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Summary: The most disappointing of the cycle.
Review: A poor book overall which disregards events in both Mirage/Visions and the Prophecy expansion itself. Firstly, many of the questions this expansion raises - what happened to Sidar Jabari and the other Mirage leaders? Where is the Vintara forest and what is its relevance to the story? Where does Shauku come in? - were left unanswered and the unique Jamuuran flavour of Mirage is nowhere to be found - it's just a place where generic fantasy battles are taking place, with the aid of improbable constructions themselves bearing no relation to anything that went before, and with no backstory describing the emergence of the new nation from those in Mirage. The characterisation is minimal to nonexistant, with everyone being a warmonger regardless of whether they are nature mages, planeswalkers with a penchant for experimenting with time or lecturers at the Academy. Again, no reference is made to the past of any of these characters - Jolrael in particular is badly used.
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Summary: Prophecy - A letdown of the Magic community.
Review: Every title in the series of Magic: The Gathering novels has been wonderful. This book is the main exception. This book is horribly written; instead of the exciting spellcasting and creature duels of the previous books, there is political debate and horrid plot changes. Mageta, The Lion (a hero of the cards) is written to be a machine wielding coward, and a beloved character is horribly murdered. The other legendary spellshapers make cameo apperances, put in only by demand of the Magic team. The author changes characters, warps the plot, and basically ruins the ideals of this set. If you want to buy this book to learn Magic's storyline, save your money. There's no storyline here whatsoever. The only possible reason to buy this book would be to complete your set of Magic novels, and if you buy for that reason, I urge you not to read it.
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Summary: This is a magic trick gone "Poof!"
Review: Having been a big time fan of the magic: The Gathering book series I was quite excited to read Prophecy. However, to my dismay, I found myself for the first time forcing myself to finish the book. Why? By the time I reached the half way point of the book I had yet to understand any relevance to the current cycle is was involved in (Masquerade Cycle). In fact, by that point I had yet to even figure out any relevance to anything. Most of the pagers were spent setting up elaborate plots, where at the third chapter, the plot would fail and never be mentioned again. I was not until the final chapter where I found any sort of relevance to this book, but it was all spelled out for you, not imagination ... it seemed more like the book was having some sort of epiphany where all this information flooded in at once ... high unbelievable. And to add insult to injury, the end of the book wrapped up with the murder of a key character in the series ... you'd think they have some meaningful death, but it was really, really pointless and EASILY avoided... The author did not seem write about the character as they had been developed in previous books. I had to have someone pull matches out of my hand so I would not burn the copy of the book. This was a real disappointment
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Summary: Very unsatisfying
Review: I am an avid magic player, and have been reading the books behind the card game since I was seven, and frankly, this book was horrible. I've read all of the magic books, save for 3, and I must say this was hard for me to get into despite the fact that it is from my favourite series. The fact is, Vance Moore, in my opinion, did not take the time to develop the characters enough. In other magic books, the characters show emotions, and personalities, the characters in this story felt almost dead except for a few rare moments in the book. Also as mentioned before, this was the fartherst from the cards I've seen a magic book. I would only reccomend this book to someone who didn't like to mis a bit of the storyline behind the cards.
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Summary: Not a worthy book.
Review: I bought this book simply because I wanted to have all Magic books. Well it was a horrible book. Not worthy of being part of the Magic series. I recommend anyone looking for a good book to steer clear of this book.
Rating:
Summary: Horrible
Review: I can't believe they killed of Rayne.
:( This book is the worst.
Rating:
Summary: Could this book BE any worse?
Review: I don't think I could fit into 1000 words how much I disliked this book, but let me just say that I didn't like it and it was the least enjoyable of the four MTG books I have read up to now.
Rating:
Summary: Meh.
Review: I feel the story got completely sidetracked in this book. I found myself not really giving a rodent's behind about what happened to the main character - he's someone we don't know from previous books, don't know from the cards - why should we care? The "Big Bad" was introduced way too late, which is a shame because he was actually sort of interesting. And the fact that Jolrael's name was misspelled every time it appeared (as Jolreal) is just lousy editing.
Overall? Decidedly unimpressed. Though it was good to see Teferi again.
Rating:
Summary: Not Very Good
Review: I got bored of this early on. Most of the other books in the Magic series I really liked, and the other two in this cycle (Mercedian Masques & Nemesis) were much better than this. However, I think the Invasion Cycle was the best of all of them. This was an OK book, but not very good. I wouldn't suggest getting this unless you want a complete collection of the Magic books.
Rating:
Summary: Not Very Good
Review: I got bored of this early on. Most of the other books in the Magic series I really liked, and the other two in this cycle (Mercedian Masques & Nemesis) were much better than this. However, I think the Invasion Cycle was the best of all of them. This was an OK book, but not very good. I wouldn't suggest getting this unless you want a complete collection of the Magic books.
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