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Echo of Eternity (Shadowleague)

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I liked this book. This is the best out of the three. Prehaps is it beacsue she had somewhere to go and an end. All of the qestions are wrapped up, all of the answers are given. The ending is a many segmented thing, and I guessed at a coupel parts of it because they were rather obvious.

My only problems lay in the fact that it is incredably neat. Everything is answered, resolved, and everyone is happy. Many charaters have made a hundred and eighty degree turn from what they first where.

But I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the answers, the resolutions, and the ending. Buy the series and read it. Read them one after another and you will be pleased.

Like the first two novels in the series, Maggie Furey's conclusion to the Shadowleague trilogy, "Echo of Eternity" is a non stop action packed fantasy following multiple storylines as various groups to fix and survive the destruction of their carefully constructed artificial world.

As far as having all the correct elements of a fantasy book this checks out. And it's not really a bad book. Only it seems to have been written by a totally different person then the first two. Either that or the author totally forgot details from the first two books, making this book look incredibly sloppy.

I won't go into the elements because if you read the first two I'm sure you'll want to finish, but to those looking to start this series, head my warning. This series as a whole is inconsistent, overly sentimental, more than slightly corny and has more than it's fair share of compete character changes and massive issues over simplified at the last moment to wrap it up.

As a whole I'd give the series three stars.

Individually this book gets two.

Very good, fast read. Didn't end like I thought it would. I cried.

I have not finished this book, but I can say that I like it, just as much as I enjoyed the other two. The story is original, the characters are believable, and it is a story I can follow without continously asking myself, "Ok, now what's going on?"
I have not read her other series, but I think I just might once I am done.
I highly, highly recommend this book, heck, the whole series!

Maggie Furey completes her trilogy in fine form. She even leaves openings for further novels in her world of "Myrial". While I prefer her "Aurian" series more, this trilogy is worth a read and even a re-read.

...and nothing happens. I read this book simply because i read the first two and wanted to know what happened at the end.

At over 500 pages, this book is a whole lot of nothing to wade through at times painful to read thanks to the chain of cliches that make up the ending. Part of the problem is there is no antagonist. Sure there are a few minor battles and "evil" characters, but with no set bad guy, there is nothing to drive the plot forward. You could make a case that the vampyres are the main bad guys, but by this point they are more annoying than compelling. There are only so many times the characters can swoon over how horrifying these creatures are before you start to roll your eyes. Also, who is the main protagonist? Reading the back of the book you'd assume Veldan and Kaz are, but they're barely in the book at all. They appear in one chapter out of at least five before disappearing again for another handful of chapters (which is a shame because Kaz is one of the most interesting characters i've ever met).

It is a shame that such an interesting concept for a series resulted in this disaster. Ms. Furey has enough imagination to create vivid characters and unique worlds, but not enough to see her stories through. I had the same frustration with her Aurian saga: i kept waiting for the story to actually become entertaining.

Skip this series. Or if you're still interested, borrow it from the library so don't have this clunker staring you in the face when you're done.