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Title: The Initiate
ISBN: 1594260842
Author:
Louise Cooper
Publicate Date: 2005-09-08
Publish: 2005-09-08
List Price: $13.00
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Paperback
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1: Really Great Fantasy
This author and her books are so overlooked - How Sad! This trilogy is an interesting Law v. Chaos undertaking and it keeps you hooked through all three. Well written and well concieved. Completely enjoyable, filled with action and suspense. You will find yourself recomending these books.
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2: The Face of Chaos
I have to say this my second-favorite trilogy of all time, right after "The Lord of the Rings", which is incredible company. I have never understood why Louise Cooper isn't better known, because her characters are so well-written, perfectly drawn individuals, and the story here is an extremely original take on good vs evil. The idea that evil is easily seen and identified at first look is not encouraged here. This story shows that evil takes many faces and forms, even in those who are supposedly good. Tarod, the main person of the story, is very well-conceived and thought-out, and as a result is very easily the most sympathetic character. This first book of the trilogy is the most character-intensive of the trilogy, and so needs the most effort to get through. Really, though, it's no effort for this is a great read. My copy of this book is coming apart at the seams due to the many times it's been read. The ending leaves you wanting more, and more than ready for the second book in the trilogy, The Outcast. Truly, Louise Cooper has introduced an original, fresh, and extremely entertaining story, which is in itself something to be impressed with, as original stories are rare, and good ones even more rare.
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3: Huge expansion on earlier work
My first experiance of Louise Cooper was "Lord Of No Time" a 1977 book that told the tale of the mage Tarod and how he fell foul of his one time friend Keridil Toln. I loved it and hoped that the characters would appear in additional volumes. They did but not in the way expected, Louise Cooper rewrote the whole thing, spreading it out over the three volumes of the Time Master trilogy. Fortunately at no time does it lose the sharp freshness of the original, it's well worth getting hold of as is the subsequent series The Chaos Gate trilogy, though I would only give that four stars.
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4: This book is incredible!
I just recently got a copy of this book and ever since I've been glued to it! It's a really good book. Definitely worth the time it takes to read. The only problem is the ending, and there are 2 more to help with that. I have no complaints about this book. The confrontations especially are superbly well done, if you have any inclination toward fantasy or science fiction (especially both) this is one book you should look up.
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5: Definately worth reading.. .. Ten times.
If you are young, romantic, impressionable, warning! You are about to have a hero (Tarod) for life! This book is so melodic and finely balanced I never read it without hearing a silent wail of the perfect background music: U2's Achtung baby album... probably Mysterious Ways, Y Love is blindness.. And wasn't that just the best album they produced? I believe this series is LC's most outstanding trilogy.. it is achingly beautiful and impossibly tragic...
Okay I hope I'm not putting you off it here, but honestly, this is still one of the best books I have ever read, and I've read more than a few. For similarly smashing books, see my so you want to list...
Read the book and then write you can write your own overly gushy & cringe worthy descriptions trying to capture it's essence, and convince others to read it. Until then...
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