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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780786941223
ISBN number: 0786941227
Label: Wizards of the Coast
Manufacturer: Wizards of the Coast
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 320
Printing Date: July 11, 2006
Publishing house: Wizards of the Coast
Release Date: July 11, 2006
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Death of a Darklord focuses on a young woman who finds that she has a talent for magic in a land and a family unforgiving of such abilities, and her tragic attempts to redeem herself in the eyes of her family by aiding them on their quest to end the dark magic that has destroyed a neighboring town.
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This is one of the worst books I've read in ages. I can't even think of any redeeming factors. The plot doesn't always make sense, there's no closure for the main character and it ends in a complete downer.
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For those of you fans of The Ravenloft books, LKH's unremarkable contribution is cringe worthy. And a blight. Not to mention boring and shoddy and terrible...you get the picture. Watching paint dry has more thrills and chills. I don't care if this was written before she got better and found her niche with Anita & Merry (before that went way south too). It's hard to imagine, at first, that this 'writer' penned the Anita Blake series, yet now...not so surprising. It just makes you wonder what happened to LKH, or the reality of it all, that she had that special magic for one thing, for a short period of time. Because she didn't have it before, and it ain't getting better now.
Elaine and her twin brother Blaine (oh jeez...) are orphaned children in a world where magic is circumspect and usually, evil. Living with foster parents, who hunt down 'mages' (people with magical abilities), Elaine must understand herself, and her unique abilities to help save a zombie-like plague that is ravaging a small village.
I don't even know where to begin with how rotten bad this book was. I think 8-year-olds have more creativity and plot structure than LKH at this point. There are so many things working against common sense, contradictions right and left, the idea of good and evil, and the fact that there was utterly no effort to make this a good story. The language is stilted and repetitive, there is no action or anything that makes you pay attention. It was bland, devoid of depth or sense of gripping...anything. For a 'dark' tale, it was anything but. There was no development, thought or heart, in any of the characters or the story itself. For a coming of age story, it wasn't. Totally forgettable, you'll vaguely remember the very first few chapters and stop caring, even if you try.
I only finished it because, well, call me nostalgic, I was hoping--praying--that the spitfire that's in her later works would be there, a trace. And there wasn't. At all.
Avoid, avoid, avoid but if you can't, and you like torture (and I don't' say this lightly): burn after reading.
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death of a darklord by Laurell K hamilton is a book in a new (new to me, i think it's actually very old) series by the author of the Anita Blake books. i love the anita blake series... reading this, you sometimes are reminded that it's the same author, because of a way of saying something.... the dad character in this book is highly moral, and trying to adjust this notions of magic, much as anita does throughout her series. but this book is also completely different. it's set in your typical fantasy land magical world (with only occasional references to things like kangaroos to give us a clue it might be earth) where people get around on horses and have nothing modern. the main family is part of a group sworn to get rid of mages and magic, but the main girl discovers she is a powerful mage herself. overall, it's a depressing book, and a little too geeky for me. i'll take the modern time sexi necromancer any day. but if you're a fan of this author, still might want to give it a peek.
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The ending of this book left me staring at the pages in utterly disgusted disbelief.
The beginning is good, the ideas and characters are interesting, if somewhat implausible, and there are several satisfactory plot lines. The plot continues to progress up to the point where the reader is excited to learn the end. "How will all these things be resolved?" the reader asks.
At this point in the book, Laurell kills off nearly every relevant character without rhyme or reason. She completely drops every single plot line so that none of them are resolved, and instead decides to kill her characters in various stupid or unlikely ways, and ends the book in such a way that the very first 9/10ths of the book are completely irrelevant.
She does not even employ the plot build-up in the wanton destruction of the last chapters. It's as if she got tired of the book, and wrote "And then they all died. The end!" and gave it to a highschool goth to finish writing.
However, after reading the very first few pages again, it all becomes clear.
She dedicated the book to her bird Baby, who apparently died halfway through the writing. It must have been so demoralizing that she could not bear life anymore, driving her to commit vicarious suicide via this tragedy of a book.
The greedy b*****d who dredged this spectre up from her past and resold it ought to be fired.
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I'm a huge Laurell K. Hamilton fan, but I found this book to be hard to get into, draggy and the characters to be not very interesting. I forced myself to finish the book and almost wish I hadn't. The ending sucked!
I don't know this story was just really dark and unappealing.
Would not recommend at all.
The only reason I gave the story two stars is because it's obvious that Laurell is a good writer, even in the midst of a really bad story.
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