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Buy The Oracle's Queen (Tamir Trilogy, Book 3) by Lynn Flewelling by John Jude Palencar available and for sale on Brightsurf
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by Lynn Flewelling
by John Jude Palencar
| | List Price: | $7.50 |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 30613 | | Studio: | Spectra | | | Binding: | Mass Market Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 576 | | Publication Date: | June 27, 2006 | | Publisher: | Spectra |
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Product Description
Under the rule of a usurper king, the realm of Skala has suffered famine, plague, and invasion. But now the time for the rightful heir has come, a return to the tradition of warrior queens. And the Lightbearer’s prophecy is to be upheld at last: so long as a daughter of the royal line defends and rules, Skala will never be subjugated.
Now a mystical fire has burned away the male body known as Prince Tobin, revealing Princess Tamír, a girl on the verge of womanhood–and a queen ready to claim her birthright after a life in disguise under the protection of wizards and witches. But will her people, her army–and the friends she was forced to deceive–accept her? Worse, will the crown’s rival heir, friend to Tobin, turn foe to Tamír, igniting civil war in a fierce
battle for Skala? |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 33 reviews)
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The Tamir Trilogy 
The whole set of books is a wonderful fantasy with several twists in the plot to keep the story entertaining.
October 11, 2007 | |
Horrible 
This is the worst book i've red in 5 years. I say red, because a number of books that are as bad as this one i haven't acctualy bothered finishing. However, as this was the third book of a triology i made an extra effort to do it. It wasn't easy, and i've probably all-in-all skipped at least a third of it, but the chore is done at last.
Lynn Flewlling had a really original and interesting idea/main plot, which held the first two books. Unfortunately, that and top notch take on magic is all one can credit her for. Her writting skills are average and she has zero talent in creating charachters. In this whole triology there isn't a single character i cared about in the least. And maybe worst of all is the mind-numbing idiocy of dialoges and retorts the so called characters sprout when they open the mouths. There's just nothing in it, no humor, no play of words, not a spark of inteligence...nothing. Often during this trilogy i had to slam the book into a wall in disguast and irritation of how painfully idiotic the dialoges are. Zero talent.
So you have the biggest thing resloved at the end of the second book, and now we're waiting for the last confotation since there's nothing else to hold the book. Old Lynn knows it two and just wants to wrap it up, but 500 pages have to be written and she has only 50 than can be called decent. Hence another 450 pages of worthless drivel are added and you have The Orcale's Queen.
The only reason i started this series is because my favorite autors, Hobb and Martin, gave it praise (addmitingly to the first book only, which was obviously the best in this wretched series as it had you intrigued by the whole swap, but still only averageif you look at it realisticaly). I don't know what Hobb and Martin were tripping on, weather they were bought or requred by their publishers. If they were honest, it might explain why Hobbs latest series (the shaman thingy)is so bad, and why Martin took so long only to publish his only sub-par ASOFAI book, a Feast for Crows - they have gone insane.
Stay away from this book. It will make you loathe yourself for wasting a day or two of your life to read it. Not many books made me regret reading them, but this one did.
August 03, 2007 | |
wow 
I actually had come to forget about this trilogy--not even recognizing the first book as the ending of a series I started. Too much time had passed between the second and this final book. Because of this I was worried that I would not even remember the characters! And yet, remembering events from the previous two books ended up being no problem at all. Flewelling, apparently, seems to be an expert of reminding the reader of previous events without coming right out and saying--this is what happened. Events were recalled and presented seemlessly throughout the novel. The story flowed and travelled like a river through mountains. There were smooth, safe parts, where the reader got to enjoy the budding love and commitment of Ki and Tamir. Then there was the shifting waters which included the preparation for war. Lastly, the rapids--where the ghost of Brother and Tamir's mother and Korin seem to fighting to distroy Tamir.
I love the way everything was brought together in this final book. I loved reading about the absolute love and commitment of the Companions. And even though I don't think of myself as a romance reader, I loved watching it blossom between Tamir and Ki. The parts in the story where they jump apart guiltily, while everyone else just smiles and waits for them to discover what is so apparent to them was so cute.
June 07, 2007 | |
engrossing
While not as good as the first two books, The Oracle's Queen is still an amazing book. You are drawn into the world of Tamir who grew up a boy, and must now rule a country as a Queen. Wonderfull.
May 12, 2007 | |
A wonderful woman's trilogy
I first read Bone Doll's Twin several years ago and was very disappointed to find out that the next two books were not yet written. I forgot about it and then last year bought the last two and finally read them both in the last week.
I've been haunted (appropriate term I guess) by everything that happened to Tamir in this last novel for the last few days since I finished the book. She felt so real for me, probably because as a reader you feel as though you've grown up with Tobin and felt all the anguish she had to go through as a prince with such a sad and sorrowful family life. The confusion between her and Ki was so heartbreaking and it was very satisfying to finally be able to see Tamir rightful Queen at last.
(no real spoilers there by the way, since writings by Queen Tamir II appear very early in the book)
The themes were very emotional. These books seemed more like a woman's kind of read rather than a male's. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole series, and especially enjoyed the introduction of Mahti and his cleansing ways. The gay theme was MUCH more interesting in this series than the one in Left Hand of Darkness, which I found to be a rather forgettable novel I read in college.
April 23, 2007 | |
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