The Purifying Fire

As there are many mistakes, the book was well written, just poorly edited if edited at all, I loved the book and will read it again

Well written, and in my Kindle version, the amount of grammar and press errors were very few. This story brings to life Chandra Nalaar and Gideon Jura; both reknowned planeswalkers from Magic The Gathering. What is very curious, is that we see both of them behave synchronous and asynchronous with their respective color bonds. This makes the characters more multi-faceted, and thus much more interesting to follow. This was my 5th Magic The Gathering book - before that, I mainly read Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms and the Death Gate Cycle. I must admit, that with the first MtG-book (Arena), I was a bit disappointed. This book, however, is more like the other newer MtG-books I've read (Agents of Artifice and Alara Unbroken). 4 stars of 5; because the book is good and well written; a must-read for MtG-fans (whether of the game or the novels or both), while others might find this book a bit off. ** SPOILER AHEAD ** It is not mentioned in the book anywhere, but the mind mage that Chandra battles, is of course Jace. Why the author has not dwelled more in this, especially because the online comics does, is beyond my understanding. I do however, like Gideon as a character. I read elsewhere, that the author had totally free reigns with Gideon; the only requirement was, that he was a white mage.

Every magic book I've read, I've been at least a little dissapointed. Magic books just never seem quite like a real novel that could hold up on its own without the cards and cult following. While this book is no exception, it is much better then others of the books I have read. The storyline is a little chaotic (which I think comes from trying to write a book about a character in 1 short novel), but Chandra is pretty well developed. However, as the author has made other books that I enjoy very much, I am led to believe it is Wizards editing that ruined the book for me. And yes, this is not just speculation, Wizards edited the book to a fair degree, look it up. What bothers me a bit is how much people enjoy Agents of Artiface, but then dislike this book. Purifying Fire definately better then AoA. I liked Jace back when he was only a magic card, but I feel like that book actually detracted from the personality of the cardboard playing card. Also read: The Thran, The Brothers War, Planeswalker, The Gathering Dark, The Eternal Ice, The Shattered Alliance, Bloodlines, Mercadian Masquerade, Nemesis, Invasion, Planeshift, Apocalypse, and Johan.

I just finished reading this book and really liked it. I think any magic fan would really enjoy it and probably even someone not familiar with magic would find it to be a good read. I'm really enjoying this planeswalker series of books so far. My only problem with the book and the reason I didn't give it 5 stars is the amazing amount of grammatical errors. It's pretty typical for WOC books to have a lot of errors, but this was like nobody even read the book before it went to the printers. It's not a huge deal but it just takes you out of the moment when you have to read something twice because it doesn't make any sense. I would say it happened to me almost every two or three pages. WOC books cost as much as any other book on the shelves, it seems like they could pay to have someone proof read them.