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Re: Featured Official Review: Bard's Exile by Carolyn Gross

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Oh wow, I'm actually considering getting this book now. Great review!
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Nice review. I agree this book had all the right combinations, from the development of characters to the pacing. I really enjoyed reading this book and was completely immersed in the plot itself. This book took me a place much different than my own. Great review, you summed the book up nicely.
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Sound like a good book. I enjoy fictional books with heros who over come their phycical handicaps to win the day. I work with handicap children and always encourage them to keep trying to reach for the moon.
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Wow this books sounds really good. I love fantasy and this sounds like a really fun read.
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Wow great job on the review! Even though I don't usually read fantasy novels, this book sounds great. And after reading the sample, I can tell is it excellently written, as you said. :)
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I'm excited to hear that this story is unique. I sometimes find many fantasy novels to be too similar. Can't wait to take a look at this one. Thanks for the informative review!
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wow! The story looks very inviting. The character MAREK sure looks strong and urges the reader to go on. Thanks for the detailed review.
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chance to escape with a strange blind man comes, she flees the palace, not realizing how little she knows about surviving in the real world.
A blind hero! I want to read more than the sample just to see how that plays out later in the story.
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Is interesting to see author adding their own creative ideas to traditional stories you would often in other fantasy book, this is why no matter how similar two worlds are, they will never be the same. You did a great job with this review, thank you i'm also a fantasy lover.
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I am not usually drawn to the fantasy genre, but this one sounds fantastic! Thank you for the review! When I was checking it out on Amazon, I saw that it has been given perfect 5-star reviews, also! Definitely, a book I should not pass on! Also, I like how you said that it would be good for younger readers. I teach high school, and I think this is a book many of them would enjoy!!
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A Sci-Fantasy is always welcome when it comes to my reading choice. When it comes with such crisp reviews there is little doubt left that one would not want to read it. Congrats on being the BOTD.. :) Well deserved..
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Great review. Marek seems like a very likable character. I look forward to reading this novel.
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Excellent review. I have added this one to my reading list for 2017.
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Fantasy is not a genre I read but your review is very good, if this would be a genre I read, I would be convinced!! Thank you!
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A great review. After reading the sample and the review this looks like a book that I will have to follow up on. Like the reviewer I found the story to be complelling, especially with one of the main characters being blind. It makes for a wonderful twist.
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