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    <body><![CDATA[The Crown of Stars series is well-thought out and obviously well-planned. It's epic in scope and it's got a lot of texture. There are many complex characters who we follow in parallel, as in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time. Some of them are very likable, and there are some really excellent villains (e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51021543">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I wasn't sure I'd like this book or this series, but found myself pleasantly surprised and totally engrossed. Kate Elliott creates a world that may seem familiar to students of history but which holds many strange and fantastic differences. The Eika are one of the most unique and best-described race...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40953731">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's okay.  This is your basic sprawling fantasy story that happens to be set in a world where there is some war and some invasion but without the single hero that kills everything and wins the lady.  No, things are a tad more complicated than that.  However, this story does fall to some of the most...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22309478">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm loving the Jaran series but was not as impressed by the start to this series.<br/><br/>I'm anti dream sequence, which is part of my frustration.<br/><br/>But mostly it just feels like this book is all description. I find how the characters interact with their religion pretty interesting, but I c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75251833">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've had this book since it came out, I think -- about ten years now?  I bought it as a filler for my beloved Tamora Pierce books (I'd just finished all of them and wanted more of the same genre), but got sidetracked by everything else that I just never read this.<br/><br/>I had a difficult time g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7603629">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I LOVED this series!  What a rich, compelling world Elliott creates.  I really got involved with the characters and found the plot exciting and taut. Highly recommended.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Unabridged dog walking mp3<br/><br/>Not the very best audio quality - quite a lot of background rumble and it sounds as if it's being read from under a pile of flax homespun. <br/><br/>Exciting though and the religion aspect is really well thought out - so close to the evolution from pagan to Ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67579586">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I started reading this series a while ago, but never got to finish it.<br/>I enjoyed it so much that I am starting from the beginning so I can follow the story the whole way through.<br/>I will update my 'review' once I have finished it.  (it's great so far)<br/>*UPDATE*<br/>Yes, it was as good ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5342341">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Will not write a reeview because the ending was so lousy that I have no mood to even think about the series.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[the series starts off good, but by book 5 or so she just has too much plot to keep up with.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I might have been too young when I first read these..]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A very good (albeit very long) series.  If you like George RR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series, you will like this one as well.  They are very similar in many ways - lots of political intrigue, all the characters have their virtues and their flaws, and bad things happen to everybody, even the he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2851625">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the first half of this and was nearly comatose. I skimmed the second half in about 20 minutes. It improved but not much. Maybe in the 6 sequels there are interesting characters, the author stays awake while writing it, and interesting things happen...? One can only hope the series doesn't get...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56759763">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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