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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Working on the third set,
By Cathy Jacks (Bossier City, LA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: House of the Wolf: Book Three of The Phoenix Legacy (Paperback)
I found the 2nd book (Shadow of the Swan) of the trilogy first and was immediately hooked. I found the first book (Sword of the Lamb) next in a used book store in Dallas ( this was years before Amazon.com) and searched for the third (House of the Wolf) for 3 years. It is the most engrossing and enthralling set of books I have found since the Lord of the Rings. I've worn out two sets and am now wearing out the 3rd. It has adventure, action, romance, morality (and immorality), philosophy, religion and can still be classified as hard sci-fi. Character development is superb and the historical progression into the time of the trilogy is frightingly believable and, given current events, terrifyingly possible. This is a trilogy that needs to be re-printed in hard cover and is appropriate for all but the youngest of readers, both male and female.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful to read and re-read.,
This review is from: House Of The Wolf (Phoenix Legacy Book 3) (Paperback)
I read the first of these books when I was in 7th grade. It took me two years to locate a copy of the 2nd book and two more to find the 3rd. It was well worth the wait and I stayed up all night to read the final book. The characters are wonderfully crafted, the story line is multilevel. The only books I have read more times are "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "The Lord of the Rings". If you can locate a copy of these in a used book store, buy them! Don't let the romance novel apperance keep you from enjoying these great books.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
If only there were more...,
By jend "genii13" (San Francisco, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: House of the Wolf: Book Three of The Phoenix Legacy (Paperback)
I discovered this series orignally via a loan [yes, all were returned] over 10 years ago. Over the next 5 years I painstakingly collected them, all long-since out of print, for myself from used bookstores across California. Having read and reread them to the point of needing "new" copies yet again [thanks to Amazon this time], I cannot recommend the enire trilogy enough.This end piece wavers not at all with regard to the charaters, story, plot and tone as begun and carried through Sword of the Lamb and Shadow of the Swan. Alexand, Adrien, the Concord, the Phoenix, the Outside... you cannot help but be caught up in the personal, political and global struggles of the society which MK Wren has created. The technology developed as part of this post-Disasters environment makes their world only that much more appealing. Intensely detailed, the historian in me was just as delighted with the "archive lectures" as with the "current" story line. The lectures are also very much a necessary part of the first read-through. Within the character's lives and the attendant system-wide events they are a part of, there are enough challenges and setbacks to keep what is going right from feeling over sappy and preordained. I only wish that, like the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings [the only series I've gone through more copies of], there were more books to go with these three. Have I been vague enough in my praise? May I also say that I liked the original cover art better?
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