Rating: 
Summary: Great!
Review: I only gave it a 9 because I feel that BLACK SUN RISING is better. Still a wonderful book. This I have reread so many times that my book is almost falling apart. Gerald is given more personality in this book. ( even though he had plenty in book one) A must read, what else can be said.
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Summary: Action filled return to Erna
Review: I picked up this book shortly after I had read the first because I hungered for more. Granted this book isn't without its shortcomings and I felt that some scenes were a bit out of place I still enjoyed my return to this world. I don't feel that this book is as dark and brooding as the first, but it still made me think.
Rating:
Summary: Mas o menos
Review: I still can't believe how C.s. killed off one of the characters just like that: a blink of an eye. Just a bit abrupt. But otherwise, I think the book was pretty good. And the two main characters continue to do their male bonding thingy with a kid in toll. Not bad... but I prefer the first book more.
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Summary: A great continuation
Review: I thought this book wasn't as great as the first one but most of my friends liked it more. I would definitely recommend it if you have started Black Sun Rising already because you simply can't stop after one book. It was as detailed as the first and as captivating.
Rating: 
Summary: Good-- But With Shortcomings
Review: I wish I could review this book in a vacuum, but I can't help compare it to the first in the series, Black Sun Rising, because I read them one right after the other.First, don't get me wrong. The author can hold my attention, and draw me from chapter to chapter. There were episodes in the book I could not put down. Again, she has created a weird world -- this time on the eastern continent -- and has further developed her archon demon as well as her evil dictator, "The Prince." Her wasteland of death near the end is truly scarey! But . . . I was a bit disappointed comparing this book to the first in the series. The first novel was complete as a story-- with a beginning, middle, and end. This just seems a transition, albeit 650 pages of transition. It sort of ends unresolved, forcing the reader to purchase the third volume to see what happens. The plot is less complex and considerably more simple than the first novel, and -- frankly -- I believe it can't support the huge number of pages. One wishes her editor had been a bit tougher on her, and whacked about 25 percent of the manuscript. For all her strengths as a writer, she has one irritating trait, which is to describe in narrative what a character is feeling. To paraphrase, she might say that "Damien was deeply hurt by what she said. He felt pain at her words. His anger welled up . . . " Really, a good writer should DRAMATIZE emotion, and "render" the feelings of characters in good dialog-- not stop the book and start explaining to the reader what a character is supposed to be feeling. As with another reviewer, I have ordered the final book of the trilogy from Amazon, hoping it is more like the Dark Sun Rising, and with fewer of the shortcomings of When True Night Falls. Even though I will admit -- for all its flaws -- that When True Night Falls is good. Just, after the first one we have been SPOILED. It was SO good.
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Summary: Great book but not quite as good as the first and the third
Review: I'm still giving this five stars, because compared to a lot of other books, it deserves it. There are a lot of new things happening in this story, and it's gripping from the first page to the last. Some other reviewers have suggested that this is merely filler between the first and third books, but it's not true.
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Summary: Excellent series
Review: In most trilogies, the second book is the weakest of the three. This is one of the exceptions. Like the first book, it gets off to a rather slow start, but is probably an even better read once things get going. Religious themes are even more rampant here; as with Black Sun Rising, if you don't like books that make you think, look elsewhere.
There's not really a whole lot I can say. If you've read Black Sun Rising, you'll want to read this one too. If you haven't, you should. That's all there is to it.
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Summary: Skip this book unless you're a completist
Review: It's a good series, but this book's definitely the weak link--the villain's cardboard, there's a Tarrant scene that contains one of the all-time goofiest over-the-top 'thank you my pale lover, for the ecstacy you bring in death' lines I've ever read, and there's a death of a major character that's jarringly random, unfair and poorly-done. Besides all that, it's disturbing to realize that, even more than in other books, it's VERY VERY BAD LUCK to be a female character in this book. The gender wonkiness of this author is pronounced enough to be a good subject for a master's thesis, but it's at its most pronounced here.
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Summary: C.S. Friedman for President!
Review: Just as good as Black Sun Rising! Read that review :
Rating:
Summary: Great Book
Review: Like the first book of this series, this is about good vs evil with the two bound together for their own reasons. The conflict engendered by this is extremely interesting. The only reason I gave this four stars instead of five, was that I think it runs a tad long. This is the third time I've read the book, so maybe I'm just getting overly familiar with it. But, I'd say a lot of the "wandering in the wilderness" parts of it could be trimmed a bit. Other than that, great.
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