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Title: The Fifth Sorceress (The Chronicles of Blood and Stone, Book 1) by Robert E. Newcomb ISBN: 0-345-44893-6 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 10 June, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99

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Average Customer Rating: 2.64 (115 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: Just not a good book
Comment: I really wanted to like this book. I love fantasy novels and I liked the idea of this one. But it's really quite horrible. It's poorly written, frankly boring in parts, and it's totally misogynistic.

Every female character in this book is an evil, ... torturer. The only one who has any good qualities is a cookie cutter angel (literally - she has white feathered wings) who he only meets, and saves of course, for five minutes before he supposedly "loves" her. Yet, despite this love, he easily leaves her behind even though he knows her to be suffering.

There are logic gaps repeatedly throughout this book so huge you could drive a truck through them. Each time one of these "huh?" moments appear the author presents a pat, stupid, nonsensical explanation. The author seems so smug it is as if he were saying "See, you thought I'd miss that, didn't you?" but he doesn't even notice that his own explanations only add to the problems.

The only reason I finished the book is that a part of me kept saying "Maybe it will get better." It never did. Just pass this one by. The only reason I even gave it one star is for being a fantasy novel. The story itself deserves none.

Rating: 3
Summary: Good
Comment: I was surprised when I saw this book's low rating and high number of vitriolic reviews. I thought it was pretty good. I'm not much of a fantasy reader; maybe that's what my problem is. I'll grant that the writing isn't especially good in the way of word choice, and there are some logic errors, but the story still pulled me in. I liked the characters and the story and I couldn't put the book down. That's good enough for me, redundant prose notwithstanding. As for the book's 'controversial' aspects, the violence and sex didn't bother me, and I loved the fact that the villains were women.

+5 stars for story, -2 stars for prose.

Rating: 1
Summary: One fo the Worst - Unimaginative story telling
Comment: This is one of the worse books I have read. I had all I could do to finish it. Great fantasy should seem real -- this seems like all contrived by an unskilled writer.

The heart of the problem is the main character, Tristan, who is weak, spineless and willful. His refusal to obey the Sr. Wizard Wigg is the plot contrivance used by the author to extend the story. Havina a weak central character is simply poor plotting and design.

You can foresee every plot incident along the way -- it screams outloud what will happen next. I honestly don't see how any reputable publisher could publish such trash. The only appealing character in the book is Wigg - the rest are boring, uninteresing stereotypes. The fantasy world constructed by the author is as trivial as his writing.

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