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Title: The Outcast
ISBN: 1594264155
Author:
Louise Cooper
Publicate Date: 2006-10-31
Publish: 2006-10-31
List Price: $24.95
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: Gripping - filled with great images
Wonderful fantasy writer Louise Cooper really holds my interest with these interesting settings and characters. I read these long ago, and had to hunt them down on an auction site so I could read them again and hopefully pass them along. A great read and satisfying trilogy. Worth your time.
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2: A mystery in a fantasy world
Reviewed by Stefannie Vaughan for Reader Views (5/ 07)
Tarod, a former adept with incredible powers locked within his soul, is neither man nor a demon. Inhuman. He is a man who stopped time alone in one place to save himself, and live alone. Shunned by the Circle and all those he knew except for one girl. Her name is Cylann Anassan, an outcast drover-girl with an open mind and very stubborn attitude. Cylann had some talent herself when it came to powers which helped her out in the long run. She was sucked into a dimension where time no longer existed, along with her conceded tagalong, a boy named Drechea Rannak, heir Margrave of Shu Province, from Shu-Nhadek. He, on the other hand, had no talent except for being vane, dependent, and pampered.
With every man for himself, clues were unlocked and secrets unfolded, then time was restored, and the Circle of adepts brought back, but all was still not well.
Louise Cooper has a remarkable technique of writing, sucking you into the story, with vivid details, making it a real page-turner. She gets right to the main points, keeping your full attention and keeping you on your toes.
"The Outcast" was a book about loyalty and what really goes on behind closed doors, a mystery that takes place in a fantasy world, and a book that you won't want to put down if you like suspense with a new twist lurking in every corner.
I did not want "The Outcast" to end. The ending was left open, leaving you wondering what happened to everyone. What were all their troubles for? Was it worth it? Did everyone win? A great book makes me want to read the next one in the series to answer all my questions.
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3: Brother To Chaos
This is the second book in the Time Master Trilogy, and could very well be the best of the bunch. The pace picks up in this volume from the first book, and has romance thrown in for good measure. Actually the romantic angle is very believable and very well-written. Cyllan is a character who is simple, and as a result is genuine, The other female lead, Sashka, introduced in the first book, is also deceptively simple, yet also genuinly believable. To have so many strong, well-crafted characters who aren't the main heroes of a story is a risky move, but Louise Cooper pulls it off with no problem here. In what seems almost impossible, Tarod seems even more interesting and believable here, even though the story is getting more advanced, and his ties to normal humanity are getting severed. This is a solid second chapter, and sets the stage perfectly for the third and final book, The Master.
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4: Great second book!
In this second book we find Tarod 'prisoner' in a castle with the time stopped, he himself provoked this stasis. His soul is trapped in a jewel and he waits...Until Cyllan, the drover girl he had met in the first book is caught by a warp and ends in the shores of the castle. Tarod and Cyllan get to know each other, but mainly they discover Tarod, his true nature and what a startling nature that is! Cyllan becomes very loyal to Tarod, and eventually the stasis is broken and they are again loose in the world... This book is more fast paced than the previous and the relations between the characters are very interesting. We begin to see that it's wrong when only one side rules (in this case order), there needs to be an equilibrium.
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5: The Outcast
I found this book absolutely fantastic. I read it about ten years ago and lent my whole set to somebody who never returned them. I'd love to read them again but have only been able to purchase the first and last one as 'The Outcast' is out of print at present. Please, please, if anybody out there knows where I can get a copy, please let me know - I'm desperate! I can't wait to get back into the story of Tarod and after reading the reviews above, I want to read them even more. babs@phil57.freeserve.co.uk
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