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Magic the Gathering: The Eternal Ice

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Grubb is the master. This book is at least as good if not better than the previous book in the series, "The Gathering Dark" (see my review on that book). It is another book that you just can't put down. It continues the story of Jodah as an adult of great age (around two thousand years). The only bad feature in the book is the time gap between Jodah as a mageling in the time of the Conclave of Mages to Jodah being two thousand years old and known as the Archmage Eternal at the City of Shadows (now The School of the Unseen on the islan of Lat-Nam). It also offers a new evil mage Lim Dul. And it ties in with the Magic The Gathering edition Ice Age really well. Simple vocab and sentence structure, but still very exciting.

This book was really good, and became an essential part to the Trilogy. It finally explains the Kjeldorans and Balduvians and about their part of the Ice Age. Although this book is not as good as the other two, I enjoyed it very much. It was a great introduction for the final and best addition to the trilogy. The entire series is an awe inspiring work of writing.

Jeff Grubb is possibly the best Magic the gathering writer. Now about the book, this book continues the story of Jodah. This book is much later in time than the Gathering Dark but do your self the favor and read that book first I have a review there too. Lim-Dul calls Jodah back from the dead or so it seems.....some strage student shows up and the truth un folds......I won't tell you anymore. I almost reccomend this MORE for a person who has never really played the game. Jeff did it agian!

In my opinion, this book took a serious step down from the the previous one, The Gathering Dark. Where that one introduced and developed a great new character and a more MTG-faithful system of magic, this one simply tells a basic and almost generic story without adding much of anything to the MTG multiverse. While Grubb is undoubtedly a talented writer, and this book will entertain, I couldn't help but being somewhat disappointed by THE ETERNAL ICE. The story of Lim Dul's attempts to take over the world just seemed like a side story for the overall tale of Jodah, who wasn't really too involved in this book's outcome. The inclusion of a couple of Planeswalkers (especially Freyalise) added some to the book, but not enough to make it worth your while. Not recommended.

I loved The Gathering Dark and I wasn't sure if Grubb could do it again. However, right from the start, the story reels you in and doesn't let go. A great addition to the Ice Age trilogy, highly recommended.

I read this book first then Book I of the trilogy (sorta got me confused but i figured it out). This book was realy good from the start but it does leave you geussing how he became an Eternal though. The book tells you about the struggle Jodah has, from rembering who he is to fighting a great evil army, over coming great odds. I recomend this book and every book in the trilogy (or else your just lost wondering things).

The book continues the story of Jodah. the writing was good andthe story's plot kept my attention. The battle part, however, was inneed of extra editing. I was disappointed that the name Shandalar wasnot mentioned.

After reading the first book in the Ice Age Cycle, I eagerly awaited the next one. I must admit, while this book was basically good, it was hard to understand and didn't really connect well with the other book. We learn that Jodah as magically altered himself to be able to live eternally, but we don't really get much information about how he did this, or even when. One good thing: Jaya Ballard was a hoot! Pretty good read, but it may not be what you're expecting.