The Chaos Crystal / Jennifer Fallon

The Chaos Crystal

(category: fantasy)
book 4 of The Tide Lords by

Jennifer Fallon

published by HarperVoyager in 2008, read in October 2009

Agamedes' rating: 6 out of 10

Agamedes' opinion:

Even though the immortal magic users are the "villains", they are the main characters of this story. This may be because -- by book four of the series -- all the mortal heroes are dead... or, become immortal themselves. The immortals are, in general, not nice. They lie, cheat, kill and control. Yet they are sympathetic characters. Their murderous foibles are understandable, or at least explained in terms of a very-long-life perspective. I suspect, though, that if I read books one, two or three, I would wonder what had happened to the concept of the happy ending! As I read book four, however, I could see that some grand conclusion was going to be reached... and it was... though not quite as I expected (or hoped). And the last few chapters built an expectation that there could be even more books -- with the same key characters but in a totally different world. An enjoyable book -- I look forward to volumes five and six and so on...

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Wolfblade / Jennifer Fallon

Wolfblade

(category: fantasy)
book 1 of Wolfblade by

Jennifer Fallon

published by Tor / Tom Doherty, New York in 2004, read in September 2009

Agamedes' rating: 7 out of 10

Agamedes' opinion:

I was halfway through the book and thinking, this is fun but a bit lightweight. The heroes had avoided every trap, the baddies had been foiled at every turn. And then the good guys started to drop dead... Well, mostly, they were being killed. And the book turned a little more serious. Never too serious, though -- it’s good, escapist fantasy with the high probability of a happy ending. And even this -- book one of a trilogy -- ended happily, at least for the central character! Yet another good fantasy from an Australian author.

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