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A Feast Of Dragons (2000)

by Morgan Rice(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 2

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Romance

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The Sorcerer's Ring

review 1: This is the third book to the series that I am reading. This book is about Thor going to the isle of the mist which is going to be a guru-ling experience. This training called the hundred and it will test everyone. It is called the hundred because they will be there for One Hundred days. The experience will make them a better solider and the ones who survive will become a permanent part of the legion.
review 2: I really wanted to give this series a chance. I mean, at $3 per ebook, the three stories are worth the $9. Who knows? I may finish the other ten books at some point. However, there are too many things that outright annoy me about the writing that I can't give the stories any more than 3 stars.Firstly, this series is a cheap knockoff of Game of Thrones. ... moreThat's obvious, to me at least. (I will admit that some of the following parallels are weak, but there are so many, that it feels obvious to me.)Both are told from a third-person omniscient narrator per character, per chapter. As for those characters, Gareth seems to parallel Joffrey, because both are pretty terrible kings. (Gareth also parallels Renly a bit because they're both, um, not interested in the women they marry.) Both stories have bastards who can't rule because they're bastards, but who are otherwise pretty honorable characters (Kendrick and Jon Snow). Both stories have an honorable king-type figure whose fatal flaw is that they're too trusting, which gets them assassinated or executed (King MacGil and Ned Stark). Both have daughters of those king-figures who should be ruling (Gwen and Sansa). One has the Legion and one has the Night's Watch (Kolk reminds me a lot of Alliser). Both have characters with powers they do not understand (Thor and Bran), which include mind-controlling animals (Thor with the dragon in this story and Bran with his direwolf).Both are also set in medieval times. Both have fantasy/magic.Secondly, let's touch on that medieval setting, shall we? Just because the stories are set in a medieval time period with castles and chivalry and what not, that doesn't mean the dialogue has to be overly pretentious. The dialogue is, at times, ridiculously terrible.Thirdly, let's talk about the fantasy elements. This is my biggest annoyance with the stories and this third part in the series in particular. The Isle of Mist is absolutely ridiculous. Red water. Creatures with two mouths or multiple heads, or "like a rhinoceros, but three times the size". Seriously. Two suns that rise and set at different times and change color with each season, so the sky is sometimes purple, sometimes yellow? Races of people with fangs and green skin? Purple skin? Absolutely absurd.Fantasy at its finest is not over-the-top, but it rooted in reality. Lord of the Rings--where George R.R. Martin likely found his inspiration for Game of Thrones (but didn't copy!)--has made-up-races, such as the hobbits and orcs, as well as other races that were borrowed from existing folklore (which many other authors also do, rather than make up new creatures, to make their stories more believable), such as trolls, elves, dwarves, goblins and dragons. Lord of the Rings also has a few wizards who can perform limited magic with their staffs, as well as rings with certain powers. That's about it. When this third story introduces a cyclops, I felt like it came out of left field, because almost every other creature to that point was totally made up, rather than borrowed from existing mythologies, like the cyclops and the dragon later.That all said, if I ignore all this (as well as the overly, overly, overly repeated mentions of Thor's "destiny"--enough is enough already!), the stories aren't all that bad. I mean, the reason I've read three stories so far is that each book ends in a cliffhanger and I've become emotionally invested in the characters enough to want to know what happens to them next. They're a very easy, very quick read, which I also like. I can read a book in a few hours if I did nothing else, but obviously, life doesn't work that way, so it usually takes me a couple days. There are plots and counterplots. I also like the titles of each book--and the way that the author refers to the title very clearly within each book (except that I didn't notice that in this story so much--what happened?). Actually, not that I recommend judging books by their covers, but it really was the covers that intrigued me enough to get me started with this series. Each one is just a different castle with a different color sky in the background, but golly, do I love castles (ahem, Hogwarts)!Even now, I'm itching to find out what happens next. I want Gareth off that throne SO BADLY. But I have so many other books on my to-read list... Hmm. I'll get back to this series some other time! less

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