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    <body><![CDATA[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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41821749">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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.  <br/><br/>However, I think the &quot;mage heat&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42720959">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A 4'10&quot; 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, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53916751">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Refreshing, Sensual Take On The Heavenly Host</strong><br/><br/>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 a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72416954">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39024010">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[No one thought the apocalypse would be like this. The world didn't end. And the appearance of seraphs heralded three plagues and a devastating war between the forces of good and evil. Over a hundred years later, the earth has plunged into an ice age, and seraphs and demons fight a never-ending battl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38777286">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Whole review is available at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://sf-fantasy-books.blogspot.com/2008/06/faith-hunter-bloodring-book-review.html">Realms of Speculatife Fiction</a><br/><br/>Excerpt from the review:<br/><em>Remember my review of &quot;Twilight&quot; by Stephenie Meyer? In short, &quot;Twilight&quot; is a book written with great style but at the same time being completely plotless. While reading &quot;Blo...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25764166">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Centers around Thorn, a neomage who gets her powers from stone, who is hidden among humans in a post-apocolyptic world. Seraphs have decended upon the world and destroyed most of civilization, followed by war against dark beings. Now the survivors aren't sure of what the Divine Powers expect or what...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25266763">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[what if the Apocalypse (the big-A one, from the bible) came, Angels walked the Earth, and...the word just kept on?<br/><br/>I was initially leary on this one - with the cover showing an angl, with the author's name...I was worried this was going to be something out of the 'Left Behind' genre. Its ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9143966">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When reading this book, I kept thinking &quot;Is this one of those books where you can send in your self-written story and they'll bind it for you?&quot;  You know the kind, it doesn't matter was junk you have on the page, some company out there will bind it in hardcover for you for a chunk of chang...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5726011">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just could not get into this book at all. I struggled to get over the main character struggling with being in heat all the time, the other characters moved in and out of the story but never seem to pull the story along. <br/>It was also really annoying about how many times I had to told about her...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49951117">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Faith Hunter’s Bloodring turned out to be a good enough read that I have moved on to read the second book in the series, Seraphs; which opened up with the old saying, no good deed goes unpunished as the heroine is put on trial. Still containing too many neo-mage in heat references and scenes, Sera...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20937463">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The setting for this series is an interesting blend of fantasy, apocalyptic Christian theology and a little bit of sci-fi. It's  105 years after the apocalypse and there's still some technology from our time. Global warming is in full effect.<br/><br/>Hunter did a good job using religious mytholog...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5649788">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This has become a new favorite.<br/>It is a different take on the post apocalyptic world. Thorn is a strong character. I love the way the characters come into the picture in flow together making one story. I am totally hooked to see what this neomage will do and what happens to all the other charact...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78746479">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As others have noted the writing falters in places, but the very imaginative setting and world building made up for it, for me.  It does have strong romantic elements which I liked, being a reader of romances, cheesy and otherwise.  But, I think the book is more fantasy than romance.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a really nifty concept in post-apocalyptic fiction. That's the thing that keeps me going, even if there are some draggy points,that it's such a novel idea.  Ms. Hunter earns megapoints for originality. Liked it enough to immediately go out and get the next in the series. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting take on &quot;what if&quot; the world didn't end like we all thought it would be. It has dark fantasy, a slight element of steampunk and some romantic subplots all rolled into one for a different sort of read on magic and religion.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting story definitely fantasy. I like the way this book is written and how they describe her character. She's not overly beautiful or special but for this story she's important to the people around her]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[At last, some real unresolved sexual tension. And it was DELICIOUS. <br/><br/>Thorn, the mage main character, was believable.  As was her supporting cast of humans, hellspawn, and some new 'types' I hadn't seen before.  <br/><br/>Faith Hunter created a magic system for this book and didn't hide ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30337063">more...</a>]]></body>
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