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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 3 1/2 Stars: I have read quite a bit of Lawrence Watt-Evan's stories over the years. One of my favorite tales is The Misenchanted Sword. While I liked the idea of a fantasy realm with a check and balance system and several other ideas. The story itself seemed a bit flat. The writing is descriptive, but there is a lot more talking than action in the book. Also a few of the more standard fantasy plots make an appearance in the book. So overall it was a rather straight forward fantasy romp with no real surprises or tremendous action. I liked his Dragon series a lot, this one left me wanting more. A very stereotypical and predictable fantasy. I feel like there could have been some plot twists that would have made this more interesting, but the author did not take them. The sequel was not much better. Solid reading, with sense and logic, but also with pretty much all the elements of a traditional quest fantasy (magic items, evil magic-users, fighters, thieves, the young man growing up, etc.) done in a not super-predictable way. Good for people who enjoy traditional fantasy but who are tired of knowing the exact nature of the ending before they get twenty pages in. Maybe if I re-read it, I'll give it a 5 next time, if I'm more capable of feeling emotions at that point. ;) Solid, workmanlike, entertaining but nothing too original here. Usual Fantasy business of setting off on a quest, in this case to kill a rogue "Wizard Lord," narrated from the point of view of one of the Chosen (the eight savants who can remove a Wizard Lord). Interesting enough that I'd pick up the sequel if I saw it, but enough like everything else I seem to be reading lately that if I miss it I can't imagine I'll feel the loss. no reviews | add a review
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