Mystic Warrior (The Bronze Canticles, Book 1)
by Tracy Hickman
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Read in April, 2007
It has been a while since I have read a book which so heavily depended on a sequel to continue its story lines. And I have to say, it is really annoying! Nothing is resolved really and hardly anything makes any sense yet. That being said, it is an interesting direction that the Hickman's took for this set of worlds, I'm not familiar with any works that function like this. True, it does bear some resemblance to Weis and Hickman's Death Gate Cycle in the different worlds, but a unified world as th...more
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Read in December, 2007
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Sci-fantasy readers
Another good fantasy series from Tracy and Laura Hickman. This book is about three connected universes that are slowly being drawn together. The human world, the goblin world and the faery world. Galen, a human blacksmith, is trying to hide his magical powers. Anyone in this world with magic is deemed a lunatic. Galen is captured by Dragon Priests and imprisoned. His wife, Berkita and best friend, Cephas the dwarf set off to rescue him. Read this book to find out what happens to Galen.
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Read in October, 2008
Although this book was full of good ideas it failed at putting them all together in a way that made sense. The book starts out with a “Thrice upon a time” with the idea of telling three stories from three different worlds that somehow were connected. Unfortunately we never found out how they were connected. I was very disappointed with this book and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.
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Read in August, 2007
I'm not really in love with this series, which is a shame as I normally really like Tracy Hickman's books that are written with Margaret Weis in the Dragonlance series. This series has left me feeling like I'm playing mental catch up so many times. There are often deliberate time gaps and content gaps where you're left trying to infer what has happened.
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Read in September, 2007
Book didn't draw me in after the first chapter. I Didn't enjoy the writing style. First person narratives are dull, especially when the characters and settings are unfamiliar and not strong. Map style and place names were similar to Dragonlance setting, which is annoying, since this is supposed to be another world.
Meh.
Meh.
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Read in March, 2005
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Fantasy/Dragonlance lovers
Fantastic! Great break out novel. I always thought of the name Hickman in link with the other authors from Dragonlance, but the authors really managed to break away and create a rare gem in the fantasy world. Loved this book, and if you like fantasy you will too.
NOTE:
Get all three if you can. They are all great.
NOTE:
Get all three if you can. They are all great.
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Read in June, 2007
The first book was barely worth 2 stars, it got worse from there. If all Hickman's books are this bad he should really consider another career, and spare the world from things that bring disgrace to the entire fantasy genre.
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Read in January, 2005
Compared to the other stories that Tracy Hickman has co-written, this was so-so. I didn't really get into the story, and the dual-world thing didn't really work for me.
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Read in August, 2006
The ideas in this book are okay on their own, but the writing is clunky and some of the purplest prose I've read in a while. I won't be reading the sequels.
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Out of the three most seperate stories, two of them were entertaining. Would have been a four if not for that third story.
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not one of hickman's better books. It was disjointed and confusing, never making the story click on its own.
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Fun fantasy story. I wasn't interested enough in the series to continue, but it was a fun read.
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