Dec 14 2010
I have read almost all of the SW universe novels… this one wasnt bad… pretty brainless adventure story. Read the entire Legacy series mostly because of the Fett story-line… but overall the entire series was incredibly predictable and a bit lame.
Devoucoux Saddles and Tack? Do you own one?
Hi! I’m looking into buying a devoucoux saddle, because I just bought another horse. These saddles are custom-fitted to the horse, so it would be perfect for me, since I have two horses. I looked on their website, and found all the different Legacy Tack saddle styles. If I do get a new saddle, I would of course want a matching bridle and girth. I looked at the bridles and girths, but none of them are “normal”. There are bridles, but they are either figure 8s or double reined. There is also no straight hunter girths. I want something like this but they don’t have them:http://www.doversaddlery.com/rodrigo-fancy-stitched-bridle/p/X1-12459/cn/79/http://www.doversaddlery.com/pessoa-legacy-split-end-girth/p/X1-021238/cn/98/Is that odd? Do you think if I bought a saddle, I could find other tack to match it? Thanks!
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I enjoyed this book because it goes more into the history of the Blue Bloods. However, this is an angsty teen novel series and if that is not what you are looking for… I really enjoy the relationships and drama. It is a great fun summer read.
So I was behind the ball in reading this book, The Van Alen Legacy, but I finally did, and I’m glad. I’ll start this review by giving you a brief history about my time with this series. I bought the first novel and didn’t enjoy it, but because I was attached to Schuyler and her love triangle I decided to continue reading. Now done with the fourth book in the series, I believe the story has grown. I really enjoy the path it’s gone and I really enjoy the story.
In the fourth installment the book takes place a year after the evens in Rio (from the third novel) and is written from three key character’s points of view: Bliss, Schuyler, and Mimi. When we hear from Bliss we see her character dealing with the fact that she harbors a demon inside herself. She has to deal with that situation, and how she could try to overcome it. Schuyler had to run away with her best friend to try and save herself and attempt to save the coven from the evil Silver Bloods that are trying to overthrow the Blue Bloods, while dealing with her conflicting feelings between her best friend Oliver and her true love Jack. And lastly Mimi is on a mission to find the Watcher who disappeared, kidnapped, and then is thrown back into school while dealing with her duty to bond with Jack, of follow her heart and be with Kingsly.
I have been a critic of this series since I bought the first book a few years ago. I didn’t like the writing style, and I didn’t like the characters. My feelings have actually changed since that first fateful reading. I feel the author has grown as a writer, or maybe I’ve just grown as a reader. In any case, out of all the novels in the series, I enjoyed reading this one the most. I have a feeling it was because of the split attention, being able to know what is going on all around, rather than a solitary focus on Schuyler.
My one criticism of the story is that the reader is not always aware of the timeline because it jumps from person to person. The only way you are able to know what time has passed with when the characters explicitly state it’s been such and such time since when such and such event happened. Sometimes I was confused, but for the most part I was able to make it through because the plot was compelling.
Overall this book was a great read, and by far the best in the series.
This book was awful! I was so excited when it came out because we would learn about Allegra and more and was sorely dissapointed. She completely went in another direction and destroyed the series…dissapointment.
I liked the first two books in the series, the third one was OK, but this fourth book in the series just went totally downhill.
Schuyler and Oliver are on the run and have been so for a year from the NY Conclave. We don’t even get to see what has happened during this whole year. We’re just told it’s a year later. And each chapter is named after certain character, mostly the three girls: Schuyler, Bliss and Mimi and tells us what each of them have been up to.
I lost interest immediately in the beginning of the book when I read that Bliss had been out of school for an entire year, and nobody was suspicious of her. I mean, this girl was once under investigation for being a Silver Blood and all, but nothing happens when she misses school for one year. OK? And, oh yeah, Bliss is possessed by the devil whom she calls “the Visitor.” WTH? Just very weird and all. She doesn’t even try to warn anyone when Lucifer lets her get control of her body after a whole year. Get this, instead she opts to go to the salon to get her hair done and do pilates? Like really? This after she knows that she killed the so-called love of her life, Dylan, while she was possessed. Again, WTH?
Speaking of the Silver Bloods, what will they do after they drink every last Blue Blood? There are only 400 hundred Blue Bloods in existence, and many have died because of the Silver Bloods. And we are told that Silver Bloods cannot drink Red Bloods because it would harm them. They can only drink from other vampires. So what will they do when they run out of Blue Bloods? It’s just another bizarre fact out of many that is added in the series, which really doesn’t make much sense. These things ought to be better thought out.
Now let’s get to Mimi who is now a Venetor and hunting the bad guys with Kingsley and two other Blue Blood twins. They’re two male twins, so I guess no bonding for same sex vampire twins? She is also developing a crush on Kingsley, which seems forced and stupid. It is just a way to find a happy ending for all the characters in the story in the end. Lame. And they sleep together and then he ends up sacrificing himself. But who knows? Giving the author’s need to give everyone a happy ending, Kingsley will probably come back. Again, lame.
Finally, let’s get to Schuyler, who is the main character in the series and has got to be one of the most unlikeable characters ever. I don’t see anything about her that would make her an unique character. Heck, her nemesis, Mimi, is more likable than her. She is stupid and has no pride. I mean, this is the same girl that was in love with Jack and sneaking around with him while he ignored her plenty of times and was still with his vampire soulmate, Mimi. For all intents and purposes, she was the “other woman.” Very stupid. And how is that supposed to be romantic? Leaving your soulmate for someone new? How does that work then? That a person has more than one soulmate? If Schuyler ends up being with Jack in the end and Mimi with Kingsley, this series will suck even more. But it looks like that is where the author seems to be going with this. There is also no chemistry whatsoever between her and Jack. Jack seems like a jerk and her friend, Oliver, who is in love with her is really the nicer guy. Plus, Jack used to be in love with her mother? Really? Ewwwwww. Maybe he only likes her because she reminds him of her mother, Allegra. No girl would want to be with a guy that used to be in love with her mother. Schuyler needs to get this info pronto. She’s so clueless. And we are led to believe that this is the idiot that is supposed to save the day and everything? It’s just very far fetched and all.
This book really sucked from beginning to end. I was disappointed because the first two books were really good. But now it’s become very predictable and stupid. It’s obvious which ending the author is angling for, and it’s a lame one where all the main characters will get a happy ending.
Save time and money by not bothering to read this travesty of a novel.
The other reviewer has a point. It is very noteworthy that in the first chapter, for example, there is much more detail about the religion Islam and its leader. There is actually 1 page about Muhammad and the spread of Islam and another page about the Muslim culture. It goes into detail as to how Muhammad made his living and details of what he reported (regarding what “Allah” told him). There are absolutely no details like that about Jesus.
There is essentially one paragraph (page 17) that mentions the rise of Christianity and Jesus of Nazareth. Besides that, there is info regarding the schism in the Christian Church as well as info regarding the structure of and its role in the government.
Personally, I think it really could be a symptom of the sad bias going on in this country today. I would have given the book 5 stars if it weren’t for the above complaint. I’m sure it’s hard to please all the people…
I do think they covered the U.S. invasion of Iraq very fairly. They kept it simple and factual.
**Other positive things about this book are: I think it is very organized and easy to read; the pictures are beautiful, and I like the website that supplements the book. Also, important terms are highlighted in yellow, which is really helpful to the student, and there is a “skills handbook” section w/ info. regarding test taking skills and writing and speaking skills. There are many other informative sections in the book. I wish all history (and science) books were structured like this one.
In fairness to the publisher and authors, it is made clear in the beginning of the book that historians may make different “historical judgements” and stress the importance of looking at history as an “argument.”
Overall, I think this is a VERY good book. They had a lot of information to cover, and they did it in a very colorful, organized way– and I appreciate that.
You might want to read the Washington Times article on how certain public school history books are distorted by groups who get to decide what goes into them. In this particular case you have a muslim group with documented links to terrorist groups telling the publishers what to write concerning islam and other religions.
“”Holt’s World History,” where one can read that Moses claimed to receive the Ten Commandments from God, but Muhammad simply “received” the Koran from God. In the textbook “Pearson’s World Civilizations,” the book instructs that Jesus of Nazareth is “believed by Christians to be the Messiah”- which would be a fine comparative religion study observation if the book didn’t also disclose that Muhammad “received revelations from Allah.”
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“McDougal Littell’s World Cultures and Geography,” which relates that “Judaism is a story of exile” and that “Christians believe that Jesus was the promised Messiah,” but that the Koran “is the collection of God’s revelations to Muhammad.” As “The Trouble with Textbooks” makes only too clear, one instance could perhaps be overlooked, but in fact there is a consistent, malicious practice that Islam – and only Islam – is repeatedly described in numerous prominent public school textbooks as historical truth. In those textbooks, Christianity and Judaism are equally consistently described as mere notions of their believers. “
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/23/teaching-religion/
I refer the reader to my review of the teacher’s edition. I am very pleased with this textbook, and my students are enjoying it.
As to the complaints about the world religion sections, I think these are quibbles, but I am happy they have been pointed out nonetheless. But I don’t think the qualifying language concerning Christ, for example, is fatal or necessarily demonstrative of bias. I did not think Mohammed, to use another example, was presented as an exemplar as compared to the other major religious figures. No significant Hindu religious figures (apart from squibs on the major devas) were mentioned at all, by way of comparison. I think a little more space is devoted to him simply because, having come much later than Jesus or the Buddha, we know a little more about him since writing and record-keeping were more developed by the time he started his religious career. But that’s hardly a promotion. I found overall treatments to be quite even-handed. And, of course the early Moslems get a little more “room at the table” early on because with the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates, rickety as they were, they did form, more of less, the first “multiethnic” religious-political empire that began the slow process of re-connecting up India, China, and Europe as an unintended consequence of the Arab conquests, with the Crusades as an additional “spur” to global development and trade until the Ottomans, Mongols, and ocean-and river going Europeans supplanted them in new patterns of cultural and economic exchange.
Still, I think the wise teacher will take scrupulous care to avoid any value judgments, and if any are perceived in the text, they can be easily corrected in classroom instruction. It’s hard with the major religious leaders and founders since they always “hit close to home.” Personally, I always make the point that looking at a religious figures clear-eyed based on “what we know or reasonably think we know” has nothing to do with faith or the miraculous, and should not. That belongs to the individual and should remain between the student, his parents, and their family religious traditions, if any. In truth, if I have one problem with “Human Legacy” it is the sometime rather gross simplification of religious and ethical systems. The Confucian section in particular could have really used some more detail.
The pictures are beautiful, the interactive website helpful, and I echo the praise of the “four star” reviewer in this thread. Very solid and well constructed book, too, highly resistant to the everyday action of the typical active teen. But watch for page inversion printer’s errors. I believe Holt will replace defective texts.
Recommend.
First of all, let me tell you that this ending, while getting a lot of negative reviews is actually quite good. If you take the story that is presented, the characterization which develops, the pacing, and overall movement, this is a very good book. If you look at this book as merely a means to tie up a million loose ends, well, you are out of luck. This series has been hindered with enough loose frayed ends to a million threads already. I feel that this clean, streamlined approach to the ending left me more than satisfied about the primaries, and good enough about the tangents. While there have been stories left unsaid in this ending, Troy basically said, let’s finish this series, and let me write a good book at the same time. His approach, I feel, was the only way to accomplish this goal.
Basically, the Legacy of the Force series teaches us that the Sith Lord gene always skips a generation, and that dark apprentices can sometimes be turned around. It teaches us that 14 year old boys can sometimes find themselves in the difficult position of choosing between torture and seduction or keeping your integrity intact. It teaches us that a lot of interesting ideas in the use of the force can sometimes fizzle out like fireworks which look great for a time, and then disappear. It teaches us that Luke, indeed, has not suffered enough. It teaches us that Han and Leia have also, not suffered enough. It teaches us that Boba Fett has feelings, if not quite a heart. It teaches us that having the biggest gun in the galaxy as a plot device is simply too powerful, and needs to implode itself. It teaches us a lot of things, but I feel the most important lesson I learned is that I don’t like multiple-author series. They just don’t work. Stick with one author. This is my new motto.
Still, I rate this book 4 stars. As a stand alone book, it is a good read. In terms of tying-up-loose-ends-expectations, it might not be all you dreamed it would be. But if it did tie up everything, the book would have been a huge morass of bad writing. Like staring at a mosaic, with each piece a detailed story. Something that gives you a headache. This series didn’t deserve its loose ends tied up. What it needed was a good book.
It got one.