- Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (1 Mar 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0786918039
- ISBN-13: 978-0786918034
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 10.6 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,663,007 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Johan must race against time to understand how and why a mysterious prophecy, a wizard, and a tiger man are involved in the fate of the city of Bryce, before unfriendly neighbors take over Bryce and enslave its people.
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Format:Paperback
Johan is set in the world of Magic: the Gathering, based on the card game of the same name. Anyone who's ever read a M:tG book will understand me when I say that this book doesn't directly relate to the main plot, but has the same world. To people new to M:tG let me explain. The plot of the majority of books it the M:tG series is conserned with the Dominaria vs. Phyrexia (two planes or dimentions) War. This book doesn't relate to it, we don't know if it's set before, during or after. To a fan of the books it's worth reading, because it's well written, has developed charicters, and a twistly plot that leads well into the other books in this trillogy. If your new to M;tG books, I'd strongly recoment the first book "The Brothers War", followed by the second "Plainswalker", possibly the best book ever. After that, this book will make more sence.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
As a Magic: The Gathering TCG player, I enjoyed reading all of the books from the Magic universe. This one however, dissapointed me to some point. It's not so well written, the plot is missing big twists of somekind, and it's just not what I think Legends expansion is supposed to be. Maybe someone had the same vision of the cycle as the author of the book had, but I haven't and that totally threw me out of line. If you read the book without knowing anything about MTG, it will not have the same effect, because you don't know any of the characters, and none of the events. The book puts you in the time when you played with the same cards, and that's what we all like... Read it, and see for yourself.
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A colorful casts of characters from the original MTG author
3 Mar 2011
Format:Mass Market Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Getting back to a more localized story, away from the epic and world-spanning tale of Urza and Gerrard, this book tells of a psychotic and deranged ruler (Johan) trying to conquer Jammura, and of the colorful group of characters that stand in his way. The Legends Cycle represents the return of Clayton Emery to the MTG multiverse, the same author who wrote the first four MTG books published (1,2,3,4). He was good then, and he's good now. Full of unexpected surprises, intense action, gory descriptions, and favorite characters who suddenly die, Clayton Emery's books are typically better than the average MTG fare. While the evil magician Johan is only perfunctorily described here, with nothing much about his motivation or background, this book is full of other great and well-developed characters. My favorites were Adira Strongheart and her loyal "band of seven" (composed of between 4 and 9 bravos, depending on how fast she can replace fallen comrades), who aren't your typical heroes, but a bunch of low-down pirates with shaky morals at best, but who are nonetheless wrangled into fighting on the side of good. Others include Hazezon Tamar and Jaeger, neither of whom developed into very compelling characters, despite their having great potential. The story told here progresses quickly and is entertaining throughout, but this is definitely only part of the overall tale, so you don't get the firm feeling wrap-up you would with a true stand-alone novel.
Overall, better than the majority of MTG books, a decent effort by Emery. Still, recommended for fans of the series only.
Overall, better than the majority of MTG books, a decent effort by Emery. Still, recommended for fans of the series only.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Jedit!? It's Jaeger!
21 Sep 2001
Format:Mass Market Paperback
DESPITE the fact that SOME people think Jaeger is his son Jedit, I still think that this book is pretty good. The ending, however, could have been better. Johan's character is too underdeveloped. The reader has no idea of what motivates him. I'll say this book is pretty average. (And yes, My REAL name is Johan.)
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Great book Overall with a few holes in it.
10 Oct 2001
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The book was overall great, there were something I didnt care for, such as the pirates... and the very end, but despite these it was still a very good book. Clayton Emery, writer of the original magic series(produced by Harper Prism) returns to write the first book of legends cycle... despite my dislike of pirate related thing, Emery does an exceptional job of keeping the reader intrested, and even further I awaited the term of each page and found myself wanted to skip partts of sentances just to find out what happened next. However... the plot seemed to go kind of far out at times, but was much like an epic would. The other weak point in my opinion was the end... The long awaited confrontation between Johan and the Tiger Man was rather much to short, however I did not expect it and so even this was in a way a nice surprise. If oyu find any of Clayton Emery's first books, I suggest you pick them up as well
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