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Summary: A Short but Fun Fantasy
Review: Everyone in the kingdom of Gespeth has the ability to make things real by imagining them. For example, if they wish to remove a stain from their clothes, all they have to do is imagine the cloth stainless and it will instantly become so. Lenora, a headstrong and beautiful princess, has a stronger from of this gift than most people. Everyone in a neighboring kingdom (I can't remember the name right now)can read minds. They can enter someone's mind and speak to them, and they can extract information by reading the minds of people without this gift. Coren, a not-so-handsome and somewhat of a weakling prince who just wants a normal life, doesn't like this reading minds business. He feels it is wrong to invade someone's privacy, partly because everybody keeps on invading his. So, he decides that he will not read minds unless invited to. When the monarchs of these kingdoms plan a wedding between Coren and Lenora, things start going wrong. Not wanting to marry Coren, Lenora runs away and somehow ends up taking Coren with her. There, the two encounter what seems to be a perfect world, but they soon discover that that's not what it is. It is ruled by a man name Hevak who is controlling the minds of the people there. Together, Coren and Lenora must defeat Hevak. And this would be a lot easier if they actually got along.... This book is a short and fun fantasy book. (but you knew that from my title, didn't you?) If you are used to reading longer and more serious books, you may not like this. I normally read long books, but found this a pleasant change. It has the right amount of humor, romance, and adventure in it. I'm looking forward to reading the sequels.("More Minds", "Out of Their Minds", "A Meeting of Minds")
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Summary: Good
Review: I absolutely loved the book. Although the first couple of chapters were kind of slow, but after that i couldnt put the book down until i finished it. I liked how the characters were developed and the romance wasn't over powering like some books can be. Overall I loved the book.
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Summary: Nope nope nope.
Review: I really cant explain much of this book becuase I didnt even finish it. About halfway through i couldnt take it. I was confused and though it was very slow.
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Summary: Perhaps a little confusing, but a good children's book
Review: I really did like this book because it's just so much fun to read! It doesn't go very deeply into character analysis or the complexities of love, however, which was probably the intent of the authors since this was directed at children. The authors really did make these two worlds--one of Gepeth and Andilla with their petty preudices and hates and one of Grag, with its seemingly "perfect" society--realistic enough to appease even the most inquisitive eight-year-old. Caught up in the middle of this conflict is Lenora, who is enticed by the "perfect" society and pulls her betrothed Coren, who is inexplicably linked to her, in the conflict as well. Add the strange powers that both Coren and Lenora abuse in different ways and it makes an interesting read at the very least. The characteristics of these powers are not fully explained as it is complicated, but a bit of thinking and it will become clear.
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Summary: One Amazing Book
Review: I really liked this book a lot! It was a mixture of fantasy, humor and a bit of romance. Somthing about the book made me keep reading for hours on end until the book was finished. Princess Lenora is from Gepeth, a country where everyone can imagine something and make it real. (I guess you won't need to go to the mall anymore.) But no one except Lenora will use their powers because it might upset the Balance. (Oh dear!) Prince Coren is from Andilla where people live in their minds. They can imagine they're eating fried chicken when what they're really eating is blue mush. (Yuck!) Instead of talking, they communicate with their minds. However, Coren doesn't like the idea of people being able to read his mind, so he decides to stop imagining a soft, fluffy bed and instead sleeps on a bumpy, old, real, bed. Well, these two young royals are to be married. (Not of their own free will) During the ceremony, Lenora transports both of them to a world she sees in a basin of water. They find that in that world, they are unable to use their powers. Soon Coren and Lenora figure out what's going on and who is causing all of the problems. You have to read this book and its sequels!
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Summary: A fun kids fantasy
Review: Sixteen year old Lenora is a headstrong, brave and rather spoiled princess who lives in a world where everyone has the power to make the things they imagine real. Unfortunately for Lenora, using this power is strictly forbidden, not that it stops her much. Shy and logical Prince Coren lives in a world where everyone has the powers to read everyone else's mind, a power that he would do anything to get rid of. When Lenora and Coren discover that they're arranged to be married, none of them are too happy about it. Lenora is furious. She doesn't see why she's supposed to marry this boring boy that she's never met before. In an attempt to run away she ends up throwing herself in a completely different world. Unfortunately she accidentally brings Coren around with her. Everything seems perfect in this world to Lenora, from the people to the dashing ruler, Hevak. Coren is a bit more cautious. Everything seems to perfect. It's this caution that ends up getting him in trouble. Now Lenora's the only one who can save him. That is if she can resist the persuasive powers of Hevek. Although this book isn't all that advanced it's still an original and entertaining work of fantasy. The plot is fast paced, exciting, and easy to get addicted to. The different worlds are wonderful and very well described. The only problem I really see with it are the characters are awfully underdeveloped and flat. They don't seem to grow too much through the book. But since this is a series, that could be fixed in the next four books. I'm very interested in reading the other books in the quartet, the next one being More Minds. I would recommend this to younger readers and older readers looking for a fun escapism book.
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Summary: An Edge of Your seat +Laughing your head off Fantasy
Review: This book is not as serious as some of the great books i've read ( aka:His Dark Materials, stuff like that), but the writing is just as good. In this humorus fantasy, the bored Princess Lenora runs away from an unwanted marrige to the kind, but boring, weakling Prince Coren. When Lenora runs away, Prince Coren follows her. They get trapped in another world that Lenora has accidently created, a world thats completely controled by the evil Hevak. This book shows that people aren't always what they seem, and everybody has a gift that will help in hard times.
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Summary: Bad characters
Review: This was a good book, although it lacked a little in the character development department, which surprised me, since Carol Matas usually has such wonderful character development. Still, it was a good story line and it was interesting to see what kind of work Carol Matas could do outside of the Holocaust realm.
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