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The Master

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Louise Cooper is a wizard with words and emotions. This particular series which culminates in The Master is one that I reread every year. She has a rare understanding of the balance of Chaos and Order which invites one to reflect upon one's own issues and reactions to life. She weaves a tapestry of words that teases one to challenge and to widen one's own perceptions in a very subtle way. This is a master at work. Her dark lord of chaos is deep, tantalizingly mysterious and haunting. His immortal struggle to maintain the balance between the stimulus of chaos and the sameness of order for all mankind is a seductive reminder of our own inner darkness and struggles. The blandness/perfection of the lord of order reminds one of the sugary monotony of too much of a good thing, ie: order, yet it too is appealing in its shiny, fool's gold qualities. The lord of order reminds one of the stagnation that arises from the stullifying effects of unremitting sameness. The characters are engaging and deeply developed. I wish Louise Cooper would write another trilogy on Chaos and Order, plumbing even greater depths of the themes and characters in the Time Master Trilogy. She creates a mind expanding body of work that I have found just impossible to not feel a hungry yearing for more of this fascinating subject. Simply irresistable.

Some have complained that the ending of this book is too pat, too easily wrapped up, and betrays the entire series, I didn't see it that way. I felt that the path and decisions that Tarod made were very easily understood. When betrayed by the gods that he devoted his life to, Tarod took the only path open to him. The story is fast-paced again, but has a wonderful pacing to it, so it doesn't feel too rushed. This stands as a wonderful work of imagination, and when read with the other books in the trilogy, succeeds at taking you to another world, complete and whole. If you can find it, get the entire trilogy and read it. You won't be disappointed.

I also feel that these books are very hard to find. I hope to pass along this trilogy, first to husbad, and then to whoever will take them from me. Really a great series, worth reading and the ideas and images will stay with you. Obviously I liked them!

I thought that this book was fantastic!!!!!! It was very hard to put down. The layout of the different characters was good, I especially liked the relationship between Tarod and Cyllan. The only problem is is that you need to read book 1 the Initiate, and book 2 the Outcast, before you can read the Master. But overall a very good book!!

It's time, Tarod knows what he has to do and believes that Aeoris, the supreme god of Order, will forgive his sins, even if he is not sure what are his sins...
But there's no space for doubts, of that he is sure, so he continues his search for Cyllan who was taken by a Warp. She has to be alive because if not... if not then there won't by a future.

And during his journey he witnesses what happens when fear controls the world. Innocents die, houses are burn and families are destroyed. Everything in the name of Order...

The last book in The Time Master trilogy is full of adventure, of desperation and fear for what could happen, what will happen if Tarod is wrong and Aeoris condemns him. What if Yandros, that tricky god of Chaos, is right and not everything is how it looks like.

Is there room for forgiveness between Tarod and Keridill? Will Cyllan and Tarod's love win or perish after the final battle?

What is Tarod's big secret?...

Bought this book for my son. Was hard to find and it was in much better shape than he anticipated.

Ms.Coopers books, esp her Time Master series are very enjoyable, she spends a great deal of time on character development, so the reader really gets to know the character and relate to them.

Her books provoke great emotion when reading them, you feel anger, sadness, joy, and a myriad of emotions when exploring her books. I've read the Time Master series so many times that they are dogeared. I highly recommend this book.

This book rocks. I am not going to write in a spoiler here, so all i can really say is that this book is an excellent climax to the Time Master Trilogy. Although people have complained that they dislike the ending, i don't fault it.

In fact, the only problem i have with these books is that they're so damn hard to find!

I have to admit, there are veryfew fantasy works which i trule love. I can only count two series: Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series, and Tolkiens Lord of the Rings. The Master is an intriguing end to a good series, but it is only a shade above mediocre.

The balance among Order and Chaos is an occasional theme in fantasy, and Louise Cooper brings a slightly fresh but suspect twist to this. In effect she says that too much of one power can make it stagnant and complacent. I was a little suspicious of this because it smacks of the 'I'm ok, your ok' attitude prevalent nowadays.

The story is good, and Mrs. Cooper tries to involve the whole world in it. Unfortunately the world seems a bit cramped (especially after viewing the huge multitude of parallel universes in His Dark Materials, and the epic scope of the Lord of the Rings). I wasn't really sucked in to the world at any point, and the secnery was quite drab in the beginning.

Towards the end, though, the pace begins to pick up, and this is the best part of the book (and the trilogy). Suspense builds, and I found myself speculating on the casket's contents. The battle scene was a little confusing, but I like the imagery involved. This is the only part of the book with real grandeur and the epic clash left me a bit breathless. Unfortunately I was rather annoyed with the fairy-tale ending where Tarod's lover is brought back to life and is made immortal. But the rest of the end was great; I felt sympathy for Keridil, and there was a sense of total upheaval in the world- the old order gone, the new order in.

This is a great book! I love the way Louise Cooper looks at the world in a different way. Most authors write about the perfectness of order, but Cooper makes us think about the balance needed in the world. The characters, Tarod and Cyllan are built up really well.I have reread this book at least five times and I really want to find some more books by Louise Cooper.