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  <title><![CDATA[The Silver Gryphon (Valdemar: Mage Wars, #3)]]></title>
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  <default_description>The final installment in the series set in the fantasy world of   Valdemar follows the children of the Black Gryphon and Amberdrake the   Healer as they lead an elite force against a mysterious terror lurking   in the rain forest. Reprint.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1996</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mercedes Lackey]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Sep 22 09:46:22 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 25 07:25:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this when I was little and remember enjoying it.  I was, at the time, in the midst of a serious Lackey-loving phase, so that may have carried some influence.  However, I re-read the book recently and was not impressed.  I mean, nothing happens.  At least, nothing of any import.  The offspring...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72118141">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 28 12:52:32 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 28 12:53:16 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lackey is one of my favorite authors ever!  I started reading her in 8th grade but I will still pull out her books to reread them.   Her character building is really her main strength – you want to meet her characters – which is probably why I always reach for her books as a pick-me-up, it’s l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13848565">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Dec 18 15:20:58 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 18 15:28:18 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this when I was eleven. I thought it was so scary that I fell asleep with the light on while reading it at three in the morning. It was so good, and kept me on my toes. Unlike other 'scary' books, it wasn't gory or so psychological as to be ridiculous. I loved it.]]></body>
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    <review id="74601684">
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember waaay back in grade school when a classmate of mine let me borrow his copy of this. I devoured this book and all others that Mercedes Lackey wrote that i could get my hands on. I really enjoy her works though i don't see her books on display often]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone who mindlessly collects Mercedes Lackey books]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Oct 12 05:44:41 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 12 05:48:55 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ah Mercedes Lackey, the queen of angsty pulp-fiction-esque fantasy...<br/><br/>I wouldn't say this book was any worse than any of her previous books (that being said, I do own about eleven of them...), but a huge let down after the previous two in the series. Usually trilogies come to a stunning c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35099424">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="48951479">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kelly]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this story. I think Mercedes needs to write a 4th book about Skans other son.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48951479]]></url>
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    <review id="63857114">
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 17 19:46:14 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jul 17 19:46:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[its kinda boring.  blah]]></body>
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    <review id="10124164">
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    <name><![CDATA[Rachel]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Dec 07 21:22:27 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Apr 11 13:58:42 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just reread this book.  This trilogy is probably one of Mercedes Lackey's weakest.  The first book was very powerful, the second less so, and the third is almost tacked on as a &quot;the publisher made me do a trilogy&quot; kind of thing.  This &quot;trilogy&quot; is barely a trilogy at all.  It i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10124164">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Aug 14 06:11:07 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 15 08:12:47 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the third book of the trilogy that covers the Mage Wars chronologically at the beginning of the Valdemar series. Not as good as the first two in this trilogy, but still interesting because it follows the offspring of the main characters in the previous books.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30117732]]></url>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, but nothing special.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[so many to choose]]></body>
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