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Title: Joust by Mercedes Lackey ISBN: 0-7564-0122-4 Publisher: DAW Books Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.06 (33 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Repetitive
Comment: As the first book I've read by Mercedes Lackey, I'm not too impressed. First, as some others mentioned, the action is incredibly slow with way too much description bogging it down. Some of it would actually be interesting if the author didn't launch every five paragraphs into a comparison to Vetch's former life with Khefti. Most readers understand after the first few pages that Khefti is the stereotypical cruel master. Enough said.
I enjoyed a few of the moments when the book showed some of the character's memories of his family, but then it would simply lapse back into Khefti, who, after ten pages, seemed rather trivial. Throughout the book I felt that the main character should just get over it and MOVE ON. The idea of the dragons is interesting, but it could be done with less cliche and in about 50 less pages.
Rating: 1
Summary: A weak book
Comment: This is a disappointing product by Lackey who has written some interesting books in the past. It is very slow, as if she has decided to write a five book series and does not want to put too much into any one book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Liked it but very close to Jane Yolan's Dragons Blood
Comment: I enjoyed the story very much but I'm concerned by how closely it paralles Yolan's Dragon's blood. I'm sure it wasn't deliberate and I look forward to a sequel. I didn't see much comparison with McCaffrey's dragons at all. The similarities between this one and Dragon's blood are basically that a bond servent / slave steals a dragons egg and raises it to adulthood to gain his freedom. In Dragons Blood the dragons are used for arena fighting and in Joust they are used for airial combat in a war.
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Title: Exile's Valor: A Novel of Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey ISBN: 0756402069 Publisher: DAW Books Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Exile's Honor: A Novel of Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey ISBN: 0756401135 Publisher: DAW Books Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Sun In Glory (A Valdemar Anthology) by Mercedes Lackey ISBN: 0756401666 Publisher: DAW Books Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Outstretched Shadow (The Obsidian Trilogy, Book 1) by Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory ISBN: 0765302195 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 08 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Dragon's Kin by Anne McCaffrey, Todd McCaffrey ISBN: 0345461983 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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