Forging Of The Shadows: Amazon.ca: Oliver Johnson: Books

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David Gemmell

Praise for Book 1: 'Great heroes, terrible enemies, powerful magic - and two more novels to come! Who could ask for more?'

Time Out

'An imaginative debut'

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2.0 out of 5 stars This isn't very good..., Jan 7 2004

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This review is from: Lightbringer Trilogy 01 Forging The Shadows (Paperback)

I was quite disappointed with this novel. The characters are interesting enough but their dialogue and interactions with each other seem very stiff. The antagonists are not interesting. They are very poorly written vampires. I would not recommend this novel to any of my friends. Go read something like 'Gardens of the Moon' instead.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Well written, not captivating, Mar 18 2003

By	JakFrost "thegreatui" (AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Forging of the Shadows (Paperback)

The book starts out at a good pace and tells it's story, it introduces it's characters and gives the reader their dreams and what they hope to accomplish. The book is fantasy so the reader will experience magic weapons, wizard, monsters etc... Well while this stuff can be cool, Oliver Johnson goes into way to much detail, I found myself loosing my concentration while he explained what a building looked like, three pages later I realized nothing I read processed so I had to go back and read, problem with this book is that it doesn't end. So you have to get all three books to find out what happens, I presume there is only three. I barely got through the second book, really boring buts that's another review.

I do not recommend anyone to get this series, the story just isn't captivating and didn't care about the charters or what happened to them.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet Book, Dec 13 2002

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This review is from: The Forging of the Shadows (Paperback)

I first got this book when going on vaction, that night I didn't sleep because the story scared the ... out of me. But then the next day I picked it up again and read for 4 chapters and it was awesome. Oliver Johnson made this book unique, no other book I have read has used flashback and foreshadowing to tell the characters history like this one. I would recomend this book to anyone that loved fantasy.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Another stupid vampire book
You know, my major gripe isn't with the contrived plot of this book, the unimaginative characters, or even some of the recycled themes which bog it down. One word...vampires. Read more

Published on July 21 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars A really good book
I loved the way the author used flashbacks to fill in the reader on the history of the characters. The characters were really brought to life with that and made the... Read more

Published on Oct 16 2001 by Chomp

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book - well worth the money.
All of this book takes place over one night, with suspense that will keep you turning pages as fast as you can. Read more

Published on April 28 2001