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The Hand of Chaos - Margaret Weis

 
Description: ISBN 0553563696 / Author: Margaret Weis / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / While the Lord of the Nexus orders his servant, Haplo, and Bane, the ... more
The Hand of Chaos - Margaret Weis ... human child, to further their master's work on Arianus, the resurrected assassin, Hugh the Hand, seeks to complete his mission.

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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Premium Review The Hand of Chaos - Margaret Weis: Deathly Dire Gate (281 words)
by - written on 16/01/08 (Very useful, 11 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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