The Hand of Chaos - Margaret Weis Reviews
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Newest Review: ... came over me. I'd been reading this series for some time now, I'd explored for new worlds with our anti-hero Haplo - ... more
... incidentally, his conversion to good in this novel is pretty much complete, anyway - and I was eager to see the plot and intrigue open up and the characters and scenarios of all four worlds interacting. Well, its afe to say that Weis and Hickman fail here,c atastrophically, on almost every level. The adventure simply shifts back to Arianus and we get the adventures of the dwarves (or "Gegs" and their Kicksey Winsey pt 2. Lord Xar, you see, wants to understand how the machine works so that he can control ...more
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Margaret Weis Deathgate: Hand of Chaos 5 (Death Gate Cycle) Pages: 464, Edition: Reissue, Mass Market Paperback, Bantam USA Last Update 24.05.2013 03:53
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Margaret Weis The Hand of Chaos (The death gate cycle) Pages: 463, Edition: First?, Hardcover, Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub ... Last Update 24.05.2013 03:53
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Customer The Hand of Chaos - Margaret Weis Reviews (1)
by - written on 16/01/08 (Very useful, 13 readings)
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There comes a point in a long running series of x number of fantasy novels that you begin to wonder if a) the thing will ever end and b) why on earth you ever undertook the somewhat immense project of reading them in the first place. When I last read the Hand of Chaos an immense feeling of hopelessness and despair came over me. I'd been reading this series for some time now, I'd explored for new worlds with our anti-hero Haplo - incidentally, his conversion to good in this novel is pretty much complete, anyway - and I was eager to see the plot and intrigue open up and the characters and scenarios of all four worlds interacting. Well, its afe to say that ... Read the complete review
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