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Blaze that behemoth!

Advantages: Complex, involving read, very powerful
Disadvantages: Extremely long - I got library fines again

Imagine if you were in the middle of World War 2, but instead of tanks, there were huge creatures called behemoths. Instead of fighter planes, there were dragons. Leviathans instead of submarines, magical energy instead of electricity, ley lines instead ...

aphrablack 25.08.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Into the Darkness - Harry Turtledove

Lose yourself in another world

Advantages: Highly absorbing. Not highly sci-fi.
Disadvantages: Very, very, long. Complex. Adult only. One long book not 6.

...up this book by accident as part of a job lot. I am now part way through the sixth book in the series simultaneously happy and disappointed to be getting to the end. Be warned. If you get into this book you will get very little sleep until you ...

chris.casey 02.02.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Into the Darkness - Harry Turtledove

Reading got better when I read this.

Advantages: Good read
Disadvantages: Long, adult content

This is the first book in a series by Harry Turtledove It is an account of world war two on another planet. Instead of tanks and bombers they have behmoths and dragons etc... But the general theme is still there throughout. You get the full s ...

MerryDanmas 27.11.2002 · Read full review
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Review of Into the Darkness - Harry Turtledove

Marooned in Time.

Advantages: Absorbingly good read
Disadvantages: Bit too long and wordy at times.

...The basic premise of the books and there are three in the series ,is this. Mysterious forces in the space-time continuum throw the island of Nantucket and all its inhabitants back through some 3000 years of time,landing them smack on the edge of Bronze Ag ...

bwanamdevu 14.09.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Island in the Sea of Time (Nantucket) - S.M. Stiriling