I'm very dissapointed in this one. The first 20 pages or so started out nicely, here's a girl and her sick father, knocking on the doors of a castle where ghosts and talking cats are common. Yet after that promising introduction, it's 450 pages of mostly bland/monotonous storyline. And when I say...
• Breaks the rule of show, don't tell. For some strange reason, feels the need to show THEN tell.• Book felt like one big piece of nothing, like it was just the intro for the plot of another book.• Don't dangle a mysterious machine in front of me for one entire book and then not tell me what it i...
I really enjoyed this, despite the fact that much of the main characters' actions are informed by their religion which is something I try to avoid in my fantasy reading.There is quite a bit of graphic description here in discussions of torture and many physical beatings of some of the main charac...
Urgh, I’m so conflicted about this book. It’s not bad, let me get that out there from the start – it’s definitely not bad. What it is is very different from its predecessor, The Poison Throne, which was a book I really enjoyed. I loved the characters and subtleties of the plot in the first instal...
I actually liked this one way better than the first (this is one of those time when I REALLY wish that Goodreads had a larger number of stars--first one would be a 6 and this one would be a 7.5ish, aka not quite 4 stars under the current system. Yeesh Terra, overthink much?). The story kept me on...
The book picks up where the first novel ended; Wynter, alone on the road, hoping to somehow find the hiding Prince Alberon. Fortunately she almost immediately stumbles on the two people she most wants to see, Christopher and Razi, who are secretly traveling in the woods for the exact same purpose...
Adventure and a budding romance... court life follows even into the wilderness as Wynter treks with Razi, Christopher and the Merron to aid in the mission to reunite the Good King Jonathon with his son, Albi. A gifted writer, Celine Kiernan has shown a talent for telling a unique tale of danger, ...
I really loved this series. I really liked the way the story was told. I loved all the characters. And I loved that the setting was familiar - a parallel time. I really did love Wynter's character in the end. I loved Christopher. Alberon grew on me. As did all the other characters. I sugg...
Overall I enjoyed the series and feel that I have to give the series as a whole a 3.5. However, while this book was as engrossing as the last 2, the last chapter threw me. To spend 3 books in the head of only one character (which is the POV I least enjoy, I like to understand the minds of several...