The Fallon Blood [Hardcover]

Reagan O'Neal (Author), Robert Jordan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1995

Escaping brutal English overlords, 1760s Irishman Michael Fallon becomes an indentured servant to Charleston, South Carolina, merchant Thomas Carver, where his infatuation with Carver's sensual daughter Elizabeth causes life-changing complications. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 381 pages
• Publisher: Forge (September 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312859732
• ISBN-13: 978-0312859732
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #230,774 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great historical adventure, September 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Fallon Blood, Book 1 (Mass Market Paperback)

The Fallon Blood is an excellent work of historical fiction, and it ought to be read by all who have a love for adventure and who have even just a mild curiousity about the American Revolution. Jordan commands both a top notch understanding the war and late 18th century American lifestyle.

Jordan writes about the period via a story about fictional characters who occasionally run into famous historical figures. Generals Lafayette and Nathaniel Greene, for example, make appearances in the novel. Younger writers, such as Jason Manning, have written with this approach, but Jordan is masterful with this book.

Despite his excellence, Jordan is not without his weaknesses. Even with all of the historical expertise he displays in the pages of the Fallon Blood, Jordan will always be a "Conan the Barbarian" writer at heart. The hero, Fallon, is handsome and macho. Sex is offered to him frequently and easily. He possesses tremendous skill and physical strength as a soldier. The women are beautiful and extremely sexually active. The villains are evil and twisted. Hence, the story is a bit unrealistic at times, but what a fun way to learn a greal deal of historically accurate information about early America!

Readers from South Carolina will loves this book more than any other fans of Jordan's work. Jordan possesses an undeniable arrogance and pride about the role of South Carolina in the American Revolution, and the Fallon Blood is his vehicle for sharing those feelings and beliefs with the rest of the world. Regardless of whether or not you will agree with Jordan's historical evaluation of his home state, this book is a sexy and exiting look at the birth of our nation. Give it a read!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I was iffy when i bought it, but..., August 6, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Fallon Blood (Hardcover)

I have read all of the wheel of time books, and RJ places second on my favorite authors list. I had no idea that he even wrote these Fallon books until I happened upon this one. I must say that I have never even had a slight interest in historical fiction, or what actually happened to gain us our independance, but after reading this book I found that it is quite fasinating. This book really helped expand my interests to more than just fantasy novels. I would never have opened it if had not had RJ's name on it.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ah the struggles of a new author, June 12, 2002

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Dixon Whitley (Albuquerque, New Mexico United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Fallon Blood, Book 1 (Mass Market Paperback)

Reading this book reminded me of something that Orson Scott Card wrote once about how he bought back the rights to his first novel, just to make sure that no one would go back and reprint it on the merits of his later books. This novel shows the weakness that a new writer brings to a novel. The story is too plot driven, the villians have weak motivation, and the use of point of view was simply baffeling. There were times when I completely lost track of who the point of veiw was following. This novel also shows Jordan's often odd and what I find highly unlikely veiw of how women see the world. And while I could keep this list going, for all of that he managed to write a fairly compelling story. His historical backgroud was interesting, if for nothing else but for the southern bias that it takes.

While there are far to many mistakes to call this a great novel, and any of Jordan's wheel of time novels are far better. This was an entertaining read that can show how much a writer can improve.