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Lamentation (Psalms of Isaak, #1) - Community Reviews back

by Ken Scholes
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The Ninja Reader
The Ninja Reader rated it 11 years ago
All the books I read and couldn't review this year. Check out the full list on The Book Lantern.
Blodeuedd
Blodeuedd rated it 11 years ago
The book was strangely compelling, still I did not know whether to give it a 3 or a 4. Yes it was good, but was it great? I think that I will go for the later as it was the world and the plot that made it so. What a plot! There was once a world, yes might just be Earth but it was destroyed. Some e...
A Total Inability To Connect
A Total Inability To Connect rated it 11 years ago
Writing: 4.5Story/Plot: 4.5Depth/Detail: 4.5Enjoyment: 5You ever get that time where you find something new, the thing that other people seem to know about but you never did, and when you finally experience it, you have that "how the hell did I live without ever knowing about this?!" moment? For me,...
Wyvernfriend Reads
Wyvernfriend Reads rated it 12 years ago
It's a complicated and involved story that starts with a city being destroyed and continues into the why's more than the who. It took me a fair while to get truly into the story but once I was into it I was hooked. Nebios is one of the pivotal characters, he's an innocent abroad and his life is n...
spocksbro
spocksbro rated it 14 years ago
A deeply heartfelt "meh."I started reading this Easter Day (2011) because I had finished The Mammoth Cheese - two thumbs up! waaaay up! - and wanted to mentally vegetate for a bit.There's nothing particularly memorable about Ken Scholes' debut novel nor anything particularly awful about it. It's jus...
Saturdays in Books
Saturdays in Books rated it 14 years ago
I liked this more than I would have thought from the first third. The prose is a little too pretty to feel gritty, but not irritatingly over stylized. The end has enough resolution to allow the story to function as a stand alone while maintaining hooks for a series. I'd be a lot more eager to read t...
StaceyHH
StaceyHH rated it 14 years ago
Wow, I loved this, and can't believe I took so long to start it. Is this what they call "gateway" sci-fi? It's written like fantasy, but the hints and foreshadowing tells me that it's going to get much more... well, science fiction. Love it!
Bryan Thomas Schmidt
Bryan Thomas Schmidt rated it 15 years ago
A mix of fantasy and science fiction, Lamentation tells the story of the Named Lands, home to the survivors of a great destruction. When the great city of Windwir is suddenly destroyed, and the Named Lands' library and repository of knowledge with it, the leaders of the provinces find themselves on ...
Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous
Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous rated it 15 years ago
The cover really caught my eye at Comic Con back when it was new, and then a few months later I won a copy of the mass market paperback online. Then the significant other scored her a copy of the hardcover at MacMillan's Free Book Day in 2010, after she had already read and liked the older copy. I'm...
Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous
Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous rated it 15 years ago
The cover really caught my eye at Comic Con back when it was new, and then a few months later I won a copy of the mass market paperback online. Then the significant other scored her a copy of the hardcover at MacMillan's Free Book Day in 2010, after she had already read and liked the older copy. I'm...
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