1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Fun and engaging fantasy read, January 22, 2012
3 1/2 Stars Review:
Talk about LARPing gone wrong. That's the basis of the Prophecy of the Flame. A group of role players are participating in a live action event when they are suddenly summoned into another world where magic and demons are real.
The characters were excellently written, personalities and flaws were unique and clearly defined / shown. I was eager to read past the intro. The beginning drags a bit but once they are in the `new' world things really pick up and you don't want to put it down!
Magic is a major event in this world and while what can be done with it seems to be limitless (well, only limited by imagination of the welder) there are consequences and physical limits to how much and how often it can be used.
My only complaints honestly are based on the vehement use of the idea Judeo/Christian god as being the only one and that `pagan' is bad. For Christians I'm sure that is a great selling point but as a Wiccan it chaffs a bit while reading. The other thing I had trouble with was the strange morality both of the world and of Reba. The worlds lack of commitment I can buy, though I would hate to live like that, but Reba's morality issues with her hubby bother me.
That aside, the story is great, the characters engaging, and both the `war' and the `love story' kept me wanting more. I reached the last page and was frustrated that I didn't have book 2 to immediately begin!
Don't let the RPG throw you, this is a fun and engaging Fantasy read!
Interview with Author Lynn Hardy - [...]
Note: A movie, based on Prophecy of the Flame, is in production.
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Awful., June 12, 2011
This is one of the most uninspired and boring storytelling I've read in a long time. The main character, the Archmage Reba, is a horrible Mary Sue. She is perfect, can do anything with magic, and everyone wants to get into her pants. There is very little plot development, her companions are demoted to small side/incidental characters, and the majority of the book is devoted to her personal eating/sleeping/bathing schedule. There is very little to zero sense of danger to this character. If someone doesn't like her, she fixes their problems with magic and they like her within the next few pages. Everyone continually comments on how beautiful and wonderful she is. She casts spells that make her super strong, super fast, and can fly. She can throw fireballs, erect giant magical shields over cities, and the god of that world even makes exceptions for her. The only thing she's unable to reliably do is go home to her original world, which would, destroy whatever plot was trying to get around the heroine's ridiculously boring and complicated day-to-day schedule.
This is fiction, no, fan-fiction, at its' worst. Avoid these books.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Felt like the author was a DM, September 21, 2010
I bought this book because I actually met the author at a local signing. The book was $0.99, so I figured I had nothing to lose, right? Good thing it was so cheap. The story may have seemed interesting, but I could not get past the author's use of first person tense and had a pervasive feeling that the author was trying to run me through a table-top pen & paper game. I would be willing to try her stories again if she were to work in a different tense.
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