Books by Stephen R. Lawhead
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review 1: The Shadow Lamp is the fourth quest in Stephen Lawhead’s Bright Empires series; reading it without a prior grounding in the series will significantly reduce your enjoyment of any of the books, and may even break your brain. For that reason, I won’t waste too much time on how the ...
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review 1: Every once in a while a book comes along that doesn't quite fit in a five star rating system. King Raven is one of those.... six stars at least. It is a retelling of an age-old story, but what a retelling. I didn't realize that I was reading a re-imagining of Robin Hood, so I mis...
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review 1: Well, I certainly did like it! Maybe not loved it, but it was soooo interesting. Lawhead writes beautifully and descriptively, and I liked the fact that this book filled in the answers to so many questions -- consolation for the questions it introduced!! It was a little slower th...
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review 1: I like the premise of this book but I found that it dragged without much action. One, the book is front loaded with too much dialogue that is obviously "telling" in order to do the world building. I much prefer to have the world and its mechanics shown to me. Two, one of the char...
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review 1: Interesting approach to the story. Don't think the individual books would stand very well on their own. The story is a solid four stars, with the storytelling getting better and better in each book. The formatting/proof reading is terrible, especially in the first and second book...