Customer Reviews

Beyond Ragnarok (Renshai Chronicles)

5 star:		(11)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
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This trilogy holds itself against the original. The author builds on the characters she created in the first trilogy and takes them to levels of conflict that she could not have set up otherwise.

Good and evil? Let's try shades of both...her characters this time are young...full of life and of themselves. They learn about violence, love, and the true evil that normal men of power can accomplish...on top of that, they are forced to deal with a supernatural evil of unprecedented levels.

The badguy in this book will have you wanting to jump into the story, grab a sword, and take his head (sorry, reference to another good fantasy tale ;-) ).

Don't start with this book and its trilogy...start with "Last of the Renshai."

Overall this was a great book. It is full of deception and heroism. Some of the characters seem to act irrational sometimes, but this is how it would work in real life. The plot is defined and developed, and the characters have strong values which they usually stick. I also enjoyed it because I wasn't sure what was going to happen next. This book is definately a good read, but I would not put it in my top five.

(This book was great, don't get me wrong, but after this book definately read the Iron Tower Trilogy {The Dark Tide, Shadows of Doom, and The Darkest Day} by Dennis L. McKiernan. Especially if you liked LOR.)

I have followed the Renshai books since I picked up The Last of The Renshai two years ago. I still think that they are among the coolest books that I have ever read. I would have to rank them up with Jordan, Goodkind, and Anthony. The chronicles are no different; great action, characters, and emotion. I highly suggest reading this great book and every other book Mickey has written. I eagerly await the release of the third chronicle paperback!!!

I thought this, as well as the other novels in the series, were VERY well written. I have to say that the romantic "scenes" were on the mushy side. I don't know that there is a really good literary solution for this, it was just the one area in the trilogy that got on my nerves a bit. I still highly recomend the series.

Starting strong, *Beyond Ragnarok* holds great promise at the beginning, the seeds of an epic tale sown in the excitement and terror in the prologue. However, the work continues on to become a sloppy mess, brightened only by the powerful images of the characters and the cool concept of Law vs. Chaos. The pace is definitely too slow, and the language has a flowery, showy feel, as if Reichert is trying to impress her readers. Well, it doesn't work, because the formality of the words adds to the tedium of the plot, which splits off in a dozen directions and meanders away to pointless storytelling.

I am a big fantasy fan but there are only two people i think have earned the right to be called real fantasy authers and mickey zucker riechert is on of them. This is a great book!!!

This is the first book I've read by MZR and I'm proud to say that I'm a convert! I picked this up at a used bookstore because I was desperate to increase my library of REALLY GOOD fantasy novels. All the characters were very interesting and the pace of the story is just right. I'm pleased to say that I'm now HOOKED! I'll be looking forward to more of Mickey's Renshai series!

The book was excellent and I give it 6 stars. The characters had feeling and depth. I could not put it down!!! A must read. I cannot wait to buy the next book!

This book was great! But i was a little disapointed when Mitrian of Mar Lon (or the "old" characters) weren't in this book. But i realize it's necessary. It bothers me that they didn't tell about what happened to them in this book. I like the new charecters though. And the elves are funny! But another thing that REALLY annoyed me was that Reichert repeats herself over and over again. Like how every time Baltriane passes the paintings on the walls she always mentions that he takes no notice of the beautiful paintings or that it ceases to amaze him.

Mickey has actually been able to comprehend the nature of our gods-well mostly anyway.The epic is higly entertaining more so because she manage to blend the danish,german and norweigen languages into concepts used by the elves without destroying the rest of the story.I would have appreciated a deeper understanding of the characters personalities but it`s a good book anyway.If prince of demons is the end of the renshai chronicles it`s a pretty strange ending of a epic.