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Title: The Feline Wizard (Wizard in Rhyme) by Christopher Stasheff ISBN: 0-345-39245-0 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 06 June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.73 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: In need of better proof-reading, but still a good read
Comment: Continuing the "Wizard in Rhyme" adventures of the Lord High Wizard of Merovence and his friends and family, this volume pairs our hero with a young, female apprentice (with the self-protective ability to transform into a cat and a difficulty coming up with endings for her spells) in order to retrieve his children from a vile kidnapper. Like all the novels in this series, Stasheff does a wonderful job of combining medieval myths and legends with lively, likable characters. However, the story is marred by errors in proof-reading (changing the names of characters or cities back and forth, often several times within a few pages, where paragraphs from earlier drafts with different names seem to have been incorporated without correction). Enjoy the story, but beware those editing mistakes.
Rating: 2
Summary: I'm not to win any Friends here
Comment: Firstly, please let me say that I am a fan of Stasheff's work, and count some of it among the best written and most enjoyable books I have encountered.
I have only one criticism, and that relates to Stasheff's ongoing series - he keeps turning them out long after he has run out of anything fresh to say. This is the case with the Feline Wizard.
The early books in the Wizard in Rhyme series were fresh, well characterised, well plotted, with reasonably consistant internal logic. All in all, they developed a believable world with an interesting and likable cast of characters.
For the last three books in this series, this trend has weakened to the point where - for a series reader - the series is no longer viable.
Errors in the series internal logic and premise have grown. Matthew Mantrell and friends are frankly tired - with no real effort at character growth or development.
Frankly, at this point the plot is banal. What started out as a reasonably fresh series, has finally degenerated into a piece of mass market pablum.
I can only assume that Stasheff is as tired of it as I am.
I cannot recommend this book, I cannot recommend the two immediately prior to it in the series. I very heartedly recommend the first three as excellent reads.
Please don't judge the series or the author by this book - both are capable of SO MUCH BETTER.
Rating: 3
Summary: Another Good One!
Comment: THE FELINE WIZARD is one of the latest, the eighth I do believe, in C. Stasheff's the Wizard in Rhyme series and it doesn't disappoint. The secret to keeping a storyline fresh and interesting over an extended number of volumes can be tricky but Stasheff had demonstrated that he has the knack. One such trick is to change the focus or main character of the story while still keeping the same "universe" that has been built up over the past few years. In FELINE WIZARD Balkis, Matt's former apprentice and now princess of Maracanda is the main protagonist having been kidnapped and transported far away from home much to the dismay of the ... Kala Nag who wanted to keep her as far away as possible from "the Other." As with most fairy tales you can guess where the winds of fate took her!
FELINE WIZARD doesn't have the power, originality or freshness of HER MAJESTY'S WIZARD or THE OATHBOUND WIZARD but what would you expect? In all it's a nice, pleasant read filled with action, suspense and romance, a pretty good combination if you ask me.
I'd RECOMMEND it, especially for those who have been following Matt Mantrell for the past few years.
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Title: The Haunted Wizard (Wizard in Rhyme) by Christopher Stasheff ISBN: 0345392485 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: My Son, the Wizard (Wizard in Rhyme) by Christopher Stasheff ISBN: 0345424808 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Crusading Wizard (Wizard in Rhyme) by Christopher Stasheff ISBN: 0345392469 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 29 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Secular Wizard (Wizard in Rhyme) by Christopher Stasheff ISBN: 0345388542 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Witch Doctor (Wizard in Rhyme, Book 3) by Christopher Stasheff ISBN: 0345388518 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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