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    Sidney Sheldon’s Mistress of the Game

    Written by Sidney Sheldon and Tilly Bagshawe

    Narrated by Karen Ziemba

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    About this audiobook

    The spellinbinding sequel to Sidney Sheldon’s Master of the Game. One of most glamorous and suspenseful tales ever told…

    It began with Jamie MacGregor, stealing diamonds in Africa. It continued with his daughter, the powerful Kate Blackwell who grew her father’s company into a world wide conglomerate, Now the story passes to the next generation.

    Spanning the decades and picking–up exactly where Sidney Sheldon’s bestselling Master of the Game finished, Mistress of the Game follows the Blackwell family as they, Love, and lose, scheme and murder through the 80’s up until the present day.

    Heart–stopping and glamorous, tense and provactive, Mistress of the Game is the sequel that Sheldon fans have been waiting for…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateAug 6, 2009
    ISBN9780007333165
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    Sidney Sheldon’s Mistress of the Game
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    Sidney Sheldon

    Sidney Sheldon is the mega-selling international author of seventeen bestselling novels and one autobiography. There are now over 275 million copies of his books in print worldwide and he features in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s most translated author. He is also a highly acclaimed, award-winning scriptwriter for stage, film and television. He died in 2007 at the age of 89.

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    • 5/5
      A fantastic read....gripping till the end. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
    • 4/5
      A fairly satisfying conclusion to the Empire trilogy. The middle part did feel a bit padded, like a video game where the character seems to do a series of quests just to waste time. But the authors execute fantasy tropes fairly well and the main and supporting characters are well-drawn. It is well plotted and thwarts the reader's expectations as to where the story goes. They probably could have spent less time on Mara and a bit more on the characters who turn out to be the main antagonists.
    • 4/5
      Derde deel uit deze sub-reeks.

      Erg veel verdriet in dit boek.
      Mara wordt achtervolgd door drama, rampen en tegenslagen. De eerste is al zo heel erg, dat Mara een aantal ernstige misstappen doet. Daarna veel politieke intriges, waarbij het me soms duizelde van de namen van clans, huizen en hun verbindingen. De hele politieke wereld van het Keizerrijk is mij nu, na de trilogie gelezen te hebben nog steeds niet goed duidelijk.

      Het begin van dit boek maakte gelijk al een diepe indruk. De impact die het had op de personages en het verhaal waren heel erg groot. Verder in het boek nog zo'n tragische gebeurtenis. Gedurende een 100-tal pagina's was er genoeg actie om me in het verhaal te houden. Het einde van het boek was al erg voorspelbaar. Hoop in de komende boeken nog wel wat meer te lezen over de nieuwe keizer en zijn familie.

      Een punt van kritiek is dat er teveel plots in het verhaal zitten, die misschien beter tot hun recht hadden gekomen in een eigen boek.
    • 4/5
      After three months, I am done with the Empire Trilogy and am looking forward to diving further into the Riftwar Cycle. If you're at all interested in Feist's work and the rest of the Riftwar Cycle, start with the Riftwar Saga Trilogy before you read the Empire Trilogy. It'll provide background info, I was lacking while reading it. It's not absolutely necessary but it'll add depth to the world.I would hate to spoil anyone on this lovely trilogy, which is why I'll keep the plot info to a minimum. The trilogy is set in a world inspired by Asia. There's not a lot of magic, instead it's all about intrigue and politics.Mara is possibly the best female fantasy character I've encountered so far. She kicks ass, is intelligent, cunning and the entire tale is one big chess game filled with politics and betrayal. Mara does not use strength and violence to win this game but her wit.The entire cast of characters is well developed. The villains are intriguing and relatable.I enjoyed every part of this trilogy, even the romance. In fact this had a romance that warmed my heart and made me happy. (Rare, I'm usually grumpy!)Recommended to everyone who likes either Feist or Wurts, and who enjoys witty politicians betraying each other.
    • 4/5
      This is the final instalment in the Kelewan books set in the Midkemia series and is, probably the most innovative in some ways and yet most rushed in others.Having defeated many of the Lords arrayed against her, Mara finds herself faced by some of the most powerful enemies she's faced in her rise to prominence. When her eldest son is killed by an assassin's weapon, she sends her spy master after the leader of the Tong that had carried out the hit where he finds that he does have an unexpected weakness when he falls in love with a woman of the reed life. Tasked by Mara to attempt to gain entry into the Assembly of the Great Ones, Arakasi finds a foe greater even than his immense skills can overcome. Needing a way to overcome the ban that the Assembly had placed on her confrontation with the Anastasi Mara delves deeply into the past treaties between her people and the Cho-Ja queens and it is here that she learns of an ancient compact and alien beauties.Politically, things come to a violent head when the emperor is assassinated and the Great Houses are forced to make their moves - as you may guess from the title, you know who won the race!It's probably the crowning and acceptance of Mara's child as the new emperor that so speedily ends this trilogy that is the weakest part of this book but by this stage, both authors quite likely didn't feel like writing much more about Kelewan, and it rarely has such a great role in any more of the books set in the Midkemia universe.
    • 4/5
      Long book. And one third through I wondered why it was written (slow, fluffy, and seemingly unnecessary), so I set it aside. After pushing into the second third, it got better, and with but a few head shaking passages in the last third, a satisfactory conclusion to the Empire Trilogy in my Year of Feist.
    • 4/5
      This would be my favourite of the three, but still, I found some parts rather dull. However, there were more parts in this that held my attention compared to the first two. So overall, I quite enjoyed it.
    • 5/5
      This trilogy, while set in the 'other' universe, is a wonderful addition to the Riftwar series. 
    • 4/5
      Phew, finally finished it. I don't know why I had such trouble, but I buckled down for about 6 hours and finished it, and am very satisfied with the entire series. Well actually, almost completely satisfied. The ending seemed a bit trite and cliched, with her separating neatly from Hokanu and ended up with her barbarian lover, but all in all a good ride.
    • 2/5
      I found this third volume of the trilogy the most boring and trite of the three. I ended up skimming the second half. The ending was so goody goody. This trilogy had been recommended by the author Bernard Cornwall on his website so I thought it would be much better than it was.
    • 5/5
      Vast, epic conclusion to the Empire series tying up all the loose ends so dramatically ripped free by Pug in Magician so long ago. After her promotion to Servant of the Empire, Mara has been enjoying a few years of peaceful life. Still missing her barbarian lover Kevin, she has married and is comfortable and secure. Her heir is growing up and enjoying the freedoms she has one for him. When he is cruelly murdered in an obscure act of politics, Mara realises that she can no longer ignore the contradictions inhernt in the Tsuarmi codes of honour - Kevin's irreverant point of view begins to make sense. However her acts are bulked by the Great Ones who don't uphold change. Mara considers what no-one else in the Empire has ever done, is ti possible to defy the Great Ones and survive? This is a very long book, but unlike the preceeding volume, it never feels like it. Completely gripping all the way through. Intricately detailed, absorbingly complex, wonderfully told it has everything, struggles, greed, honour and redemption, and a great big massive climactic finish. There are one or two very minor plot issues - why don't the Great Ones notice Mara being saved from the Cho-Ja hive? and a couple of other instances of the Great Ones not being either as clever or as powerful as a reader might expect - but this is probably deliberate because they are intended to be only human, unlike Pug. The other discordant note is that our westernised concepts are inherently better than other world views held by other cultures - I don't think that this series, unlike some fantasy, intends to cast a shadow against the real world, but if it did the message would be clear.Don't be scared by the number of words. Go and read it.
    • 4/5
      Good book, slow start but by the half-way point things were moving right along. Mara had here hands full this time. Once agian she loses loved ones close to her which only strengthens her resolve to see change come to the Tsurani culture. Over all a good book and a good story though the end was a little bit happy ever after.