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Sky of Swords (Tale of the King's Blades) (Hardcover)

by Dave Duncan (Author)
3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Eos (HarperCollins); 1st edition edition (Oct 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0380974622
  • ISBN-13: 978-0380974627
  • Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 15.7 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,986,150 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A worthy climax to the stirring series, 5 Nov 2002
This review is from: Sky of Swords:: A Tale of the King's Blades (Mass Market Paperback)
Having been introduced to Dave Duncan's work with "The Gilded Chain" (now a well-thumbed & well-read copy) & having been suitably impressed (& confused) by the follow-up "Lord of the Fire Lands" & the paradoxes raised I had to read the third book to make sense of it all. Like the previous two it was a real page-turner, hurrying you along to find out what happened next throughout the book. Whilst the story was very good I found the need to find out how/why the background history differed from the first book pushed me into guessing how things would probably resolve with a good few pages to go, but the journey to that plot resolution was still worthwhile. Whilst not as interesting to return to as the first book it was still superior to many other novels & certainly Dave Duncan deserves to be mentioned for his excellently believable worlds & characters in the same sentence as Raymond Feist & David Gemmell. I look forward to reading the next book in the series on the strength of the those so far.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved this book., 10 Jan 2008
By Emily Johnson "lhiannanshee" (Bradford, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sky of Swords:: A Tale of the King's Blades (Mass Market Paperback)
in my opinion, this is a fantastic end to the trilogy. I adored the character of Miranda and her relationships with the blades were really interesting. If you read the others, this one makes sense of the plot. It's fantastic.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars All in all this was a disappointment, 6 Jul 2004
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This review is from: Sky of Swords:: A Tale of the King's Blades (Mass Market Paperback)
I really enjoyed the two first books in this series - but this one left me cold.

The story itself is OK, although I found it somewhat more longwinded than the first books.
But the real problem was that the paradoxes between this and the previous books just kept removing my attention from the tale itself.
In addition to this I did not find way the paradoxes was resolved very beliveable although it did resolve the contradictions.

I won't say that the book is not worth reading - and if you have read the two first books, you will probably want to read this book to resolve the contradictions already introduced.

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