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Silverlock 38 reviews John Myers Myers
Ace Trade, 2005
A classic, and an astoundingly good read
+ Fun book + Not Free SF Reader + Rollicking romp through Lit
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Wizard's Hall 48 reviews Jane Yolen
Magic Carpet Books, 1999
Read this when I was in 4th grade. Great book!
+ Hmmmmmmmmm...
I read this book when I was in 4th grade in 1993 and 14 years later, I was searching for this book for my classroom because I remember how much I loved it. This book pre-dates Harry Potter by several years, and I've been trying to find this particular book because it enchanted me when I read it in ...
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Hood (King Raven Trilogy, Book 1) 65 reviews Stephen R. Lawhead
Thomas Nelson, 2006
Excellent
+ This was a beautifully wrought tale! + New and intriguing retelling of the Robin Hood legend + Epic + Excellent reimagining
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The Eight 365 reviews Katherine Neville
Ballantine Books, 1997
Great ride!
+ Breathtaking in imagination and scope + Great Adventure and Action
Travelling back and forth through time, criss-crossing the globe in a frantic quest first to hide and then to retrieve pieces of a priceless and ominous chess set, laced with historical characters as diverse as Charlemagne, Casanova and Bach, sprinkled with arcane bits of chess lore, alchemy, music ...
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The Dark Mirror: Book One of the Bridei Chronicles 23 reviews Juliet Marillier
Tor Fantasy, 2007
A Captivating Journey
+ Everything You would want. + Good read + Intriguing...cleverly weaving fantasy with history
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The Stone War 8 reviews Madeleine E. Robins
Tor Fantasy, 2000
Successful, enjoyable multi-leveled read
+ Brilliant sci fi fantasy + "The Stone War" is mavelous magic! + Startlingly Original
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Southern Fire 2 reviews Juliet E. McKenna
Tor Books, 2005
Couldn't put it down!
I'm a 35 year vetern of SciFi/Fantasy, and picked this book up not knowing the author (It was a fetured selection in a book club I belong to and was mailed to me automatically), but was unable to put it down once I started reading. Fast paced, interesting settings and charecters, and a few ...
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Smoke and Shadows (The Smoke Trilogy, Book 1) 32 reviews Tanya Huff
DAW, 2005
Promising Start to Spin-Off Series; Light & Exciting
+ Smoke and Shadows + loved it + Better than the Blood Series
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The Return of the Sword 4 reviews
Cyberwizard Productions, 2008
Return of the Sword is exactly what you want
+ For anyone who who appreciates a straight-forward adventurous tales + Return of the Sword
With this anthology you get exactly what you'd think you'd get. It's full of swords, full of blood, and full of action. To make things even better, it's got one of my stories in it. Here's my honest take on it:
Altar of the Moon- A story about the aftereffects of a sword of power and the ...
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The Far Kingdoms (Cosmos) 5 reviews Allan Cole, Chris Bunch
Cosmos Books, 2008
Kept me coming back for more.
+ An incredibly great adventure... + Great Book
Great book. I picked it up for 50 cents at a used book sale, and while I did put it down from time to time (school and all) overall it was excellent. Creative, well-written, and it has a good blend of humor that many fantasy novels seem to lack. It's a good book to just sit down and read, rather ...
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The Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 1) 326 reviews Jonathan Stroud
Miramax, 2004
Amulet of Samarkand
+ An original and compelling story with a touch of the occult (according to those who tried to ban it) + An excellent adventure. + Bartimaeus: no age restriction
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The Price of Paradise (Doctor Who) 5 reviews Colin Brake
Random House UK, 2008
Kind of a classic...
+ It Has Its Moments + you want it? + Makes you miss Billie Piper.
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The Princess and the Goblin (Puffin Classics - the Essential Collection) 43 reviews George Macdonald
Puffin, 1997
Great set
+ Happy Camper + Very Victorian + Great story! + A Few Pro's and Con's to the Puffin Classics Edition
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The Forever King (Forever King Trilogy) 57 reviews Molly Cochran, Warren Murphy
Tor Books, 1993
Instant favorite
+ A great King Arthur book + A nice surprise! + I liked it.
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The Princes Of The Golden Cage 10 reviews Nathalie Mallet
Night Shade Books, 2007
Great Fantasy/Mystery
+ In a not too distant world than our own, a variation on fable and history + Solid Story; Less than Stellar Editing
Mallet has created a medieval Arabian setting reminiscent of the tales of Scherezade in the 1001 Arabian Nights. In fact, as the story is written, it could have been one. Amir relates the events from his own perspective, and the reader almost gets a sense of him relating the story of these events ...
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The Summoner (Chronicles of the Necromancer, Book 1) 48 reviews Gail Martin
Solaris, 2007
Simple, but excellent!
There are plenty of reviews of the plot of this book, so I won't bother. What I can say in defense of this book is that it is exactly what those critical of it has said: It is simple, it is formulaic, and it is somewhat predictable. It is also FANTASTIC. There is nothing excessive, missing or ...
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Karavans #1 20 reviews Jennifer Roberson
DAW, 2007
Awesome Book!!!!
+ Karavans + Good But Slow Start...Much Like Other Roberson Books + Solid start to a very promising saga
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Scar Night (Deepgate Codex, Book 1) 23 reviews Alan Campbell
Spectra, 2007
surprisingly good ...
+ Scar Night + Solid and enjoyable venture + Great debut dark fantasy novel
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Archangel (Samaria, Book 1) 138 reviews Sharon Shinn
Ace, 1997
The first book to be written in the series-like all her novels it's pretty good
"Archangel" was the first to be written in Sharon Shinn's now famous Samaria series, in which a group of angels keep the peace on a planet that was populated by a God by using music to pray, ask for medicine and prove to the God that all are in harmony. This book shows the change of power from one ...
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Doctor Who: The Nightmare Of Black Island (Doctor Who) 3 reviews Mike Tucker
Random House UK, 2007
Dr Fixit Does It Again
+ A Fun Diversion Worth Your Time + My first - and still my favorite!
The Dr. Who books, devoted to the last three years, are formulistic and basicially themed alike. Ordinarily this would be a problem, but with these chracters it is a delight. Kind of like the Bond films and Sherlock Holmes pistaches. We expect something of The Doctor and we are not let down. ...
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