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Title: Revelation by Carol Berg ISBN: 0-451-45842-7 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 08 August, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (22 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Gripping Tale of Seyonne Continues
Comment: This story had tears welling in my eyes in so many places in the last eighth of the book. The talented Carol Berg has such talent in her words that she can put the reader right behind Seyonne's eyes as he lives through ungodly amounts of torment and dispair throughout the second installment of his story.
While this book was equally as engaging as the first, I had a little bit more trouble following all the intricacies of the plot this book had to offer. The problems and delimmas go all over the map and you may find your head spinning with how many different directions you're being taken at once... all while remaining steadfast at Seyonne's feet, waiting for him to tell you more.
For a while I was beginning to feel like the new tortures and torments the main character was continually put through were starting to get old.. but the feeling teetered on and off. I understand also that without all of them, the point would not have been put across so vibrantly. The stretched details were a necessary evil, you might say.
Besides feeling slightly as though too much time was spent wrapped up in the demon world, I was more impressed with Berg's ability to hold so many peices of a plot together, throw the reader in all directions, and then bringing him/her back to a steady, pleasant landing in the end, leaving the reader breathless. I'm thuroughly impressed by her superb talent in story-telling. Congratulations to Carol Berg.
Rating: 5
Summary: Stunning Sequel to Transformation!
Comment: Seyonne was enslaved by the Derzhi for 16 long years. He forced himself to live a day at a time and to never look past the present. But Prince Aleksander, his master, freed him and, wonder of wonders, Seyonne had reclaimed his magic and was free to live among his people, the Ezzarians, once more. Seyonne was overjoyed to return to his wife and his people. He immediately took up his duties as a Warden again and worked tirelessly for two years to force demons out of innocent human souls. The Ezzarians still whispered that he was tainted by his captivity, but Seyonne refused to let it matter, even as he refused to worry about Fiona, his babysitter who followed him everywhere he went, searching for signs of corruption. When Seyonne let a demon go free, Fiona had the sign that she was looking for. Then Seyonne discovered that his wife had left his son out to die and he had never even seen the baby. The Ezzarian Council tried to force Seyonne to give up his magic and to earn his right to work as a Warden again, but Seyonne refused to enter this different kind of slavery and set off to find his son.
Seyonne discovered Brand, a demon-joined Ezzarian who was attacking the Derzhi and undermining Aleksander's rule. The more Seyonne learned of Brand, the more he liked him, but Aleksander was so important to the future of their world and Seyonne couldn't bear to see two of his best friends fighting each other. Seyonne learned that there were others like Brand who were born demon joined, like Seyonne's own son, and they had different powers - in some way greater powers - than the Ezzarians. Seyonne started to question all that he knew of Ezzarian history and came to the stunning conclusion that his people were meant to be demon joined - the demons were a part of them! But what had happened and how? The only place that Seyonne could think to go and look for answers was into the demon realm itself...
Revelation takes place two years after the end of Transformation and it was nothing like what I thought it would be. When we left Seyonne in Transformation he was picking up the old threads of his life and I thought that he would have a much longer time to be happy. But Seyonne is a great hero and always takes the path he should - even when others try to discourage him and make it difficult. Seyonne suffered greatly in this book and it was hard to see him walk into agony again, but the answers that come from this book were startling and took the story of Seyonne and Aleksander to a whole new level. Berg's fantasy world is never static, the rules are always changing and so the reader will always be surprised. This was an absolutely superb book with stunning characters. A must read for any fantasy lover!
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing
Comment: This has got to be some of the best writing I've seen in quite a while. Berg is a masterful writer. The worlds and people created are so vivid and strong. Each and every character is unique. Their attitudes, demeander, and how they handle situations are completely different from others. Plus they hold their character throughout the entire story--series. I've read so many novels where every character was a carbon copy of how the arthur feels and sees the world. Not so with Berg's novel. There are characters with major flaws, and yet the reader can't help but relate to them. What is most compelling is that not everything works out to the main characters advantage. Bad things happen and they happen in this book.
In the second installment of this series, Seyonnne's life is not perfect in his homeland of Ezzaria. Despite all he has gone through in fighting and defeating the Deamons in the first novel, Transformation, many of his people do not trust him. He is now their only Warden, until he has completed training the younger boys, and fights sometimes even two to three battles a day. Instead of his wife, Ysanne, acting as Aife in these battles, the elders have chosen another, Fiona, as his Aife. Only Fiona is really there to watch and monitor Seyonne to make sure he is not contaminated.
When Seyonne discovers a Demon, who is not evil, in a body and decides to not destroy or remove him, Fiona is quick to report this to the elders and Seyonne finds himself banned from Ezzaria. This is not the end, of course, but only the beginning. Seyonne has his own problems to solve and takes on many for friends. He has his abandon son (yes, son) to find, his long time friend and once master has problems in the kingdom Seyonne vows to help with, and we meet a new character, Blaise who's very life depends on what Seyonne can discover in the world of demons.
You will find it hard to put this novel down and if you are like me, will find yourself caught up in the lives of the characters. I admit, I even cried at some points.
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