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blodeuedd's review
3.0
To be honest, from this titles I expected more sea time and maybe pirates, I mean sea is in the title too.
Anyway, Jenna is fleeing her evil husband and she knows she needs to learn tot take care of herself. Not easy for a woman who do not know what money is, or anything else.
She meets a friend (ohh name dropping, nice!).
And moves further and further away. She learns to fight, and I am certain she will learn to love again too. Gosh, I sure hope so!
But, it is a novella, and I do feel like book 1 and 2 could have been one book. I haaaaaaate waiting, and now i have to wait again!! Luckily the blurb for book 3 was up so I could get an inkling to what was happening. Of course I always want to move forward in time to where the other books take place and see how it all turned out. Aarghh, I haaaate waiting!
Truly a book of finding yourself and raising above everything you were taught.
Anyway, Jenna is fleeing her evil husband and she knows she needs to learn tot take care of herself. Not easy for a woman who do not know what money is, or anything else.
She meets a friend (ohh name dropping, nice!).
And moves further and further away. She learns to fight, and I am certain she will learn to love again too. Gosh, I sure hope so!
But, it is a novella, and I do feel like book 1 and 2 could have been one book. I haaaaaaate waiting, and now i have to wait again!! Luckily the blurb for book 3 was up so I could get an inkling to what was happening. Of course I always want to move forward in time to where the other books take place and see how it all turned out. Aarghh, I haaaate waiting!
Truly a book of finding yourself and raising above everything you were taught.
timitra's review
4.0
Exile Of The Seas pretty much picked up where the first book ended and it's a mix of things I'd hoped would happen and others that I didn't see coming. I loved that Jenna came into her own more or less in this book, shedding her naive skin and growing a fiercer, warrior-like covering. I cannot wait to see what book three brings, there are a few things I hope happen one of them is that Jenna becomes more confident in herself and her abilities. I definitely recommend this series.
ARC provided by publisher through Net Galley
ARC provided by publisher through Net Galley
diaryofthebookdragon's review
5.0
A hint of greatness to come from [b:Prisoner of the Crown|38089433|Prisoner of the Crown (The Chronicles of Dasnaria, #1)|Jeffe Kennedy|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1521997205l/38089433._SY75_.jpg|61130507] is delivered here in full and then some. I LOVED this book. It had everything.
❤ Self-growth
❤ Cute pets
❤ Interesting cultures
❤ Well developed characters
❤ Great descriptions
❤ A lot of action
I can not find anything wrong here. Now I wish Jeffe Kennedy always wrote books that do not center their plot on the romance between two main characters.
❤ Self-growth
❤ Cute pets
❤ Interesting cultures
❤ Well developed characters
❤ Great descriptions
❤ A lot of action
I can not find anything wrong here. Now I wish Jeffe Kennedy always wrote books that do not center their plot on the romance between two main characters.
chllybrd's review against another edition
4.0
The Chronicles of Dasnaria series continues to be character driven with EXILE OF THE SEAS.
I loved the addition of a few new big characters in EXILE OF THE SEAS. Kaja was a big part of the story although she wasn't really present for a majority of it. Her influence and belief in Jenna set Jenna on a course that not only changed her future, but made her so much stronger than she was before and allowed her to really expand as a character. Ochieng kinda snuck up on my heart. I didn't think much of him when we met him, but he ended up having so much depth and character as a person that by the end of the story, I couldn't imagine the story without him in it. We also get a little bit of romance. It snuck up in the background, but it was still a nice addition to the story.
A lot of big things happens in book two, but surprisingly, the most powerful part of EXILE OF THE SEAS for me was when Ivariel met Violet the elephant. What a beautiful moment all around. Violet isn't the only elephant that steals hearts though. Their addition to the story was beautifully done.
I think the author could have ended the story with EXILE OF THE SEAS, but I admit I'm interested to see what will happen next for Ivariel and her new friends.
* This book was provided free of charge from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
I loved the addition of a few new big characters in EXILE OF THE SEAS. Kaja was a big part of the story although she wasn't really present for a majority of it. Her influence and belief in Jenna set Jenna on a course that not only changed her future, but made her so much stronger than she was before and allowed her to really expand as a character. Ochieng kinda snuck up on my heart. I didn't think much of him when we met him, but he ended up having so much depth and character as a person that by the end of the story, I couldn't imagine the story without him in it. We also get a little bit of romance. It snuck up in the background, but it was still a nice addition to the story.
A lot of big things happens in book two, but surprisingly, the most powerful part of EXILE OF THE SEAS for me was when Ivariel met Violet the elephant. What a beautiful moment all around. Violet isn't the only elephant that steals hearts though. Their addition to the story was beautifully done.
I think the author could have ended the story with EXILE OF THE SEAS, but I admit I'm interested to see what will happen next for Ivariel and her new friends.
* This book was provided free of charge from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
alexiachantel's review
5.0
Love, love, loved this journey from Jenna to Ivariel. A remarkable telling considering the main character holds a vow of silence through the majority of the book.
Copy courtesy of NetGalley. Full review to come closer to pub date.
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Copy courtesy of NetGalley. Full review to come closer to pub date.
http://www.readingbetweenthewinesbookclub.com
audiobookmel's review
5.0
Review originally posted at BooksOfMyHeart.net.
4.5 stars
In this second book in the The Chronicles of Dasnaria series by Jeffe Kennedy, we continue on the journey of Princess Jenna who is hiding from her abusive husband, which takes her out of the only land she’s ever know, Dasnaria.
This book picks up right where the first book, Prisoner of the Crown, ends. Jenna is aboard Valeria. This is the first time she’s really alone. So far, on her trip, she’s at least had her brother, Harlan. But he stayed back to buy her time to get away. All she knows, is that she needs to get out of Dasnaria before she is found and returned to her husband.
While on the Valeria, Jenna meets up with Kaja. Kaja is a priestess of Danu, one of the three goddesses that are worshipped in the Twelve Kingdoms (again there are a few Easter Eggs hidden for readers of the Twelve Kingdoms series). Kaja helps Jenna hide and starts to teach her. Jenna quickly learns that she really doesn’t know much of anything. She can’t read or write. She can only speak Dasnarian.
Kaja also helps to teach Jenna to fight. Kaja takes the dance that Jenna spent most of her life learning, mostly so she could impress her betrothed, and turns it into a forms with weapons.
The plan becomes that Jenna will become a priestess of Danu, too. She will take a vow of silence, so as not to giveaway how little she knows of the area, and a vow of chastity, which she does because the idea of being with a man after the abuse of her husband scares her. She also changes her name. She eventually chooses, Ivariel, which is an anagram for Valeria, which changed her life.
When she boards her next ship, Robin, she meets Ochieng. He is a very nice and talkative person. He isn’t at all cowed by the fact that Priestess Ivariel is silent. He talks to her all the time anyway and is very good at reading her face to get responses. Once they land in his homeland, Chiyajua, Ochieng invites Priestess Ivariel to accompany him back to his family’s place.
A lot happens to Priestess Ivariel in this book. She learns quite a bit (she has a lot to learn, still). I don’t want to go into any more detail, so as to avoid spoilers. I will say, it was great to see more of the Twelve Kingdoms. I also liked seeing the world through both Princess Jenna’s and Priestess Ivariel’s eyes. They are two different people, as Princess Jenna was a sheltered girl and Priestess Ivariel is a much less sheltered, but still learning woman and warrior.
I feel like this quote here, sums up this story really well. I can’t wait to see where Priestess Ivariel goes from here.
**Book was provided to me by the author. This review is my opinion and was not requested or provoked in anyway by the author.
4.5 stars
In this second book in the The Chronicles of Dasnaria series by Jeffe Kennedy, we continue on the journey of Princess Jenna who is hiding from her abusive husband, which takes her out of the only land she’s ever know, Dasnaria.
This book picks up right where the first book, Prisoner of the Crown, ends. Jenna is aboard Valeria. This is the first time she’s really alone. So far, on her trip, she’s at least had her brother, Harlan. But he stayed back to buy her time to get away. All she knows, is that she needs to get out of Dasnaria before she is found and returned to her husband.
While on the Valeria, Jenna meets up with Kaja. Kaja is a priestess of Danu, one of the three goddesses that are worshipped in the Twelve Kingdoms (again there are a few Easter Eggs hidden for readers of the Twelve Kingdoms series). Kaja helps Jenna hide and starts to teach her. Jenna quickly learns that she really doesn’t know much of anything. She can’t read or write. She can only speak Dasnarian.
Kaja also helps to teach Jenna to fight. Kaja takes the dance that Jenna spent most of her life learning, mostly so she could impress her betrothed, and turns it into a forms with weapons.
All those years I practiced the traditional dances, particularly the ducerse, which required utmost skill to keep the many bells from making sound until the precisely timed moment. I’d thought I was preparing to dazzle my husband and make my emperor proud. Not teaching myself stealth.
But stealth had turned out to be far more useful.
The plan becomes that Jenna will become a priestess of Danu, too. She will take a vow of silence, so as not to giveaway how little she knows of the area, and a vow of chastity, which she does because the idea of being with a man after the abuse of her husband scares her. She also changes her name. She eventually chooses, Ivariel, which is an anagram for Valeria, which changed her life.
When she boards her next ship, Robin, she meets Ochieng. He is a very nice and talkative person. He isn’t at all cowed by the fact that Priestess Ivariel is silent. He talks to her all the time anyway and is very good at reading her face to get responses. Once they land in his homeland, Chiyajua, Ochieng invites Priestess Ivariel to accompany him back to his family’s place.
A lot happens to Priestess Ivariel in this book. She learns quite a bit (she has a lot to learn, still). I don’t want to go into any more detail, so as to avoid spoilers. I will say, it was great to see more of the Twelve Kingdoms. I also liked seeing the world through both Princess Jenna’s and Priestess Ivariel’s eyes. They are two different people, as Princess Jenna was a sheltered girl and Priestess Ivariel is a much less sheltered, but still learning woman and warrior.
I feel like this quote here, sums up this story really well. I can’t wait to see where Priestess Ivariel goes from here.
“I’d like to tell you about a young girl who grew up in paradise,” I said. “She had everything she wanted and nothing demanded of her—until everything was taken.”
**Book was provided to me by the author. This review is my opinion and was not requested or provoked in anyway by the author.
bananatricky's review
4.0
Three and a half stars.
I haven't read the first book in this new series which may be the reason I didn't feel connected to this story. Okay, I have no looked up the first book and it was clearly all about Jenna and her husband - I would recommend reading that one first because I definitely felt that I was missing a lot of the story.
We first meet Princess Jenna of Dasnaria on board a ship, she has run away from her abusive husband and is fleeing her homeland. Having been brought up in a seraglio she has no concept of money, reading, writing or living in the real world. She doesn't even know how to open the portholes or light the lanterns until one of the other passengers shows her.
We travel with Jenna as she learns about life outside the backwards, misogynistic society of Dasnaria where women have no voice, no power and no rights. Outside Dasnaria women can be warriors, priestesses, they can buy things, they can walk around alone, they can walk with young men. They have freedom. But always in the back of her mind Jenna knows her husband will not stop searching for her. She changes her name and becomes a Priestess of Danu but still she waits for him to find her.
As always, Jeffe Kennedy's writing is seductive, it draws you into a fantasy world so completely you feel disorientated when you look up and find you are sitting at home instead of living in a foreign land. Nyambura reminded me of Sri Lanka, maybe it's because I saw elephants washing in the river there at the Pinnewella Elephant sanctuary and the way that Jeffe Kennedy describes their skin and the bristles which are so rough and such a shock just transported me back there.
Overall, I feel that not having read the first book in the series left me at a disadvantage because I was curious about Jenn's previous life, how she escaped her husband etc. Had I read that book I expect my rating would have been much higher.
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
Bumped for release.
I haven't read the first book in this new series which may be the reason I didn't feel connected to this story. Okay, I have no looked up the first book and it was clearly all about Jenna and her husband - I would recommend reading that one first because I definitely felt that I was missing a lot of the story.
We first meet Princess Jenna of Dasnaria on board a ship, she has run away from her abusive husband and is fleeing her homeland. Having been brought up in a seraglio she has no concept of money, reading, writing or living in the real world. She doesn't even know how to open the portholes or light the lanterns until one of the other passengers shows her.
We travel with Jenna as she learns about life outside the backwards, misogynistic society of Dasnaria where women have no voice, no power and no rights. Outside Dasnaria women can be warriors, priestesses, they can buy things, they can walk around alone, they can walk with young men. They have freedom. But always in the back of her mind Jenna knows her husband will not stop searching for her. She changes her name and becomes a Priestess of Danu but still she waits for him to find her.
As always, Jeffe Kennedy's writing is seductive, it draws you into a fantasy world so completely you feel disorientated when you look up and find you are sitting at home instead of living in a foreign land. Nyambura reminded me of Sri Lanka, maybe it's because I saw elephants washing in the river there at the Pinnewella Elephant sanctuary and the way that Jeffe Kennedy describes their skin and the bristles which are so rough and such a shock just transported me back there.
Overall, I feel that not having read the first book in the series left me at a disadvantage because I was curious about Jenn's previous life, how she escaped her husband etc. Had I read that book I expect my rating would have been much higher.
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
Bumped for release.
jmopheim's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
astraeal's review
3.0
I hesitated before reading this book because I didn't like that much book 1, but I'm glad I did because Exile of the Seas was way better than Prisoner of the Crown. I loved seeing Jenna becoming more and more confident in herself, growing and all. And I'm lucky I did since it was such a big part of the book. She is on a journey to leave Dasnaria behind physically, but also mentally. Watching her grow stronger was my favorite part. But it was really a BIG part of the book, I feel like nothing much happened except for her growing stronger? She traveled and discovered many new things but there wasn't much about the plot. But we can see the Jenna at the beginning of the book and the Jenna at the end are really different, I'm proud of her.
lowbrowreaderofzerof_cks's review
5.0
Reading this book was like immersing myself into a bubble bath of beautiful prose, roiling emotions, and immaculate world-building. It is a slow tale of self-discovery and growth, no overnight character transformations or special snowflakes here. Just a young woman who has pretty much been stripped of any identity she once might have had and thrown into a world utterly foreign and baffling to her. With freedom. And choices. And decisions. And basic rights.
She hasn't got a clue what to make of it all in the beginning.
Then she makes a friend - or more precisely, a stranger decides to become her friend. And it all kicks off from there.
If you are looking for tight, action-packed book - back away now. The main story is about Jenna/Ivariel's struggle to recognize herself as a valid person with any strengths or attractions at all.
Yet I couldn't stop devouring it.
She hasn't got a clue what to make of it all in the beginning.
Then she makes a friend - or more precisely, a stranger decides to become her friend. And it all kicks off from there.
If you are looking for tight, action-packed book - back away now. The main story is about Jenna/Ivariel's struggle to recognize herself as a valid person with any strengths or attractions at all.
Yet I couldn't stop devouring it.