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    <body><![CDATA[This was a great addition to the Homecoming Saga--a story full of fascinating, well-developed characters. And I enjoyed the continuation of the epic story.<br/><br/>However, I got the feeling that he just wanted to get done and didn't give it all he had the last fourth of the book. He summed up a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52007992">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I still enjoy the series, but once again there were moments in this book that felt weird to me because it is a scripture story that I grew up with. Most of the time I don't think about the correlation between the two, but there were moments where I felt it was being flung in my face. <br/><br/>I g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45006453">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am sure this one would have been good.... but I just didn't really like that there were a bunch of stale years that occurred and all of a sudden *BAM!* here's the children. I mean, whatever man. Not cool. Didn't really get far before I dropped this one.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Reread 12-15-09. Remembered past favorite moments and loved them just as much this time around -- indeed couldn't wait to keep reading to get to them. The section that stands out as now meaning <em>so</em> much more to me now than it did then is the Shedemei/Zdorab proposal scene. I liked and was intrigued b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12038631">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not sure what happened with this volume of OSC's HOMECOMING saga. Somewhere along the line I completely lost interest in the story. I might end up skimming the last few chapters before picking up Volume Four.<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I felt that this was a marked improvement from the last book in this series (&quot;the Call of Earth&quot;).  Things finally began picking up, there was a fair amount of character development, and there was a good sense that the real action was finally beginning. (the first 2 books almost felt like ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26000242">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This has to be one of my favorite books in the whole world.  It's the mid book in a truly wonderful series.  While this series is closely tied to the book of Mormon, I didn't know that the first several times I read it.  The characters in the story are intense and real.  The love and ties that bind ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/135087">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Unfortunately, this third installment in a promising series looses steam and gains the same preachy feel that Card's series have a tendency to take on in the later books.  But, hey, if you like a good dose of faith in god with your science fiction, go for it. ]]></body>
    
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