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Submitted by Ken Boyd 
(Sep 11, 2001)

I've read a good deal of fantasy and sci-fi books in my time and this book was perhaps the most original I have ever read. The main character and protagonist is not some great knight clad in golden armor wielding a magic sword but a young girl who doesn't know what the hell is going on. It doesn't have long, boring tedious pages of unnecessary descriptions like Robert Jordan and doesn't have the predictability of David Eddings. It's fast-paced with great description and has decent characterization. I also like the fact that the leading role is a girl and not a man for once. I find that it's good to have woman for a main character and not the long line of men that haunts the history of this genre of books.

This book absolutly captivated my heart. Every page was an swirl of emotions. I clung to everyword with my heart hoping for the better of the wonderous characters portrayed in this beautiful peice of work.Not many stories hold my mind in it's bindings, but this one did. The world Alasea felt so real to me as I read, the characters became a part of me, my friends as they made their way through the epic adventure.I couldn't put the book down at all! If it wasn't for the simple obscurities of life I would of read straight through night and day to drink in the last of the words. Clemens is a man of wonder for creating such a masterpeice! I have found my new favourite novel...and series.

This book is the only one I've read of the series so far. It was a brilliant introduction to a dark fantasy. There are heroes and villains, and an epic story where in the fate of the world itself rests, but there is very little about it that is happy. Fate is cruel, in this story, as I'm sure it must be when one is experiencing it.

This I think is what impressed me the most about the book and story and plot. Faced with the shocking, disheartening and tragic revelations made in the book, I can only doubt that success will happen. The story's circumstances and events may even make the reader wish for a painless death for the main character, instead of success in her fate, for it seems that would be more humane. This contrary view to the story itself is what caught  my intention and impressed me as I read. Maybe I am alone in feeling this strange way about the story, but I think its a concept worth thinking about while reading the series.

I really loved these books.  I want to know when to look for the third book.  I couldn't put the books down.  Then I finished, I needed to have the third installment.. AArrgg... Does anyone know...
Or how to send an email to James Clemens..

I feel that this was a very interesting and fun book. It held my heart and squeezed it almost every page. I cried and and got excited all at the same time, staying up several nights at a time reading and not being able to put it down. I really recommend reading this book.