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Land Of The Burning Sands (2010)

by Rachel Neumeier(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0316072796 (ISBN13: 9780316072793)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Orbit

series

Griffin Mage

review 1: We pretty much abandon our original characters and county as the action moves to Casmantium and the geas-bound slave Gereint and the engineer/philospher/mage Lady Tehre. There aren't as many griffins but they (and Lord Bertaud) show up at the end. Neumeier seems to excel at presenting tricky points of honor and politics and making her characters come to terms with them made for interesting reading in this book again. I also was impressed with Lady Tehre's difficulties with crack fatigue and failure questions. Having worked for an engineering company, her mental gyrations on that and related topics read surprisingly accurately.
review 2: *Much* better than the 1st book - the plot flows easily and the characters are well-developed and universally interesting if n... moreot totally sympathetic while still being varied. The author obviously learned something from writing the first book. Of course much awkward world-building is out of the way here, but she still does a great job building the new country in this one, with few characters common to each book. Very interesting look from a perspective quite opposed to the first book's. Can't wait to see what she does with the 3rd. less

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