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    <body><![CDATA[Fantasy. There's this guy, and he has wings, and he's been...sold into slavery? And this prince buys him? I can't really remember. But the one guy totally has wings. And lots of man-angst.<br/><br/>My absolute biggest complaint about this book is that after hundreds of pages of foreplay, the princ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1908179">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting book, which has a very slashy master/slave set up. Amazingly, considering the extreme slashiness of them (at one point he is drinking from his fountain of joy), I was never sure if Carol Berg was actually aware of it. At times I was really expecting things to kick off between them. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5826299">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I <em>loved</em> this. I am shocked and delighted by how much I loved this. It’s an original world combined with all the pleasures of a really slashy bit of fanfic. There are slavefic and wingfic elements, and demons and destiny, and it all sounds really cheesy, but like really good fic, it transcends thes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1665497">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77026417">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading &quot;Flesh and Spirit&quot; and &quot;Breath and Bone&quot; by the same author, I decided Carol Berg was a genius of the English language and that I would read every single one of her books. The list is by no means short, considering also that each book is roughly 500 pages, but that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77026417">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47181133">
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd say the best reason to read this is for its characters.  The protagonist is Seyonne, a man who was once a magical-warrior prodigy and the shining star of his demon-hunting people before they got their butts kicked and he was captured on the battlefield, stripped of his magic, and sold into slave...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47181133">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42908438">
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this series from the start. It had an interesting character and some intriguing ideas and settings. While the cover put me off a bit, it wasn't too bad so long as I read it where others wouldn't catch me reading it. <br/><br/>The first book in this series was pretty good, it's just ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42908438">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="730210">
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think because I'd read the second of this trilogy first, I didn't enjoy this first one as much, b/c I had a good idea what was going to happen to the protagonist. Still incredibly well-written and worth reading. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this book (and the next two in the series) up on a whim from the local bookstore as a &quot;dinner read&quot;.  I was hooked enough that I stayed longer than I usually would at dinner.  I also took it to bed with me and stayed up way too late to finish it.<br/><br/>Gripping characters, in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55026326">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was bored and suffering from insomnia one night and picked this up to past the time. I started it at 10pm and did not put it down till I finished it a 7am...needless to say, I liked it very much. I twas all due not due to the plot...which while good was not too far off from most fantasy plots, but...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44128590">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3453390">
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    <body><![CDATA[Title in German: <br/>Tor der Verwandlung]]></body>
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    <review id="3301422">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jelenie]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite fantasy trilogy!]]></body>
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    <review id="37589786">
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  <date_added>Wed Nov 12 21:47:47 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh goodness, one of my fav's. This one and its 2 sequels. To tell its premise in brief, the main character is part of this one culture that has been overtaken and mostly enslaved by this one Empire. Our protagonist Seyonne is sold to be a slave to the prince Aleksander, who is a rather youngish self...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37589786">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Seyonne was once a magician charged with guarding humanity from demonic possession, but now he is slave to Prince Aleksander, the selfish, ill-tempered heir to the throne which murdered Seyonne's people. But when demons attempt to infiltrate the palace, Seyonne discovers that Aleksander is contains ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32636745">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Picked this up at Pike's Peak Writers' Conference for research and pleasure.  First book from a successful high fantasy author who made her connections at PPWC.<br/><br/>*** Minor Spoilers ***<br/><br/>I'd like to give it a 3.5, but GoodReads won't let me.<br/><br/>I was totally engrossed in t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21392573">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazon.co.uk Review<br/>Sixteen years of slavery have left Seyonne with little sense of who he is, or who he used to be; Carol Berg's Transformation is the story of how he gradually comes to know himself and becomes a player in the game of empires and kings.<br/><br/>Prince Aleksander is the heir...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18435767">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The theme of the book is the title of one of its sequels -  restoration. Seyonne is a slave who has lost his power and most of his will with it. Without revealing much, once he was a man of purpose, power and stature, but he has brutally cuto off that life and its attendant memories in order to be a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14592453">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Carol Berg knows how to write. Her prose is excellent, her characters are well fleshed and her plot situations are believable (believable in a fantasy setting that is.) Throughout the first half of the book you really feel for Seyonne's character and what he is going through as a slave, torn between...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8240803">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Transformation</em> was an amazing read.  Berg does a fantastic job creating the characters Seyonne and Aleksander.  The memorable parts of this book are probably the verbal exchanges between Prince Aleksander and his slave, Seyonne--amusing conversations that really build these two characters and stick ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4326331">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great story with excellent characterization, an interesting system of magic and beliefs, plus just the right amount of world building. It only has one major flaw that I could find - it flew by too fast! From page one I was feeling a sympathetic connection to Seyonne followed by a true dist...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37751088">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not bad at all.  I do like her writing style although her scene transitions can be a little abrupt; I caught myself going back a few times to check for a skipped page when a change occurred.  ]]></body>
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