The Sacred Seven [Import] [Paperback]

AMY STOUT (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY LTD; paperback / softback edition (1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0340653620
• ISBN-13: 978-0340653623
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Badly written and unoriginal, September 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Sacred Seven (One Land Saga) (Paperback)

This book was painful to read. Important events are just sketched in and force the reader to pay close attention, lest he miss something significant, but the obvious is overexplained. No new twists are added to a fairly standard tale. The reader ends up working hard to wring a story out of the text, only to find it wasn't worth the effort.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A poorly-told pointless tale, July 25, 2000

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Lucy Bregman (Philadelphia, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Sacred Seven (One Land Saga) (Paperback)

A half-dozen characters gradually join together, sort of, and an enormous amount of space is wasted on backchat, while the central action gets slighted. The only real drama comes from scenes of burned out massacred villages, as if the author must keep our interest by evoking real historical horrors, because otherwise the book's contents are so uninteresting. I like fantasy tales, but to work they require storytelling skill, a sense of action and direction which this book lacks.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre, July 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Sacred Seven (One Land Saga) (Paperback)

Typical, generic fantasy. The whole plot, setting and characters sound vaguely familiar, so unoriginal are they. I'd have to say the best thing about the book would definitely be the awesome cover. If you're really bored, it's worth a read, but otherwise, don't bother. This book taught me (once again) that judging books by their covers doesn't work.