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Summary: Fantastic Reality.
Review: There is nothing worse than fantasy gone wrong. This is not one of those cases. The author managed the seamlessly combine the best of the fantastic while keeping the character firmly based in reality. A strong female role that captures the uncertainty and heart break that we all have expierenced at one time or another. A fast and most excellent read. I am hoping the author is considering a follow up to this success.
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Summary: Should Be Good
Review: This book should be good, in theory I liked the premise for the story. But once I started to read it I found that the characters lacked depth and I just wanted to skip past everything to find out the end so I could be done with the book. The Bird was shallow and uninteresting.
Ultimately the book was full of possibility but didn't even begin to live up to it.
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Summary: excellent !!
Review: This book totally surprised me !! i didnt expect it to be this great! its a excellent story -well written with characters you care about -it has hints of many possible stories too come -and i cant wait for the sequel or anything this author writes!!
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Summary: excellent !!
Review: This book totally surprised me !! i didnt expect it to be this great! its a excellent story -well written with characters you care about -it has hints of many possible stories too come -and i cant wait for the sequel or anything this author writes!!
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Summary: A World & People with Complex Depth & Balance
Review: Unlike other fantasy novels I have struggled through in the past, with omnipotently dynamic main characters that exist outside of the world they live in, Di Francis has created a place where the soul, magic and nature work together. What brings Kodu Riik together as a community is this mythology that thrives in every single person in the town of Kallas. I like the way that purpose and meaning was woven into the daily ritual of guards, innkeepers and even the homeless squatting outside the town walls. By establishing a vibrant community like this from the beginning, Di Francis instilled a unique vitality to the main character, Reisil, the newest "ahalad-kaaslane"; guardians with animal companions chosen by "The Blessed Lady" to protect "her people". Reisil had many personal struggles that tugged at her new responsibility and I liked that. Even those with mystical powers can feel all-too-human insecurities at their heels sometimes. Reisil's struggle honored the complexity of being human; that there are times that you must listen to your inner truth instead of following the "official" wisdom sanctioned by elders who over time may have been blinded by their egoes. I could go on and on but I'll get to the point - obviously, I LOVED THIS BOOK and look forward to picking up PATH OF HONOR when it hits the shelves!!!
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