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The Dark River (Fourth Realm Trilogy)

Author: John Twelve Hawks
Publisher: Corgi Books
Category: Book

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Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars

6 reviews
Sales Rank: 1350

Media: Paperback
Pages: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.1 x 1.4

ISBN: 0552153354
EAN: 9780552153355
ASIN: 0552153354

Publication Date: May 5, 2008
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3 out of 5 stars

Good but flawed July 25, 2008
I really enjoyed the first one - The Traveller - and even pressed it onto family and friends and they all loved it too....the ideas ( the off the grid-ness!) was refreshing and unique and also quite believeable too! I think, therefore, that the story should have concluded with the first book and leave it as a stand-alone piece which would have had much more impact. When you start to write sequels the first will always come out on top because it's got the impact and WOW factor that a sequel will ineviatably lack. Also the second one irritated me for some really silly reasons - the first was when Michael was talking to the 'typically English' woman at the meeting and she put cream in her tea! No self-respecting upright English woman would put cream in tea! It's little details like that remind me it's only fiction and I really want to believe!! Silly i know but I really think authors should get these little details right just as much as other aspects of the story. Still a good story though!

2 out of 5 stars

Too much action, too little character July 3, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful

The idea of making a good work of fiction based on the truly scary reality of our surveillance police state society was a good one, but it's a shame that the author couldn't follow through with a credible and interesting story, instead the book was a kind of new age (out of body travelling!) computer game type series of unrealistic actions. I found the idea of women guarding men with swords just pc patronising - women fighting may be a man's dream but to most women it's just boring. Main characters died and it was just a "so what?" moment instead of the shock that a good author can elicit by killing one of their characters. The author certainly is not in Dan Brown's class at all - he doesn't have the knowledge, the intellect or the ability to write a really first class thriller.

5 out of 5 stars

Even better than The Traveller June 18, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

I enjoyed The Traveller finding the writing refreshingly good and I eagerly anticipated The Dark River, the second part of the trilogy. I was not disappointed, I really enjoyed it, especially as large parts of it are set in the British Isles. I found the storyline even more gripping than the original. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and eagerly anticipate the final instalment. Surely there will be more adventures of Maya to come.

4 out of 5 stars

This is a trilogy June 18, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Excellent read, and throughly recommended. Its a mix of fantasy and sci-fi with interesting view on the way we are controlled by governments and society, almost 1984 style.
Dark River is not as good as The Traveller, but only because it doesn't really stand on its own. In fact, I would only recommend this book to people who have read the first book. I think the previous reviewer found this out and preceived there was no story as such, however the Dark River is very much the middle book in the series.

1 out of 5 stars

The Dark River June 9, 2008
1 out of 6 found this review helpful

Tries to create a world to feed our paranoid delusions.
The CCTV in our high street are used by "the great machine" which is controlled by the "Tabula" , a secret society whose aim is to banish the mystical "Travellers" who can travel into different realms and are protected by their body guards the Harlequins.
There is romance , ultra-violence, cyber-punk themes and mystism-- Shame there isn't a story
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