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| The Dark River (Fourth Realm Trilogy) | 
 enlarge | Author: John Twelve Hawks
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 239413
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reprint
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Pages: 432
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Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.4
ISBN: 0307389235
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780307389237
Publication Date: June 24, 2008
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The Dark River Review.. Ronald Brown April 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hello,
I want to say that this book was a real page turner. A great continuation from the last book and the story line is fantastic with good twists and turns.
However, and this is just be my opinion, but this book felt very short compared to the first one, and I cant help but feel a little cheated that's why iv only given it three star's.
The character development is excellent as you find Maya slowly becoming slightly less cold and a little more human. And the inclusion of prominent groups such as the free runners gives the book an extra feel of realism that people can relate to in their lives and say "oh yeh, iv heard about those people (free runners), I wonder if they really are involved in a conspiracy". So it gives you more to connect with in the book and draws you in much better, or at least it did for me.
Overall I really enjoyed it but I felt that it was a little short compared to the first.
 Still a good read April 12, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
While I feel some of the previous reviews are a little harsh, I can certainly sympathise with some of their points.
I thought The Traveller was a crackin' book and was really looking forward to the second volume of the trilogy. Not a lot seems to happen in this book and when it does it seems to be rushed, particularly the bit in Berlin, but having said that, I still enjoyed the book and found it hard to put down.
Maybe JTH is saving the best until last? Roll on the concluding book.
 Excellent Sequel March 21, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the second book in the fourth realm trilogy. I stated of the first book, The Traveler, that it was "the best fiction book I had read in a decade!" This book is a very close second. John Twelve Hawks weaves an unforgettable tale of suspense and drama that will draw you in and captivate you in a way that few other authors achieve. Hawks helps us to look at our world in a whole new light, and gives an entirely new meaning to the term 'Big Brother is Watching'.
This book continues a year after The Traveler finished, and once the action starts, it does not end. The action races at breakneck speed and reads like 'a post 9/11 conspiracy theory meets 1984'. Hawks shows a world where people are collectively selling their freedoms for a perceived peace or security. With a story as unique as the Matrix, and the captivating writing unlike anybody else, Hawks serves up a masterpiece.
There are four main categories of people in these books: Civilians, who go about their daily lives, Travelers who can send their life force from their body to alternate realms, The Harlequins who are trained warriors dedicated to protecting the Travelers, and finally The Brethren, as they call themselves, who wish to create a system of control over the whole world, a virtual Panopticon. This group is called, 'The Tabula', by their enemies.
The Tabula are trying to achieve their Panopticon through computer surveillance - RFID chips in what we buy and in our ID and credit cards. Their only goal is to make the human race homogeneous and dominated by the belief that they must behave a certain way because they are always being watched. For the first time in history, a Traveler, Michael Corrigan, is working with the Brethren and trying to conquer the only other surviving travelers -his brother Gabriel, and his father Matthew, who has been missing for 15 years since the Tabula attacked the family home.
Both of the brothers are searching for their long-lost father, both are trying to figure out how to use their ability as travelers, and both believe they are on the right side. Only by reading will you find out what will happen in this battle of wills and battle between light and darkness.
This is a book masterfully written that will draw in readers from all walks of life and of all ages. Read it and see if you cannot hardly wait for your friends to read it, so that you can discuss it and debate it. It will also have you looking very differently at all the cameras that capture our images hundreds of times a day.
Hawks has written another bestseller that will surprise you, stun you and amaze you, both with the story and the way it is told.
(First published in Imprint 2007-07-17 in the book review column.)
Excellent Sequel March 21, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the second book in the fourth realm trilogy. I stated of the first book, The Traveler, that it was "the best fiction book I had read in a decade!" This book is a very close second. John Twelve Hawks weaves an unforgettable tale of suspense and drama that will draw you in and captivate you in a way that few other authors achieve. Hawks helps us to look at our world in a whole new light, and gives an entirely new meaning to the term 'Big Brother is Watching'.
This book continues a year after The Traveler finished, and once the action starts, it does not end. The action races at breakneck speed and reads like 'a post 9/11 conspiracy theory meets 1984'. Hawks shows a world where people are collectively selling their freedoms for a perceived peace or security. With a story as unique as the Matrix, and the captivating writing unlike anybody else, Hawks serves up a masterpiece.
There are four main categories of people in these books: Civilians, who go about their daily lives, Travelers who can send their life force from their body to alternate realms, The Harlequins who are trained warriors dedicated to protecting the Travelers, and finally The Brethren, as they call themselves, who wish to create a system of control over the whole world, a virtual Panopticon. This group is called, 'The Tabula', by their enemies.
The Tabula are trying to achieve their Panopticon through computer surveillance - RFID chips in what we buy and in our ID and credit cards. Their only goal is to make the human race homogeneous and dominated by the belief that they must behave a certain way because they are always being watched. For the first time in history, a Traveler, Michael Corrigan, is working with the Brethren and trying to conquer the only other surviving travelers -his brother Gabriel, and his father Matthew, who has been missing for 15 years since the Tabula attacked the family home.
Both of the brothers are searching for their long-lost father, both are trying to figure out how to use their ability as travelers, and both believe they are on the right side. Only by reading will you find out what will happen in this battle of wills and battle between light and darkness.
This is a book masterfully written that will draw in readers from all walks of life and of all ages. Read it and see if you cannot hardly wait for your friends to read it, so that you can discuss it and debate it. It will also have you looking very differently at all the cameras that capture our images hundreds of times a day.
Hawks has written another bestseller that will surprise you, stun you and amaze you, both with the story and the way it is told.
(First published in Imprint 2007-07-17 in the book review column.)
 Also Really, Really Bad December 29, 2007
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
Well, John Twelve Hawks, or J12H to his mates, has done it again... Another load of worthless drivel. What can I say apart from that?
As with the first episode, this is written more like a screen play than a book. Obviously J12H is desperate for a movie deal, and missing out effort of writing a book, and then having to write the screen also.But if they made Brown's Code into a film, which was much worse, then why not?
Even less character and plot development than the first book, presumably because there is no more plot to be had, and the characters have all been introduced. And with the bigger budget, after the first blockbuster movie, J12H is really splashing out on SFX.
And in case you have very short term memory, the plot is explained at the start of every chapter, and whenever any of the main characters are mentioned. And sometimes just for the hell of it.
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