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Title: Out On My Ear
Review: I enjoyed reading most of this book. I burned through it in three or four days, and I'm not a very fast reader. The deaths of major characters were actually a plus for me. I thought they died heroically well, and each instance added to the drama. The central character tensions involving Steel and Palin hold up as well, or better, as that which we've read before involving all the old favorites.It took a very demoralizing ending to pull my rating down as low as it is. "The Age of Mortals" does the trick. My experience of reading this book was like being at a nice party with old and new friends; and then, at the end of the night, getting punched in the gut, kicked out of the house, and told to "never come back!!". The authors might just as well have added a postscript saying "Dear fantasy junkies, The fun is over. Go get a life."I am a believer that all good things come to an end. But, in my opinion, reducing Krynn to Mundania was a poor way to go about it.
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