The Covenant of the Flame [Paperback]

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• Paperback
• Publisher: Warner Books (2001)
• ASIN: B001GRYC28
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,708,326 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Decent plot; juvenile dialog, December 31, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Covenant of the Flame (Mass Market Paperback)

I give the author credit for a decent plot, but what could have been a great story, wasn't. The book missed the mark, in my opinion, for three reasons. First, the dialog, at times, was a little too juvenile. The dialog read like a mistake that a first time novelist would make--phony, stilted, just plain unreal. The second problem involved the contrived romances. While I'm not sure whether or not I believe in love at first sight, I am sure that having it occur twice in one book is a bit much. I got the feeling that that romances were thrown in to explain why a particular character would go to the lengths he/she did to help out another. Finally, while parts of a mystery were revealed to one of the characters, the author made comments like, she felt as if she were going insane, etc. I'm sorry, based on what was happening at the time and what the character had been through, going insane at those particular moments just seemed unbelievable at best.

As mentioned, the story was okay, but had I been reading the book rather than listening to the unabridged audio book version, I don't know if I could have made it to the end. Sorry, this is one Morrell book I can't recommend.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Average for Morrell, January 18, 2000

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Donald Brickeen - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Covenant of the Flame (Mass Market Paperback)

The book was enjoyable, but doesn't compare to the gripping success of Morrell's finest (i.e. "Brotherhood Of The Rose", "Fraternity Of The Stone", and "The League Of Night And Fog", with the three being somewhat of a trilogy). Morrell is an exceptional author, but he seems less than inspired on this one...still, Morrell at his mediocre best is still much better than majority of writers on the scene today

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Skin-deep research, disappointingly adolescent dialogue., August 11, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The Covenant of the Flame (Mass Market Paperback)

Could have been well done, the topics were interesting but the author did little in-depth research that would have made the book more authentic. The dialogue was not believable, real people do NOT say these things to each other. Background is given in the middle of the action to justify the heroine's behavior. This interupts the flow of the action and distracts the reader