An utterly terrific read...
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I've read 'King's Dragon' from cover to cover a couple of times already! But have yet to get my hands on 'Prince of Dogs' or 'Burning Stone' (books are scarce where I am)... This is just a really terrific read... I've never tired of reading it again and again... I really, really love the characters as they are fleshed out wonderfully... the plot is engaging and the background history gives the world a real 3d feel... Recommended to anyone who likes a book with adventure and drama! And anyone who likes fantasy should *definately* give this one a shot!
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An utterly terrific read...
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I've read 'King's Dragon' from cover to cover a couple of times already! But have yet to get my hands on 'Prince of Dogs' or 'Burning Stone' (books are scarce where I am)... This is just a really terrific read... I've never tired of reading it again and again... I really, really love the characters as they are fleshed out wonderfully... the plot is engaging and the background history gives the world a real 3d feel... Recommended to anyone who likes a book with adventure and drama! And anyone who likes fantasy should *definately* give this one a shot!
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Loved it
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This book was good from beginning to end. Great plots, great characters, a well crafted world. There is a significant amount of description, but not too much at once and no more than is necessary to let the reader know what is needed about what's going on. Though I had trouble following the myriad and convoluted relationships, there was never any doubt as to who was doing what. I had never heard of Kate Elliot before this and then the design of King's Dragon cover art put me off from the book for a while. But I'm eager to pick up the next book in this series and anything else I can find by the author.
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A really good book, but......
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I really enjoyed this book, but it had a problem that just really cheapend the book for me. It's a simple thing really. The author did a holesale ripe off of the Roman Catholic church. From the tearms used to address religous figures and changing the spelling of historical persons names and their writtings, for example Eusebuius wrote the Ecclesatical history, but how was it in the text Eusebi. And what I really thought was the worst were several blatent quations from the new testament, from Acts 2 for example to the names of the four gospels of the fictional church which were in the case of three gospels, slightly changed names and then then one from a noncannonical source. Other than the author's poorly borrowed christian tradition, I loved the book, I thought this portion really lacked imagination and originality.
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WONDERFUL
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I liked the book. Laith's character was a little boring in parts but on the whole it was a good book. I await Prince of Dogs axiously and hope that I don't have to much longer.
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