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68 of 69 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Liar's Oath, July 19, 2000
Well folks to be honest with you I didn't enjoy Surrender None or Liar's Oath as much as the Paksenarrion Series. I found the charcter development took too long. I kept thinking "let's get on with the story" thru out the whole book.The main characters of Gird and Luap were obviously ment to be more real and less like the god-like beings of Paksenarrion's times. But they could be very shallow and it's sad to say, boring. The Paksenarrion series had a steady development of characters and regular adventures throughout the series. Surrender None & Liar's Oath was drawing on and on with the reader making the choice of should I bother finishing the book. It gives any reader the backround info into Paksenarrion, but I could have lived without it. Plus I was very upset with Amazon not advertising that The Legacy of Gird was a trade edition including Surrender None & Liar's Oath in one book, since I ended up purchasing it and Liar's Oath in the same order. So I doubled up when I surely didn't need too. Buyers beware folks.
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30 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
A Very Long, but Lost Legacy, January 24, 2003
Here we have a package containing the prequels to the very well done Deed of Paksenarrion. Unfortunately, neither approach the heights of that trilogy. The first, Surrender None is slow going but is worth the effort. Barely! The second, Liar's Oath, is a book that had no reason to be written. There is very little story, a confusion of who the main point of view characters are on the authors part with none getting much on page time yet not working as an ensemble piece either. In the end very little happens, and what does happen is so buried under the mundanity of most of the work that it seems trivial. Moon is a good author. She stumbled badly here though. Unless you have the disease of being a completionist, give these a pass.
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26 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
*YAWN*, June 19, 1999
By A Customer
I read this book because of a personal hang-up I have about finishing every series I start; otherwise, I think I would have given up by page 100. I like Moon's "Deed of Paksennarion" trilogy well enough, but think it is highly overrated. However, I felt I owed it to Moon to read her prequel, and perhaps finally discover the "incredible depth of world-building" that her fans are constantly raving about. As you may have guessed by now, I was sorely disappointed. The first novel contained in this volume, "Surrender None," does provide much relevant, sometimes interesting, though rather sluggish background to the Paksennarion trilogy. Learning the history of Gird, and seeing how many of the incidents of his life later grew into religious dogma was an overall worthwhile read, and is solely responsible for the two stars I've given this book. The second novel in this book, though, "Liar's Oath," seemed like it was written merely to "set up" a possible Paksennarion sequel. Unfortunately, Moon took around 400 pages to present what would have made a far more effective 20-page prologue or short story. "Liar's Oath" featured an unlikeable protagonist, rambling and over-used description, and no particular plot to speak of. I could probably sit here for hours and rant about how much I disliked this novel, but I've wasted enough time on this book already.
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