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Jan 08, 2009

Amy rated it:

Faith Hunter imagines a post-Apocalyptic world filled with seraphs, Dark beings, and mages (as well as ordinary humans). Thorn St. Croix is an unlicensed mage living amongst the humans in secret in the town of Mineral City in what used to be North or South Carolin. Her ex-husband, Lucas Stanhope, is kidnapped in the middle of the night, and this event sets off a series of events that leads Thorn to believe that something Dark and dangerous is massing an army in the mountain behind the town. As T More...

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Jan 11, 2009

Jensownzoo rated it:

I liked the characterizations and interactions and the pacing (kept reading to find out what happened next). An interesting take on revelation/end of the world with some suggestions that the human race is being hoodwinked about the whole deal.

However, I think the "mage heat" device could have been lifted out of the story en toro and not made much of a difference in the story...indicating dead weight (and something more suited to a cheesy romance novel anyway). Maybe a m More...

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Aug 07, 2008

Kati rated it:

This book turned out to be better than I thought. At first, I just couldn't get into it - too much exposition for my liking. But even though there was something off about the story telling, I really liked the characters, especially the seraphs fascinated me.

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Jul 29, 2010

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I would have given this 3 1/2 stars, but Goodreads doesn't do that. I will try to read the next two books in the series, as sometimes the next one gets better. Mostly there is not enough action and the hook wasn't there in the beginning as should be. But the book has potential, so I will read the others.

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Sep 28, 2011

Rhianon rated it:

A 4'10" female riding a Fresian? A stallion, no less? Granted, they aren't hot-blooded but I'm still struggling with the practicality of that combination. And likewise, someone else riding a Clydesdale. *snorts* Don't get me wrong, it's done. But it is far from practical, far from comfortable, especially traveling long distances. It's like straddling an oil drum.

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Aug 04, 2011

Amanda rated it:

Bloodring starts in the middle of everything. While this tends to be a good formula for most novels, it didn't quite work as well here. I had to spend much of the first half of the novel trying to figure out what was going on and what the mechanics of the world were. The plot was also excruciating slow and I found myself frequently getting lost between what was going on and what the rules of the world are -not to mention what exists in it. Finally, about half way through the plot started to get More...

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Apr 20, 2011

Dharma rated it:

Let me just say how shocked I am that I didn't like this book. I love Faith Hunter's Jane Yellowrock series. But I really, really didn't like Bloodring. I listened through the whole audiobook, convinced that eventually I'd care for the heroine, care for the plot, but I didn't. It's just too much - too post-apocalyptic/new ice-age, too high fantasy, too foreign, too alien. We have new mages, and half-breeds, and Sarephs, and demon spawn, and none of them are human, but somehow the combinatio More...

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Mar 13, 2011

Rebecca rated it:

Rogue Mage series (Book 1) | So if the Mercy Thompson/Rachel Morgan books are your fair-to-middling examples of a well-written urban fantasy series, these Rogue Mage books have to be the ugly red-headed stepchildren. Because they're not well-written. At all. But, you know, it's pretty much my own fault. With an authorial pseudonym like 'Faith Hunter' I should have realized what I was getting myself into. Anyway, Blood Ring takes place in a post-apocalyptic small-town of what's left of America, a More...

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Feb 09, 2011

Kraig rated it:

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Bloodring: A Rouge Mage Novel is the first in a series of three novels. Thorn St. Croix is a "neomage" a creation caused in a post apocalyptic world where an ice age has come over the earth from a war between seraphs bringing God's wrath upon humanity and war happening with the darkness/devil spawns and humans.

Seraphs formed a new government and insinuated themselves into everyday life. They made the new law for humanity on this Ice age developed.
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Apr 07, 2010

drey rated it:

I picked up Bloodring after reading Faith's Jane Yellowrock books, Skinwalker and Blood Cross. Apparently I can't get enough Faith... =)

I like Thorn. She is strong, powerful, and on the lam. Well, in hiding, anyway, since she's been in the same place for 10 years now... Then her ex-husband goes missing, and the cops come knocking on her door. To further complicate things (because she really really REALLY needs it complicated), Thorn finds a stash of gemstone that talks to her... And sh More...

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Dec 30, 2009

Marianna rated it:

Not bad. I would give it 3 and 1/2 stars or 6 out of 10. I did get tired of hearing about Thorn going into (mage) heat. But I suppose the author was going somewhere with that. I would have appreciated more depth in Thadd if he is going to be a love interest. More depth in all the characters would have been nice, but nonetheless I did like the characters (mostly). The setting was supposed to be post-apocalyptic and I just did not get that vibe of a world completely changed by carnage, etc etc. Al More...

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Feb 18, 2011

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Jul 28, 2010

Kt from A Book Obsession.. rated it:

Bloodring is told from the perspective of Thorn St. Croix. Thorn is a stone mage, the only one of her kind who is not confined to a mage community called Enclave. On the run, she must keep her identity a secret for fear of her life. If she is found by the Seraphs, who are angel-like beings, she will be sent back to the enclave where she faces certain insanity for she has a "gift" of mind reading her own kind, and thousands of minds get a little noisy. However, if she is discovered by t More...

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Apr 23, 2010

Darcy rated it:

This is a hard book for me to review due to how I felt about the book.

What I really liked about the book was Thorn, her friends, and her workshop. The relationships between all of these people were fun to read and you can really tell they are more than friends, more like family. I also liked the scenes where they were working in the shop, the laughing and teasing was fun along with seeing how they worked with the materials.

What I had a hard time with was the world tha More...

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Mar 28, 2011

Megan rated it:

Wasn't sure what to expect from this book but I really enjoyed it. I wondered if a book about angels (seraphs) would end up being a neo-christian/get ready for the rapture kind of story - but nothing could be further from the truth.

The premise of this story is actually quite fascinating, and I think unique. A true post-apocalytic world, after the seraphs unleashed plagues and destroyed the bulk of humanity, a race of souless (but I doubt that) neomages tha control stone, metal, ea More...

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Jan 06, 2010

Doranna rated it:

What a fascinating book--a complex, unique world, and it contains characters with a lot of heart. The most intriguing thing to me is that it contains facets that I personally wouldn't/couldn't have ever come up with. It just goes places that my mind doesn't, and I love that. It came together into a true discovery of reading, as well as containing the character journeys that are so important to me.

Had it not been in first person, I think I would have given it a five-star rating. B More...

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May 26, 2010

Tricia rated it:

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Apr 17, 2011

Rach3975 rated it:

I finished this book not sure if I was going to continue with the trilogy. I like the characters and am curious about Thorn's past, especially what happened to her sister (a minor point so far, but I can't help but think it's significant). I'd love to know how things turn out for Thorn's former step-daughter and some of her friends. But there were too many battles and long incantations that I didn't give my full attention to and too many things that I thought needed an up-front explanation inste More...

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Jan 18, 2010

At rated it:

Bloodring is about a neomage named Thron St. Croix. Thorn lives in a post apacalyptic world with seraphs and devil spawn. Thorn is a neomage trying to pass as human in order to save her ex-husband Lucas. Thorn needs to use her powers to help find him. Will she risk her life to save a man she hates, or will she leave him to die?
I feel i connect to Thorn the most. Thorn may hate one person but she still cares for them. I feel his way about some people. They used to be my friend but they say More...

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Apr 06, 2010

Becky rated it:

I really want to give it a 3.5. The more I dwell on this book, the more I wonder if part of my frustration is that I haven't finished the series. I enjoyed most of the character development, I felt they were real. It was a very interesting take on post apocalyptic earth, and what would happen. Having a religious background I recognized the scripture used in the conjuring and where most of the characters would have come from. I felt Thorn got a little whiny in the middle. For someone with s More...

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Jan 09, 2012

Hilary rated it:

Faith Hunter describes a post-Apocalyptic Ice Age peopled with seraphs, creatures of Darkness, mages, and humans. Thorn is an unlicensed and largely untrained stone mage secretly living in the rural town of Mineral City. When Lucas Stanhope (her ex-husband) is kidnapped, it triggers event that lead Thorn to speculate that Mineral is the focus of a Dark army uprising. As Thorn attempts to discover why the Stanhope family is being targeted for extinction, she comes progressively closer to blowing More...

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Mar 19, 2011

Fastidious rated it:

Post apocalyptic setting populated by seraph/angels (unrelated to god), mages and humans. Great concept, but plot sometimes too muddled. And main character too isolated for my tastes- she has no allies she can truly count on, for reasons beyond her control. I love vigilantes, but she just is entirely too screwed in her predicament. It's disheartening. Circumstances which allow for little hope for our protagonists success, are worsened by too many unanswered questions. Also, the climax, which sho More...

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Mar 13, 2011

Dana rated it:

This was a nice change and I am looking forward to reading the entire series. I tend to avoid the more 'religiously' based post-apocolyptic/dystopian reads as they tend to have a pendantic flavor. Not so here and I appreciate it. As opposed to feeling that I was being coddled by fiction in order to have Christianity served up to me, I found this very informative and began to enjoy the biblical references as much as the interpersonal stories. I felt, as other do, that the mage-heat piece was a bi More...

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Aug 19, 2011

Amanda rated it:

Well, I've finally finished this. I was really into it in the beginning, then my interest waned slightly, then I got into it again, and by the end I was kind of lost. It seems weird to say it about an UF book, but at times I felt like the book was really heavy and I found my mind wandering.

However, I did enjoy it. The whole post-ap thing is intriguing to me, and I liked her description of the Seraphim. I wish they got a little more page-time, because they were definitely one of the mo More...

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Mar 20, 2011

Yasmeen rated it:

First I must say I enjoyed this view on a futuristic/post apocalyptic world, though mostly I tend to avoid stories with angels or religious speculation. I found the writing over descriptive in places which I found distracting. The world was complicated and a little disjointed - it didn't help that there was little or no explanations about why certain things were possible or the motivations of the characters. I was disappointed that we didn't learn more about the supporting characters some of More...

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Jan 28, 2011

Betty rated it:

The first part of the book made the main character seem smart and together, but as the book progresses she just gets dumber and dumber. Also nothing is really resolved. I understand that there is a larger plot that is not going to be resolved in this book but you never find out if the person who has been kidnapped survives. Or if the town is okay or if shes going to live there after all of the action happens. I found it very unsatisfying. Also I got very tired of the biblical references. It was More...

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Oct 06, 2009

Patrick rated it:

Refreshing, Sensual Take On The Heavenly Host

Overall, Hunter has created a fascinating interpretation of angelic mythology, intertwined with the magic-system of her dystopian world. What held me back from enjoying it to the fullest, though, were the repetive use of certain phrases and almost cut-and-paste scene descriptions (the descriptions of the protagonist's magic rituals, especially). Also, not that it's a terrible thing, but is there a check-list somewhere that requires curre More...

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Dec 01, 2008

Amy rated it:

Fun, a little flawed, but the premise is fascinating enough that I'm moving on to the 2nd book Seraphs. The writing is a little clunky and there's way too much detail on which stone is used in which incantation with just so much salt...you get the idea. But Hunter's conception of a post-apocalypse world (and I mean archangels, seraphs, demons, plagues and the whole nine yards from the book of Revelations) pulled me in anyway and I like the scrappy heroine trying to survive as an unlicensed and More...

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Jun 19, 2011

Dan rated it:

Angels and devils show up on Earth, and neither group likes humans particularly. Was doing well for a while, but then it got all reciting-scripture-y and interpreting-the-book-of-revelations-literally-y. The main character's secret plan for solving the devil-infestation problem turns out to be to beg the angels for help and hope they don't kill her.

Left big chunks of plot unresolved at the end; it's unclear if this is an "I'll leave that for the sequel" thing or an "I More...

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Nov 24, 2011

Cheryl rated it:

The Rogue Mage series by Faith Hunter is set in a post-apocalyptic world, some generations after Seraphs revealed themselves to the world and joined forces with humans to battle demons. Magic is unleashed upon the world when the offspring of Seraphs & humans come of age; these "mages" have the ability to cast spells, create amulets & wards. Because of their powers, they are kept in enclaves and strictly monitored. The heroine of the series, Thorn St. Croix, is a rogue mage, living a More...

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