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The Mongoliad: Book Two by Greg Bear, Neal Stephenson, Erik Bear

naskoistaken's review against another edition

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3.0

Доста по-разхвърляна от първата част. Личат си разликите в стила и темпото, следствие от приноса на различните автори.
Отделно, че сюжетните линии са доста повече и нито една от тях не е логически оформена в края на втората част. Имам чувството, че някой просто е взел ръкописа и е разделил листата на три купчини.
Въпреки това, ще очаквам и третата част с нетърпение.

borislimpopo's review against another edition

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3.0

Ben poco da dire, rispetto alla recensione che ho fatto sul primo volume della saga: una lettura piacevole, ottima oper suoperare una noiosa influenzetta, e poco più. Continuano a essere fastidiosi gli errori di latino.

kikiandarrowsfishshelf's review against another edition

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2.0

I didn't like this book as much as the first one for one reason - the characters that I loved from the first book are hardly present in this volume. Instead you get even more characters who seem too much alike, including more knights. I missed Cnan who was almost an non-enitity in this one.

speljamr's review against another edition

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adventurous dark tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

tdeshler's review

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4.0

I didn't enjoy this one quite as much as the first one, but still pretty interesting. I think the fact that there were twice as many character sets and settings compared to the first one had something to do with it. Took me a bit of time to figure out what was going on with the new characters. I look forward to some resolution of the various story lines in the final book.

vailynst's review

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3.0

Notes:

A+ for Narration by Luke Daniels

Some parts are better written than others. This installment was not as interesting as the first and a few of the actions felt overly zealous/out of place.

kristenhg's review against another edition

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3.0

Well-written historical fantasy. This volume had a bit much papal intrigue for me, but there's plenty of other adventures in this series to keep me reading.

jldyer's review against another edition

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4.0

I'd give this a 3.5 - 4.0 stars. The voice acting was decent, except all the women were voiced by the same man. Although I'm happy he didn't use a falsetto voice, the voice still did not come across as female. I wish they would have used at least one female actor.

roba's review against another edition

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4.0

Another volume of exciting RPG-style adventure. Pretty sure the authors are keeping track of their (many) battle scenes with tabletop miniatures (probably lovingly crafted with tiny hammers by some blacksmith in Seattle) but to be honest, screw any books that aren't written by authors keeping track of the battle scenes with tabletop miniatures.

This part suffers slightly from being a bit inbetweeny - all the strands are in the middle of what they're up to, and I couldn't always remember who was who and what they'd been up to in the first book. But I guess ideally you'd read the entire series in one go, or indeed read it in ongoing 'serial' style, which I think is the idea of subscribing to the Mongoliad site.
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