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The Phoenix Transformed

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I really cannot express the disappointment I had reading this trilogy...compared to the previous trilogy there really is no comparison. Tiercel is interesting to a point, but he is whiny and kind of hard to sympathize, and Harrier is, well, also a wimp. Harrier is a Knight-Mage, but Lackey and Mallory did not really show it in this series, actually I did not really see anything of Harrier being heroic. The characters are fussy and annoying, compared to the first trilogy with Kellen, Idalia, Jermayan, Shalkan and Vestakia. The story-line is incredibly boring, most of it is of them walking everywhere, the ending was not all that great, It was, in my opinion, an unnecessary trilogy. I'm re-reading the first series so that I can get over my disappointment in this one...I think the only reason why someone should read it, is because the legends the main characters listen to and pass on, are the legends of Kellen and co. which are kind of amusing. Other than that....disappointing...just really makes me sad I wasted my money. I LOVE Lackey and Mallory, but they really could have tried a little harder in this series I think.

I've read the whole series, and, on the whole, it was boring and disappointing. The characters were entertaining, but they just didn't have the same panache as the characters in the previous series, The Obsidian Trilogy. I had a really hard time getting through the last book, just because it was so dull and anti-climactic. In any case, I gave it 3 stars for effort, since I did really like Harrier and Tiercel, however this whole series is nothing compared to Obsidian.