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Title	:	Rhapsody: Child of Blood (Symphony of Ages #1)
Author	:	Elizabeth Haydon
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 656 pages
Published	:	June 15th 2000 by Tor Fantasy (first published September 4th 1999)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. High Fantasy. Epic Fantasy

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The brilliant new saga is born ... Rhapsody is a woman, a Singer of some talent, who is swept up into events of world-shattering import. On the run from an old romantic interest who won't take no for an answer, Rhapsody literally bumps into a couple of shady characters: half-breeds who come to her rescue in the nick of time. Only the rescue turns into an abduction, and Rhapsody soon finds herself dragged along on an epic voyage, one that spans centuries and ranges across a wonder-filled fantasy world-- a world so real you can hear the sweet music of Rhapsody's aubade and smell the smoldering forges deep within the Cauldron.

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Original Title:	Rhapsody: Child of Blood
ISBN:	0812570812 (ISBN13: 9780812570816)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Symphony of Ages #1

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Ratings: 3.96 From 18617 Users | 556 Reviews

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DNFed at page 49. A fourteen-year-old royal-born boy is sent one thousand years backward in time, is completely unfazed by this process, instantly falls in love with The Most Beautiful and Obviously Intelligent Girl Ever in the History of Ever, and obviously they're soulmates, so it's totally cool that they have lots of sex. Oh, did I mention that they meet and sleep together on the night before her fourteenth birthday? Gosh, how utterly romantic, and obviously the truest and most important love

I read the first 20 pages and decided this is not for me. No doubt you will think me irresponsible for judging an almost 700 page book on the strength of the first 20 pages but I have often found that if it's mushy on page one, it's going to be extra mushy on page 101. So nope. I mean, if you don't mind overblown melodramatic love confessions twenty minutes after one person has met another, you won't mind this book. But he calls his soul mate, his wife right after he meets her. Also, this book

If you're anything like me, you'll occasionally end up finishing a book that contains characters you absolutely hate that put themselves in the most ridiculous and over the top unbelievable situations. Those characters that you'd like to enter the book just so you could punch/shake them because they're so annoyingly stupid. I like to call it hate reading. Well, this series was like that for me. I've forgotten hundreds of books over the years but not these, no. I'll never forget how anger

Second ReviewRead: January 2, 2012 - January 13, 20122.5 - 3 starsSecond Review in progressI reread this book for Romance Lovers for the Challenge-Impaired Group Series Read in order to refresh my memory to properly read Book 2. Having been exposed to much of the story and knowing what to expect, this read went more smoothly for me. I was less impatient. I was able to get a better feeling for the world-building. I appreciated the mythology. I found the magic system as interesting and as flawed

All of my original opinions from my status update still stand. I made it to page 50 and officially had to give up. I found myself skimming to try to block out some of the horrible cheesiness, and still I got tired of the taste of bile in the back of my throat from where I kept trying not to vomit from the totally false character interactions & the awful hyperbole. I stole this from "Jocelyn Zombie's" review, because it was oh, so perfect that I couldn't have said it better myself:"The Ugly:

This is a DNF at 60% or so. I just can't get past the constant 'I get a boner every time I look at her and it's her fault for being so hot' thing. I can't. And I don't really like any of the characters so.

I absolutely adore this series. The characters are great, the world-building is AMAZEBALLS, and even my dad likes it (and my dad hates everything except LOTR).