some guy wanders around aimlessly as his destiny leads him to be king of a county he knows nothing about. Meanwhile many of his friends and enemies are killed by demons.I've read about 500 sci-fi / fantasy books and while this wouldn't make it into my worst 100 list, its damn close. After having read all 3 books, my impression is that they were written based on watching a couple King Arthur movies and the cartoon version of The Hobbit. The magic goes back and forth between being powerful and weak, depending on which is more convenient. The main character decides to reclaim his father's throne because its his destiny, but he couldn't care less about the country or its people because he's never been there and the only person he met from there was a real jerk! His faithful sidekick only gets mentioned when someone is needed to ask a stupid question or make a blatantly obvious observation. The main characters are very unsympathetic as they make random decisions based on reasoning like "I've never been wrong before, so while this looks like an extremely stupid thing to do it will turn out to be the right thing" Huh? (That isn't an exact quote from the book, but close enough.) The only reason I finished the whole series is that I was hoping it would be bad enough to make it into my "worst" list. But unfortunately it isn't really awful, its just predictable and extremely boring.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Fan Fiction?,
By Lex C. (Norfolk, VA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sword Ring And Chalice Sword (Paperback)
...this is some of the worst written drivel I have read in a long time.I title this review "Fan Fiction" because that is truly what it reads like- someone with a great mind for fantasy "concepts" but a complete inability to formulate any sort of prose. There is no continuity in the writing, and the author uses "powers" to help her characters when they need help, then discards those abilities when they need to be in danger again. Additionally, the improper use of similes and metaphors astounds me. What kind of editing is involved in making a book like this? Sorry to come out sounding so negative, but this is the kind of garbage that makes outsiders to the genre of fantasy laugh when they see people reading it...
2.0 out of 5 stars
I'm ashamed that I read and somewhat enjoyed this series,
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This review is from: Sword Ring And Chalice Sword (Paperback)
My reaction to this book confuses even me. Nothing in this book seems to be well done. The major characters are flat, the minor characters are completely insubstantial and all of them are too clearly either good or evil. The plot is made up of individual moments and situations that, though entertaining on the individual level, are tied together rarely by solid means. Character motivation is shallow and at some points stretched to the point of being totally illogical. The writing is deplorable, even for modern, pulp fiction standards (which is saying something) and the author made some truly terrible choices about the book's construction, in general (like the entire prologue's existance). Where is the editor? I don't have any reason to think that one ever existed. The main character getting together with a woman in the end is done suddenly with no basis behind his decision. The worst part is that the book is anything but memorable (though, come to think of it, that could be why I managed to come out of it with a relatively good impression). Overall, this book is only a good read if you're not paying attention.
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