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The Ashes of Worlds (Saga of Seven Suns 7) | 
 enlarge | Author: Kevin J. Anderson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £12.99
Buy New: £6.17
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 239
Media: Paperback
Pages: 752
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 2
ISBN: 1847370799
EAN: 9781847370792
ASIN: 1847370799
Publication Date: August 4, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: IN STOCK - BRAND NEW - IMMEDIATE DISPATCH
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 Finished - and thats about it September 1, 2008
C. Raeburn (Scotland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Whilst this book resolves all plot lines and manages to bring to an end a complex story with multiple interwoven plot lines, it does so at the cost of style and flair, with the books written structure becoming a vehicle for presenting plot lines rather than a structure that was in any way enjoyable to read.
Other than to finish reading the series I cannot recommend this book. Indeed on balance after the first 3 or 4 of the series, the books become tedious and onerous to read, therefore I would not recommend starting it.
Terrible Format August 28, 2008
Deimos (France)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is not a true paperback but a large print edition (very large - same size as a hardback but without a hard cover). If you have reading difficulties or poor eyesight then this is the book for you. If you want a paperback then forget it.
I enjoyed the previous 6 books in the series but this one was returned unread - as it is just impractical to carry around (e.g. commuting, etc.).
I really is a big print book - why oh why do they waste their time with such impractical formts - they are the same price as the normal sized books !!
 Out with an intriguing whimper... August 22, 2008
B. D. Wilson (UK)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
What a strange book.
I guess Kevin J. Anderson's "The Ashes of Worlds", the final book in his "Saga of Seven Suns", is an improvement over the previous volume, "Metal Swarm", which was action-packed but predictable and not very engrossing. TAOW contains a lot more intrigue, twists and turns - but I was left wishing that some of the action from Metal Swarm had been transferred into this book. In MS there was too much action; in TAOW there was too little. There is only really one major battle in this book, and that lasts a few pages. Everything gets resolved satisfactorily, and not without drama - but the action just isn't very epic compared to what has come before. It seemed like a let-down coming from the final book of such an immense series.
On the positive side, kudos to Anderson for resolving all plotlines in a satisfying way. And we mustn't, of course, forget to applaud him for the sheer AMBITION of what he was attempting to do with this series. Here we have sci-fi on a truly cosmic scale. We have battles between the elements themselves: fire, water, earth. We have whole planets destroyed and even whole suns extinguished as a result of the titanic conflicts waged in this series. That's massive. And the Klikiss robot Sirix was a really great character, in my opinion, and every scene with him in it was brilliantly envisioned.
But make no mistake, I had hoped for better than this from The Ashes of Worlds. Rather than ending the series with a planet-busting bang, TAOW ends it with a wental-water whimper, albeit an occasionally entertaining one.
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