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debdebtig's review against another edition
5.0
Welton Isn't Your Average College
Lies and Prophecy by Marie Brennan takes place on the college campus of Welton University in chilly Minnesota. Welton isn't your everyday college, it's one of the top schools in magic. Kim and her friends take us through the journey of your not so average third year college student studying Divination, Psychic Sciences, and a number of other tough courses. Kim's story pulls you in further each page until you feel you are sitting in the dining hall with them as they discuss their classes. When things stake a major unexpected turn you are hard pressed to put the book down.
The magic is not just part of the book but part of Marie Brennan's writing, she does an extraordinary job weaving the characters into your heart. I cannot wait to hear if there will be another book in this series. This book is highly recommended as I give it 4 1/2 stars.
Disclaimer: This book was received a member giveaway at LibraryThing.
Lies and Prophecy by Marie Brennan takes place on the college campus of Welton University in chilly Minnesota. Welton isn't your everyday college, it's one of the top schools in magic. Kim and her friends take us through the journey of your not so average third year college student studying Divination, Psychic Sciences, and a number of other tough courses. Kim's story pulls you in further each page until you feel you are sitting in the dining hall with them as they discuss their classes. When things stake a major unexpected turn you are hard pressed to put the book down.
The magic is not just part of the book but part of Marie Brennan's writing, she does an extraordinary job weaving the characters into your heart. I cannot wait to hear if there will be another book in this series. This book is highly recommended as I give it 4 1/2 stars.
Disclaimer: This book was received a member giveaway at LibraryThing.
waclements7's review against another edition
3.0
I am still ruminating over this. I may change my rating after I've had more time to think about it (higher, not lower). I am not sure that getting the illustrated edition was necessarily worth it, but for only a dollar more, it was interesting to have them. I've just contradicted myself, I know. It ended up a major cliffhanger, which I have a hard time with. On the other hand, the reason I read it was because I won a copy of Chains of Memory from Early Reviewers, so once I've read that, I may feel more resolved. I enjoyed the whole idea of the college of magic, the different schools, the idea of the wilders, and especially Julian being the only one there and the questions as to why. I liked Kim and the secondary characters of Julian and Kim's roommates, and Professor Grayson was also an interesting character. I'm looking forward to reading Chains of Memory.
raven_morgan's review against another edition
3.0
I got a copy of this because I kickstarted the sequel (and I'd been keen on reading this for a while).
Reading through other reviews, I see that it's the first novel Brennan wrote, and a lot of it reads that way. There is a *lot* of great stuff in here, but too much of it - for me - skims the surface of things, emotionally.
Looking forward to the sequel, since Brennan has several more books beneath her belt now. And I think I'm going to dig her other books out from where they're hiding on my shelves.
Reading through other reviews, I see that it's the first novel Brennan wrote, and a lot of it reads that way. There is a *lot* of great stuff in here, but too much of it - for me - skims the surface of things, emotionally.
Looking forward to the sequel, since Brennan has several more books beneath her belt now. And I think I'm going to dig her other books out from where they're hiding on my shelves.
urbanaudreye's review against another edition
5.0
Loved it!
The veils between worlds are thinning and soon the world as we know it and the Other world will be one once again. A suspense filled fantasy combined with a coming of age love story. This is an absolutely fantastic book!
The veils between worlds are thinning and soon the world as we know it and the Other world will be one once again. A suspense filled fantasy combined with a coming of age love story. This is an absolutely fantastic book!
lizbusby's review against another edition
3.0
Marie Brennan's Memoirs of Lady Trent series and its standalone sequel Turning Darkness into Light are some of my absolute favorite fantasy ever. I was hoping to repeat the magic with another academically-focused series by her. Unfortunately, I didn't end up liking this one. The setting of this book was amazingly intriguing and yet underdeveloped. It was like going to Hogwarts but almost never talking about the classes and there are only a few mentions of quidditch. I wanted a much more immersive experience. The concept for the series--that some ancestral fae part of humanity suddenly awoke and gave half the population magic powers--is barely hinted at rather than fully explored. I felt like lots of things were happening to the characters but the characters themselves had really no choice or motivation in the matter. Disappointing. I still give it three stars for the potential to be awesome.
texile's review against another edition
3.0
The prose is so bad! It's hard to believe it's by the same author as the lady Trent books. It has good bones, but argh, the prose!
telegramsam's review against another edition
4.0
The story could have been a little faster paced or had a few more thrills but I loved the world and the characters. Very curious to see how the events effect the world in the sequel.
lizshayne's review
3.0
I somehow forgot I owned this until my daughter was up at 4:30 in the morning with jet lag and grumbling because I wanted her to go back to sleep.
Anyway, I had this on my iPad (which was serving as her white noise machine) and once I started, I had to keep reading.
It's not as fascinating as the Memoirs of Lady Trent, although that may be partially my own biases in terms of content, but Brennan still has a gift for world building and I enjoyed this book enough that it's time to hunt down the sequel.
Anyway, I had this on my iPad (which was serving as her white noise machine) and once I started, I had to keep reading.
It's not as fascinating as the Memoirs of Lady Trent, although that may be partially my own biases in terms of content, but Brennan still has a gift for world building and I enjoyed this book enough that it's time to hunt down the sequel.
jkh107's review
4.0
New Adult fantasy set in an upper midwest college. I don't know whether the resemblances to Dean's _Tam Lin_ are deliberate--but they work quite well. Psychic and magically gifted young people are trained as the Otherworld draws closer to ours and the horrors of the Unseelie lie in wait. Good stuff!
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