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A Hero Born (1997)

A Hero Born (1997)

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3.8 of 5 Votes: 5
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ISBN
0061056804 (ISBN13: 9780061056802)
Language
English
Publisher
harper fantasy

About book A Hero Born (1997)

In many ways this was a typical fantasy novel. The story seems based on a typical dungeon crawl, and the acknowledgements by the author bear that out. However the world is an imaginative one divided between a realm of chaos full of monsters and dark magic, while the other half is normal. Those exposed to the chaos realm changed and mutated by it. An evil sorcerer finds a way over the ward wall that separates chaos and normal realms. There he grabs a mystical weapon, with which he plans to resurrect dead warriors of his race! The hero of this story has trained his whole life to walk in his father's footsteps as a chaos rider, a warrior trained to go into the chaos realm in an effort to hold the chaos warriors and powers back! Soon, he is sent to stop the coming resurrection of evil beings! The author tells a mediocre story set in a wonder-filled world. The manner in which he weaves the game of chess into the story is clever and imaginative and the final resolution shows that the author had a clear path from the beginning of the book to the end. This ending and the hints that were seeded throughout allow me to bump up my rating a notch. Well done, even if it is just a dungeon crawl!

it feels like it took forever to get through this book. I first read it years ago and held on to my copy because I really liked it. reading through it again, it's still a good book but the problems with it become more noticeable. the imagry is very vivid but tends to go on and on. and the dialog tends to be a bit stiff. the most interesting thing, and what I remembered most over the years, was the twist at the end. knowing it was coming didn't really ruin the story but made the authors attempts at forshadowing seem pretty obvious... then the last twenty pages or so is filled with totally unnecessary explaination.

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I'm about 2/3rd of the way through, and I'm not going to bother finishing this. There's much more on my shelf that I'd rather get to.It started out really well with an interesting premise, having the chaos behind the wall, and introducing characters and a realm warped by it but so little was done with it, as it was just brushed aside as "evil, destroy it."So many exceptions to the world were used just for the sake of pushing the plot and main character forward. We're told early on and numerous times how important badges are and how they demote respect in this world; but then the main character is allowed to access to situations and given responsibility far outside his ranking. Everyone just agrees with him, and moves along behind him.Eye-rolling, trite, and worst of all, mostly boring.
—Matthew

I really liked this book. I didn't give it five stars because half way through the book they still hadn't even assembled a team to send to Chaos. When they finally got to Chaos and their first battle, I felt like there were only 50 pages left, so it felt like the rest of the story was a bit rushed. For a while there, I thought for sure that there would be a sequel to the book. So I docked a star for the book making me question the length of the book. Despite that, I really liked the author's descriptions. I felt like I was right there in the action, learning about the Chaos world as Lachlan was learning it. I would have never guessed the ending.
—Shelli

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