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he uptown girls are headed downtown as Serena and Jenny take on their new fabulous roles as rock-star model girlfriends of New York's hottest band, The Raves. Meanwhile, Dan is too busy drowning his sorrows in empty bottles to notice a mysterious French beauty who has a penchant for dirty, Jim Morrison-wannabe lead singers. Blair takes residence at the Plaza to think about her future. Will she become a gun-toting international spy or Manhattan's snobbiest society hostess? Decisions are so difficult! Sounds like everyone needs a day off at the spa. And Senior Spa Day promises to serve up further doses of scandal for New York's busiest private-school vixens.
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Another Great Gossip Girl.......2007-08-22
Cecily Von Ziegesar really keeps things interesting in her seventh Gossip Girl book. In this book, Senior Spa Weekend is coming. Things with Blair and Nate aren't good, when Nate steals his parents yacht to bring with stoner friends on vacation. Blair gets mad because Nate was supposed to meet her at the Plaza Hotel. Dan leaves the Raves band after he pukes all over at a concert, and Jenny joins as the lead singer, that is until things fall apart with her life. Next year she won't be back at Constance Billard, unless she repeats ninth grade. Blair moves in with Vanessa and gives her apartment a makeover and hooks Vanessa up with Aaron. At the Senior Spa Weekend, Blair finds out that she has made it into Yale, and also that Nate is cheating on her with Lexique and she finds Serena making out with him. Interesting gossipy book. I really liked this one!
BEST of the series.......2007-04-25
This book is my favorite of the entire series. Blair finally doesn't let Nate walk all over her and he realizes how much he took her for granted.
It is entertaining throughout.
Rich Stob just like me.......2007-03-10
I am a rich snob I am spolied and a brat and have no problem with it. These books are great and i am 13. Lori T that said parents beware my mom let me get and on the back of the cover it says "Sex in the city for teens" Well on one of them it said. If you excatly stop worrying about what your child might do maybe just let her be. Maybe because you not as wealthy as some of them or me maybe this pisses you off too. This is coming from a child and I love these books.
Gossip girls.........2006-11-02
Gossip girls is a good book. Its comparable to "Sex in the City" in teen characterisation. Its mostly about sex, drugs, and drama. Pretty much teen life now. The girls in this book are the prettiest and go to the finest schools.
They're basically the "IT" girls. They're really rude and act like snobs but what do you expect from rich teens.
By the title you can already tell what it is about which is gossip. Honestly there was some parts where I turned the page from boredom. Also other parts where I couldn't stop reading. There are four main characters. Blaire, Serena, Vennasa and Nate, Blair's boyfriend. The characters have just graduated from high school. In this book Blair and Nate are back together, couldn't be happier. Until Nate ends up screwing things up and tries to fix things. Blair and Serenna are best friends still, until Blair catches Serenna and Nate kissing. Blair ends up moving in with Vennassa. She also gets accecpted into Yale so she has accomplished a goal. It's a very good book. I recommend it to older teens, but not so much younger because of the crude humor.
I recommend it to anybody who would like to read real life books. However I would think you would want to read the other books first because this was the first one I read and I was a little lost. I would have to say Cecily von Ziegesar is a good author, she has a good grip on what's happening in real life and shoving it into a series of books and making it fun to read.
Overall I liked it.
loved!.......2006-08-20
I loved this book, just like the others (from 1 to 6). You simply can't stop reading! I already bought numbers 8 and 9 and I can't wait to start reading... I MUST know what will happen in Blair and Serena's future!
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Presented by legendary comic book author Jim Shooter, this book is a fast-paced science fiction novel with all the flair and fun of a comic book.
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Super Reader.......2007-08-30
As you find out at the end, two brothers (with bad pun names - Dr. Know and Rex Monday), are born with strange abilities. World encompassing telepathy, and the reverse, and super genius level intelligence. So, one sets out to make things better, one eventually to stop him. Their incredibly powerful children, are, of course, horribly screwed up. A time travel mistake produce the title character, a man who has never been born, and is hence invisible and immaterial most of the time, except to this extraordinary family, or the occasional other sensitive. This, of course, can be used a superpower. It also makes him immune to the mental abilities of the two brothers. One of the super powered sibilings fancies him because of this, because he is one of the very few men her father cannot mind control, while, basically, he is shagging her.
Things spiral out of control, escalating into violence, and assassination.
In a twist, the end of the story encompasses areoforming, after the two megalomaniacs are out of the picture, Thanks to Nobody and their wife.
Comic book prose.......2007-08-03
James Maxey has created a short novel with a comic book feel. All the superhero-ness and action that I love of comics, but without the art and with added depth of character, description, and exposition. A quick, fun read, I would have loved it even more if I had read it in grade school - the style is effortless to read, and it holds interest well. The reasoning behind the characters' origins and the way things progress seem to have been well thought out. I will probably pick up another of Maxey's books for a vacation read.
Brain candy.......2006-01-31
I won't pretend this is great literature, or even great s.f. But it does make an entertaining read. Take one part *Mystery Men*, two parts Alan Moore's *Watchmen*, mix thoroughly and enjoy.
This book is both a parody and an exploration of the comic book superhero universe. The protagonist is a man whose superpower is that he no longer exists . . . sort of. He's employed---sort of---by the man who created the universe . . . sort of. Nothing is quite as simple as it should be in this novel. While Maxey doesn't acheive quite the same character depth as Orson Scott Card, he shares his tendency to explore the mind even of his darkest characters.
An entertaining read.......2005-11-25
I had reservations about buying this book based solely on the title and the cover art. It had received good reviews all around, so I gave it a chance.
The novel turned out to be fine; a fun read all in all. I felt that the characters were strong and interesting, even if some of their powers weren't. Nobody's plight of being invisible drew me into the world, with the beginning portion of him haunting houses being particularly amusing.
I only had one issue with the story, that being how the world was formed. Sounds weird, I know, but if you read it you'll understand - I'm trying to remain spoiler-free.
If you like superheroes, then this novel is a safe bet. If you're a fan of fiction in general, and you don't have a problem with superheroes, then you'll most likely have fun.
Review of James Maxey's "Nobody Gets the Girl".......2005-08-02
"Nobody Gets the Girl" is a takeoff on super-heroes, somewhat reminiscent of Grant Morrison's "Superfolks." Maxey, however, veers in a different direction. Where Morrison asks the question, "What happens to a super-hero when he can't keep going anymore?", Maxey asks why such people should exist at all--and comes up with a creative answer.
Others have tackled the same issue, both in novels and in the comics (see Valiant Comics' revival of Dr. Solar, Man of the Atom, as an example), but Maxey's approach is lighter, somewhat tongue-in-cheek. It might not be to the taste of those who prefer their super-heroics written straight, but it works.
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- Carrie Bradshaw circa 1989
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- Your clothing has feelings!
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- Given this book as gift a dozen times
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Fabulous Nobodies: A Novel About a Girl Who's in Love With Her Clothes
Lee Tulloch
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Carrie Bradshaw circa 1989.......2007-04-15
Are you curious about the life of Carrie Bradshaw before she became the successful columnist with a penchant for designer clothes and $450 shoes? If you answered "Yes!" then you need to read this book. The story of Reality Nirvana Tuttle is, without a doubt, an unintended pre-quel to Sex and the City.
Ignore what the woman from Library Journal has to say! I'm certain that she's the wrong demographic to understand the social relevance of this story. Fabulous Nobodies is funny, earnest, so very New York City in the late 1980s, and, for those of us who were in our 20s during that time, a wonderfully fun trip down memory lane. If you can remember when in was possible to rent an apartment in alphabet city for $350 month and have a tub in your kitchen then you'll appreciate this story. If you can remember scouring Goodwill, Sal's Boutique, and vintage clothing shops with your meager earnings from a club, record store, or underground publication then you'll appreciate this story. If you can remember life before the internet and came of age at a time when local fanzines and arts newspapers were the ruling social arbiters then you'll appreciate this story.
Lee Tulloch's book is a completely captivating snapshot of a place, time, and people who no longer exist except in our scrapbooks and collected memorabilia.
sharp acerbic satire.......2006-08-02
Twentyish Reality Nirvana Tuttle determines who can enter the Less is More Manhattan nightclub though no one, not even she, knows her conditions, which change almost on a whim, but that impulse is inside her brain. It might be an outfit that was in a half hour ago but seems so ancient at this moment. Reality is a pro at what she does as fool "doorwhores'' can match her skill at picking the trendy and tossing the has-beens and wanabees to the street.
However, Reality faces reality when it comes to her one ambition in life as so far she has failed to achieve her goal. She desperately wants to be featured in Hugo Falks' weekly gossip column in Frenzie as a hip woman of power on the move. She enlists her friends, Perfect Woman editor Phoebe, transvestite Geoffrey, and his dog Cristobal Balenciaga to cause a scandal that will turn her from almost famous to famous.
This reprint still retains its sharp acerbic lampoon of the jet set who needs to obtain fame even if it only for fifteen minutes. Reality is a terrific protagonist whose obsession becomes her reality, but never interferes with her selection of who's in and who's polar. Celebrity status takes a beating as Lee Tulloch's satire rips into the cost and inane need to become a known "personality".
Harriet Klausner
Your clothing has feelings!.......2003-04-18
Hilarious homage to clothing and finding THE perfect outfit. Reality "Really" Tuttle was born in the late 60's, so if you are in the same genre as myself, you will definitely appreciate references to ghastly 80's attire that she despises as well as the detailed descriptions of her frocks. ...
"Chick Lit" Before It Even Had A Name.......2003-02-09
Before Bridget Jones, Sex and the City, or Shopaholic, there was Lee Tulloch's "Fabulous Nobodies."
Lee Tulloch was once the editor of Australian Vogue, and she puts her knowledge of fashion and the whole fashion glam scene to hysterically funny use in this little novel. The book opens with a hilarious narrative about the main character's nails of all things.
It's been years since I read Fabulous Nobodies, but it's a definite stand-out in a genre that didn't exist when the book was published in the early 90s. If you're in your 20s, a slave to fashion, any or all of the above, you've got to read this book. You can finish it in a day and you'll spend most of the time laughing at the antics of the main character and her crew. Our 20s are a great time of life (if only in retrospect), because we're no longer teenagers but not quite mature enough to be adults, so there's much goofing off, goofing around, and goofing up to learn from (or at least laugh about). Fabulous Nobodies is filled with all three. Don't miss this one.
Given this book as gift a dozen times.......2001-07-11
The writing is masterful, the characters are alive, the story has a compelling mythical power, it should've won a pulitzer. It is wonderful and splendid and shall never perish. It has a deep, soulful message. It has an archetypal power, it shall become a classic. It could be the basis of a great Broadway musical, and we know they are not making great musicals nowadays. Just as My Fair Lady is a great musical, but still consider it now still a Pygmalion. I imagine a animated chorus line of frocks, inhabitated by many the great fashion icons. I would die to see that musical.
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Girl Nobody
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Best Book Ever.......2005-05-31
Girl Nobody was by far the best book I have ever read. While reading it I got myself completely into the story. I could sympathize with Marysia very well, I felt the same as her. I definitely recommend this book.
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It's been nineteen months since thirty-year-old Birdy Stone came to Pinetop. Birdy spends her days trying to teach her students to appreciate the beauty of literature and her nights getting high with Jesus, her gay colleague and confidant. Birdy regards Pinetop as merely an escapade. But the desultory quality of her life is interrupted when a middle-aged widow asks Birdy to edit her rambling memoir. Combining superb storytelling with good humor, Antonya Nelson follows Birdy as she helps Mrs. Anthony reconstruct the history surrounding the bizarre and mysterious deaths of Mrs. Anthony's husband and daughter years earlier. As Birdy is drawn deeper into her subject's story, she begins a love affair with Mrs. Anthony's surviving son -- a young man who just happens to be one of Birdy's students. With its sensuous and lovingly rendered Southwestern setting, Nobody's Girl is a startling novel that showcases the striking talents of an emminently gifted writer.
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Not Nelson's Greatest but Worth Reading.......2007-07-10
I pretty much read anything by Antonya Nelson--and with great pleasure. She's one of this century's strongest, funniest and most original auhtors of family relations, and always a pleasure. Plus, her writing keeps getting better.
This earlier novel, however, doesn't do her justice. The main character is hard to like, the prose meanders, and Nelson's point gets lost beneath her striving to make such a point.
Perceptive Author.......2005-10-26
Ever since reading Antonya Nelson's short story 'Control Group', which was once a finalist in the O'Henry Awards, I've realized she's so perceptive when it comes to developing the personalities of her characters that it's scary. I've read many of her short stories and had to read one of her novels. I wasn't bored, for not once did she lose touch with that human pulse that brings the people in her stories so close to the surface they seem breathe back at you from the pages!
Chrissy K. McVay
author of 'Souls of the North Wind'
Nobody's Book.......2003-01-04
The way the review read, I thought this book would be interesting. It's strange, I know, but I find seduction combining older and younger parties intriguing (may I reccommend PURE by rebbecca ray of INNOCENTS by cathy coote for those of you in the same boat). However, this book was incredibly boring.
I'm not trying to be harsh, but from the very start I knew I didn't like Birdy Stone. The scene the book opens on is where Birdy is explaining to her students that depressing literature is much more meaningful and lasting than happy lit. And almost as if it were forshadowing, the whole book was...depressing.
Perhaps a good read for those in the mood for an emotional sponge, but deffinitely not a book for those looking for breathtakingly magnificent prose. It certainly wasn't MY book anyway. I just wouldn't reccomend it.
Nobody's Book.......2003-01-04
The way the review read, I thought this book would be interesting. It's strange, I know, but I find seduction combining older and younger parties intriguing (may I reccommend PURE by rebbecca ray of INNOCENTS by cathy coote for those of you in the same boat). However, this book was incredibly boring.
I'm not trying to be harsh, but from the very start I knew I didn't like Birdy Stone. The scene the book opens on is where Birdy is explaining to her students that depressing literature is much more meaningful and lasting than happy lit. And almost as if it were forshadowing, the whole book was...depressing.
Perhaps a good read for those in the mood for an emotional sponge, but deffinitely not a book for those looking for breathtakingly magnificent prose. It certainly wasn't MY book anyway. I just wouldn't reccomend it.
alternative title: "Nobody Cares...".......2000-11-13
Antonya Nelson is a talented writer. Her words illicit emotional responses. Unfortunately by the end of this book my overall emotional response was "who cares?" A failing for me was Birdie's character arch - basically that there was none. Birdie is an unsympathetic character at the beginning of the book and even less sympathetic by the end. The actual murder mystery woven into the plot is anticlimatic. Either plot device (Birdie's "growth" or the murder's solution) needed to make a stronger impression. In general the book was great dissappointment.
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Title: Von Ziegesar, Cecily. Nobody does it better; a Gossip Girl novel.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Author: Joanna Solomon
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Date: July 1, 2005
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Volume: 39
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A woman at the icy end of the sea yearns to reach the stars but her broomstick refuses to fly. When a mysterious raven lures her into daunting adventures, with wide-ranging implications for the well-being of all living things, she learns that neither ghosts nor monsters are her deadliest adversaries, but the whisperings of her own fears. Fighting her way through her darkest nightmares the woman prevails, but realizes in the end that each man alone must create his heaven or his hell on earth. THE WOMAN AND THE RAVEN is a poetic myth about the importance of the words we say to ourselves, and others.
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A good ancient, mythical story.......2007-07-20
Based on Icelandic myths, this story takes place in the distant past, when trolls and elves still walked the earth. A woman lives alone in a cottage, far from anyone else. It is full to overflowing with books, parchments and scrolls, many written in languages that were dead even back then. She yearns to return to the stars, but her broomstick refuses to function, for she has lost the magic.
A raven-wizard gives her three tasks, in order to help heal a broken world. The woman must return a runic sword to its proper owner, a knight who has been dead for many years. She must, single-handedly, defeat a hideous wyvern living in a huge lake (think of the Loch Ness Monster, but with a nastier disposition). Then, the woman must find and return a large blue gem, the Stone of Antariel, to its rightful owners, a race of elves. It's not as easy as it sounds; the forces of evil are keeping a close eye on the woman and her progress.
This story has a different, almost mystical, feel to it, and it's really good. It's a short novel, about 100 pages, and anyone who enjoys ancient, mythical stories will enjoy this one.
Inner demons.......2007-06-01
Reviewed by Susan Pettrone for Reader Views (5/07)
In this somewhat slim volume, a world of mystical, magical life begins. Set in an icy world filled with wintry beauty, we meet a woman on the first page of "The Woman and The Raven," who though strong in her independence, is caught within a nightmare of her own making. Though she seems satisfied carving a life for herself out of what the wintry land around her offers, still she dreams of more. Her dreams, incantations and legends interwoven within this book, are simple yet so complex, that at times the reader isn't sure what is happening is within the present, the past or possibly the future. Her nightmares become reality as she is faced not with the demons and monsters most are afraid of, but terrors which are hers alone.
There is no doubt in the mind of the reader that this woman is fantastical in many ways, but as the story grows, the legends and magical life of this woman create a tapestry of such contrast between beauty and horror that the ending of the book leaves the reader realizing that the monsters she battled were not of the real world around her but were monsters created of her own fears. These fears are those which live within her heart....fears which she alone must face and overcome.
The mood set within the pages of "The Woman and The Raven" is also touched by this woman, for her experiences had the ability to take this reader from a small room in a home amidst a big city and transport her to a fortress of elves within a far away land. This was a book where I found myself enraptured with the story within while feeling an odd sense of internal connection while visiting this land so different from my own. Perhaps it was because this woman was battling demons not unlike many we battle each day or perhaps it was because she seemed to be someone we all have known at one time in our lives. Whatever the reason, "The Woman and The Raven" was a book this reader will not long forget and which will I expect, be one drawn from the shelves and experienced over and over again, each time anew as the woman within makes discoveries, not unlike those many of us make every day.
Mythic fantasy about Iceland.......2007-04-18
This brief book reads like a mythic tale out of Icelandic folklore--and perhaps it is. The author spent time as writer in residence at the cultural center in Gunnarssfnun, Iceland, and thanks the people for their songs and stories.
The story takes place at a time "when trolls and elves roamed the earth." The unknown woman heroine, the chief character, is a magic-user, but she can no longer fly to the stars, our ancient home. She is set on a difficult path by a Raven-Wizard: she must use a runic sword, slay a vicious wyvern and recover a lost Elven gem, which gives our world its light. These seem impossible tasks, since she must oppose the Shadow Sorcerer, the evil one loosed upon our world.
The writing has a lyric mystical quality about it, even though it uses simple words; and in a few sentences it reminds us that men can make of Earth either a heaven or a hell.
Armchair Interviews says if mythic fantasy is your forte, then you will want to read this one.
Icelandic alchemy.......2007-04-13
This tale from the Icelandic Eastfjords takes the readers by the hand and leads them through a magic realm of sparkeling snow and colorful skies into legendary lands. As you wonder through winter's wonderland the wind searches your bones, the heart yearns for life light as the stars and you drift into tales within tales, some of them as ancient as archaic fears. Despite the songs and stories contained within a story the tale is not just that. The adventures of the reluctant heroine beset with doubts only serve as a fable - much like Paolo Coelho's Alchemist - for the reader to look inside and change the little voice that we all carry in our head so that it may speak of freedom and success and no longer of defeat and failure.
original and exciting .......2007-03-27
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this original and exciting adventure among trolls and elves. People of legends and sagas come to life and you get to know them as well as your next-door neighbor.
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Classic Darkover.......2006-04-20
Andrew Carr is part of the Mapping and Exploration team which is charting the planet of Darkover for the newly-arrived Terran Empire. Like all Earthmen, Andrew is cynical about psi powers, so he shrugs off a meeting with an old fortuneteller in the Spaceport's trade city who shows him a beautiful red-headed girl in her crystal ball.
What Andrew doesn't know is that this dim, cold world is filled with people with vast psychic powers they call "laran" or "donas", and Andrew himself has been suppressing his potential in the noisy, crowded empire. After his plane crashes in the icy mountains, Andrew receives visions of the lovely Callista, who has been kidnapped by nonhumans. The Earthman must overcome his prejudices and inner mental blocks to aid her kinsman in her rescue, then ultimately find his place between the two worlds.
Classic Bradley. I take out my well-worn paperbacks and re-read them every couple of years.
jacket review.......2006-02-25
from the back cover of the September 1974 Daw paperback edition
Although Darkover was a world inhabited by humans as well as semi-humans, it was primarily forbidden ground to the Terran traders. Most of the planet's wild terrain was unexplored...and many of its peoples seclusive and secretive.
But for Andrew Garr there was an attraction he could not evade. Darkover drew him, Darkover haunted him-and when his mapping plane crashed in unknown heights, Darkover prepared to destroy him.
Until the planet's magic asserted itself-and his destiny began to unfold along lines predicted only by phantoms and wonder workers of the kind Terran science could never acknowledge.
a good Darkover novel.......2004-03-12
"The Spell Sword" is another Darkover novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley. This one is set sometime after the Terran Empire rediscovered Darkover. Now there are both the Darkovan natives, as well as men from Terra living on Darkover. This novel begins in a way that we have seen several times before: with a crash of a Terran vehicle on Darkover. This time it is from a team based at the Terran outpost at Thendara. Andrew Carr is a member of the Mapping and Explorations team that is slowly gathering information about Darkover. In a winter storm, the plane crashed and it was only through what Andrew thought was a hallucination that he was able to survive for very long in the storm. Andrew had visions of a woman named Callista guiding him away from the plane and to safety, but he had difficulty believing that these visions might be true. Eventually, Carr does come to accept that the vision is more than a hallucination, but someone communicating with him.
Damon Ridenow has been called to help find Callista, who has gone missing without a trace. Before Damon arrives at Callista's home he has to travel through someplace called "the darkened land" where the land is in shadows, uninhabitable and attacks can come from invisible assailants. Not a place you would want to spend much time. After passing through "the darkened land", Damon learns more about Callista's abduction and also meets Andrew Carr who was led there somehow by the vision of Callista. When Andrew and Damon discuss what has happened, they see the connection and that the only way to save Callista is by working together. Damon is surprised to discover that Andrew, a Terran, also has the potential to be a telepath, which Damon believed was a skill native to Darkover.
Throughout the Darkover series we hear that there are non-human races on the planet: the chieri and the cat-people. While we see the chieri once or twice, we have never seen the cat-people before and this was an area that I was interested in. For the most part, they are not developed as a race or as characters, except that we now know that some can be telepaths like humans (and chieri). We also know that they are mainly enemies of humans (though they have worked with the less reputable humans from the Dry Towns), though Damon does allow that their motives and culture are so far removed from human that it would be difficult to truly comprehend it.
This is a short novel, coming in less than 200 pages, but I found it to be fairly entertaining and I suspect that it sets the stage for the much longer "The Forbidden Tower" which features many of the same characters. "The Spell Sword" serves as introduction to Andrew Carr, Damon Ridenow, and Callista. It is fairly good for a fantasy novel, though it does not feature the depth of some. This is a straight forward story with some action.
Couldn't Put it Down.......2002-07-29
The story line is so exciting, and the characters so lovable. A person can't help but get into it, and have a hard time not thinking about the story or wondering what's next. It took no time at all to read the book, partly because of the suspense and partly because it's only 156 pages. It's an excellent appetizer, some of her other books are longer, but from the three that I've read they all seem to have the same effect.
A good Read.......2002-05-16
This book is full of suspence, and it has some interesting information. There is also a love story that only makes it better. I would reccomend this book to any fan of MZB.
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The best of science fiction and fantasy...Through a Gate on distant Earth, Simon Tregarth had come, to a world where witches rule supreme. In the land of Estcarp - home of the Old Race, peace-loving heirs to archaic knowledge - he drove out invading aliens and became a great and respected leader. But his children, a warrior, a warlock and a witch, fled the witches' rule, answering an ineffable call to the forgotten land of Escore. There, they warred with the evil stirred to life by their coming....a peril that continues unabated.....
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Norton fan.......2007-02-08
Very good read. I am a fan of the Witch World series.
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- Of Swords and Spells -- Read it...
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Of Swords and Spells
Delia Marshall Turner
Manufacturer: Del Rey
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Release Date: 1998-12-26 |
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Of Swords and Spells overlaps Turner's first book, Nameless Magery. This book is set in the same universe and its narrator is another determined young female who has a lot more to her than it first appears. Their stories converge, however, providing two contrasting perspectives on magic. But Malka faces different circumstances from Lisane's.
In this universe, magic runs spaceships, computers, and communications devices. The Enforcers, an interstellar police force, have developed a form not controlled by adepts. Now they are killing mages and the worlds that breed them to consolidate their monopoly on power. Their only opposition is an android named Roder and his crew of free witches, who officially monitor Enforcement and report abuses to the government. Running from the Enforcers and her sadistic master, Malka takes refuge in Roder's ship, then finds that it has also become a target. Malka is small, bad-tempered, and tired of being used. She'd rather not care what happens to Roder, his crew, or his mission, but she's developing human feelings and a conscience as she grows. Besides, Roder is very attractive.
Turner blends science fiction and fantasy freely, springs several nifty plot twists, and once again creates compelling protagonists. You'll find Malka a fascinating puzzle and the book quick and entertaining. --Nona Vero
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Return to a universe where magic is shackled to repressive technology in a stirring adventure alive with the clash of swords and sorceries, fierce hates and fiercer loves . . .
Malka wants to be left alone. But the little girl with the big sword can't help but attract attention. Perhaps it is because of the secret she carries--a powerful secret about her own astonishing identity. But whatever the reason, however they find her, the magic-annihilating Enforcement is on her trail--and they will stop at nothing short of murder.
Taking refuge aboard android Roder Massim's spaceship, Malka finds herself among a crew of renegade witches. She trusts no one--least of all Roder. Yet she finds herself strangely drawn to him. Finally, marooned on a planet of untamed magic, with their enemies one step behind, there is only one chance left. The renegades must somehow harness enough magic to move an entire world--before Enforcement wipes it out altogether.
Only Malka has the power. But will she pay the terrifying price?
Customer Reviews:
Simply Amazing!.......2000-10-26
I love this author so much. I can only hope she'll write another book, and soon! The characters are funny and engaging, the writing fluid and imaginative... and overall, this book is just great!
Of Swords and Spells -- Read it..........2000-06-26
I remember reading this book a long time ago and falling in love with it. I can't really say what I liked most about it. What amazes me is how the author packed such a story into such a tiny book. Not that I'm complaining. If you're in a mood for a good, short fantasy with some interesting twists, this book and "Nameless Magery" would be what I'd reccomend. I liked how this book picked up where the other one left off, but with a different perspective. It's amazing how vastly different the tone of each book is just by looking at the same storyline through a different character's eyes. You'd have to read it to judge for yourself, but I think these two books were perfect examples of Sci-Fi/Fantasy. They were very good, honest.
nothing like her first book.......2000-04-22
This book was a big disappointment. I read the first book Nameless Magery which was excellent. In this book there were too many characters for good development to take place. There was no explanation about Malka's past or who she was until I was utterly disgusted with the book. It took three attempts at reading it for me to finish it.
So-So.......2000-04-01
I thought that NAMELESS MAGERY was delightful. It took all the cliches of fantasy--the princess with powers, having to save the world--and made me adore it, just through the sheer verve of the style. But this one seemed to succumb to the cliches. It took way too long to find out what Malka's problem was. The other characters were shadows, and the humor and verve were missing. The style swerved between tiresomely cryptic and flat. I will still try her next, though; I hope she rushed through this one, and that the third will show the dazzle of the first. I also endorse the other reviewers' recommendations of COURT DUEL but you really ought to read CROWN DUEL first.
Different Characters, Same Good Story.......2000-01-06
At first I was a little upset that the focus was not on Lisane, but as I read on I really came to like Malka and appreciate what she was going through. As the story advanced, you could see her change from a scared little "monkey" to a strong woman, just like Lisane in the first novel. I also liked how Ms. turner set up the story's timeline so it took place around the same time as the first one and how the characters got to meet one another. I can't wait for her next book!
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"Although Darkover was a world inhabited by humans as well as semi-humans, it was primarily forbidden ground to the Terran traders. Most of the planet's wild terrain was unexplored... and many of its peoples seclusive and secretive. But for Andrew Carr there was an attraction he could not evade. Darkover drew him. Darkover haunted him - and when his mapping plane crashed in unknown heights, Darkover prepared to destroy him. Until the planet's magic asserted itself - and his destiny began to unfold along lines predicted only by phantoms and wonder workers of the kind Terran science could never acknowledge. THE SPELL SWORD is a Darkover novel to stand with the great ones of the series."
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