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Title: Magic Time by Marc Scott Zicree, Barbara Hambly ISBN: 0-06-105068-7 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 27 November, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.46 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Very enjoyable, but not finished, yet.
Comment: As always, I thoroughly enjoy anything Barbara Hambly publishes. This particular book starts off in "sound-bites," bringing in all the characters in a somewhat fragmented fashion. I make allowances, as Ms. Hambly did not write this book alone and it definately has the "taste" of another hand, Marc Scott Zicree, in the mix. It hasn't the usual character development one tends to expect from Ms. Hambly, and something more along the lines of pacing one would see in a televsion program. However, I was very pleased that not all the characters gave in to their "darkest desires" and are being re-shaped into finer beings then as they began. It is obviously not a complete story, since we know that Cal is preparing to track down his missing sister Tina, (the damsel in distress), and needs to realize his relationship with Colleen, (the experienced right hand, Xena-type). I believe there is room to continue to develop Agent Shango, as well. This is a very good beginning of a "Good versus Evil," (or perhaps, Good versus Bad, Thoughtless Government), story. I eagerly await the next installment.
Rating: 2
Summary: Magic Time
Comment: This book is initially exciting, perhaps buoyed by Hambly's writing skill. But it quickly becomes a sort of cut-rate, bad comic book cross between Stephen King's The Stand and Sean Stewart's Galveston. Something happens -- we don't get the intellectual satisfaction of learning exactly what -- in a top secret government research facility. Technology stops working, and some people metamorphose. Two foci of presumably destructive power appear -- a rather confusing plot point -- and our questing band of heroes must tackle the first one.
There are too many characters for the modest length of the book, and most are not well drawn. The cliched imagery verges on the ridiculous. It really is a comic book -- one person appears to be changing into Catwoman. The plot is fast-moving but shallow and unbelievable. While the basic idea is an interesting one, the book never gets off the ground. It comes across as imitative, lacking themes of its own.
Rating: 1
Summary: Waste of time
Comment: Warning - read only if you have a few days you want to waste reading disjointed snatches of a re-telling of The Stand. Understand my anger when I tell you I WAS NOT AWARE THIS WAS THE FIRST BOOK OF A TRIOLOGY when I purchased it. By the end - I cared about none of the people and had absolutely no idea what the source/project was and what exactly was done by whom. Furthermore, I don't care enough to read the other books. I love science fiction - love supernatural - this was just plain boring.
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Title: Magic Time: Angelfire by Marc Scott Zicree, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff ISBN: 0061050695 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 17 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Sisters of the Raven by Barbara Hambly ISBN: 0446677043 Publisher: Aspect Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Song of the Beast by Carol Berg ISBN: 0451459237 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: First Rider's Call (Green Rider, Book 2) by Kristen Britain ISBN: 0756402093 Publisher: DAW Books Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Sunshine by Robin McKinley ISBN: 0425191788 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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