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tuttidolci's review
2.0
Took me a long time to WANT to finish this book. I, unfortunately, found it boring and somewhat hokey. Nothing like the first book in this series. I'm disappointed.
suzemo's review
3.0
This is the second of the Elven lords (or whatever) romance series by Kathryne Kennedy. And it's not quite as good as the first book (Fire Lord's Lover), but still pretty solid.
There are cameos by characters from the first book. The world building is still pretty solid and interesting. England is ruled by 7 different elven lords from a different dimension, so it's a bit of alternate history as well.
My biggest issue is with the characters. They're not horrible, they just aren't very interesting. So yay for giving us an awesome heroine that doesn't need rescuing every 5 minutes, and yay for a romance novel for passing the Bechdel test... but it was just three stars for me.
I don't feel like I wasted my time, I just felt a little ploddy while reading for a bit.
Bonus cookies to myself for reading this during a hurricane.
There are cameos by characters from the first book. The world building is still pretty solid and interesting. England is ruled by 7 different elven lords from a different dimension, so it's a bit of alternate history as well.
My biggest issue is with the characters. They're not horrible, they just aren't very interesting. So yay for giving us an awesome heroine that doesn't need rescuing every 5 minutes, and yay for a romance novel for passing the Bechdel test... but it was just three stars for me.
I don't feel like I wasted my time, I just felt a little ploddy while reading for a bit.
Bonus cookies to myself for reading this during a hurricane.
blodeuedd's review
3.0
This book can be read as a stand alone, since it does take place 9 years after book 1. But still it is a series and the plot to overthrown the elves continue.
What I enjoy most about this series is the worldbuilding. Kennedy has this way of creating such fantastic worlds that you can almost not imagine them in your head. The book takes place in England but it is a changed England as Elves came from their dimension and took over the country. Now Eleven Lords and Ladies rule with an ironfist. Humans are mere playthings to them and those born out of mixed unions are killed if their magic is too powerful. The elves do not want anyone messing with their power. The greatness of the world does not stop here, no all these elves rule over elements and this time it is the Storm Lord's kingdom we see most of. He has changed the area so that it is filled with streams and lakes. He resides in Bath and there is water everywhere.
With that out of the way I can move on to the story. Cecily is his bastard and she is meant to be dead but was saved by the Rebellion. Now it is time for her to take up the cause and help them, by her side she has Giles who has looked over her for years. She is quite headstrong, and she knows that she has power enough to defend herself. She has also always liked Giles a lot, thought not any more. They had a falling out. Still he also likes her a lot but she is a lady, while he is nothing. Aye star crossed lovers in more than one way. But we all know they will have a HEA, but the way there is long since she feels that he dislikes her and he tries to stop his own thoughts of having her.
What we then have in this book is passion and romance, danger, a bit of action, some monsters, the search for her dad, a secret mission and learning more about the rebellion and the Elven Lords. All in all making it an intriguing story in a beautiful and rich setting. And the Elven Lords are just so evil, I love it.
Conclusion:
A good story with an excellent world to pull more from. She has created such an interesting world that you want to read more about. The pages just fly by while you read.
What I enjoy most about this series is the worldbuilding. Kennedy has this way of creating such fantastic worlds that you can almost not imagine them in your head. The book takes place in England but it is a changed England as Elves came from their dimension and took over the country. Now Eleven Lords and Ladies rule with an ironfist. Humans are mere playthings to them and those born out of mixed unions are killed if their magic is too powerful. The elves do not want anyone messing with their power. The greatness of the world does not stop here, no all these elves rule over elements and this time it is the Storm Lord's kingdom we see most of. He has changed the area so that it is filled with streams and lakes. He resides in Bath and there is water everywhere.
With that out of the way I can move on to the story. Cecily is his bastard and she is meant to be dead but was saved by the Rebellion. Now it is time for her to take up the cause and help them, by her side she has Giles who has looked over her for years. She is quite headstrong, and she knows that she has power enough to defend herself. She has also always liked Giles a lot, thought not any more. They had a falling out. Still he also likes her a lot but she is a lady, while he is nothing. Aye star crossed lovers in more than one way. But we all know they will have a HEA, but the way there is long since she feels that he dislikes her and he tries to stop his own thoughts of having her.
What we then have in this book is passion and romance, danger, a bit of action, some monsters, the search for her dad, a secret mission and learning more about the rebellion and the Elven Lords. All in all making it an intriguing story in a beautiful and rich setting. And the Elven Lords are just so evil, I love it.
Conclusion:
A good story with an excellent world to pull more from. She has created such an interesting world that you want to read more about. The pages just fly by while you read.
diaryofthebookdragon's review
2.0
A year ago I read and loved [b:The Fire Lord's Lover|7268566|The Fire Lord's Lover (The Elven Lords, #1)|Kathryne Kennedy|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1348547993s/7268566.jpg|8386733]. I thought it was a little bit more focused on the romance, but it still was set in interesting alternative version of Earth.
Honestly, I don't know why I haven't read The Lady of the Storm sooner, I was definitely looking forward to it. But The Lady of the Storm was one big disappointment for me. It felt like completely different person wrote this book. The Lady of the Storm is similar mostly to old bodice-ripper historical romance novels. I hoped we will find out more about the world from which elves came from, there will be advances in rebellion and that the structure of the story will stay the same. But all of the aspects of the previous book I loved are missing including snarky dragon side-character.
I am not sure if I will continuing with this series.
Honestly, I don't know why I haven't read The Lady of the Storm sooner, I was definitely looking forward to it. But The Lady of the Storm was one big disappointment for me. It felt like completely different person wrote this book. The Lady of the Storm is similar mostly to old bodice-ripper historical romance novels. I hoped we will find out more about the world from which elves came from, there will be advances in rebellion and that the structure of the story will stay the same. But all of the aspects of the previous book I loved are missing including snarky dragon side-character.
I am not sure if I will continuing with this series.
librovert's review
4.0
The Lady of the Storm (and the whole The Elven Lords series, for that matter) is the kind of fantasy romance story I love. There's a solid relationship, but it doesn't overpower the world and the stories going on outside of the relationship.
This second installment in the series expands quite a bit on the lore of The Elven Lords, a Georgian England where mad elven lords rule over parts of the country and wage war for control of the King of England.
I felt that both Cecily and Giles matured during their journey (and even more so into the third book) and I loved that they weren't getting it on in chapter 2. Because really, getting it on after speaking three words to another person is just poor manners.
This second installment in the series expands quite a bit on the lore of The Elven Lords, a Georgian England where mad elven lords rule over parts of the country and wage war for control of the King of England.
I felt that both Cecily and Giles matured during their journey (and even more so into the third book) and I loved that they weren't getting it on in chapter 2. Because really, getting it on after speaking three words to another person is just poor manners.
oracleofaal's review
4.0
This book takes place 9 years after the first book, The Fire Lord's Lover. This book extends the world that was developed in the first and again was a fun easy read.
heyt's review
3.0
I didn't enjoy this one as much as I did the first in the series. Cecily and Giles are okay as the leads but it's more of a journey tale and not as much fun as the intrigue of the first. It was a light and fast read and I enjoyed it for the most part although some of the obstacles felt a little contrived. I'm not sure if I'm going to go through the effort to get a hold of the next one.
reginaexmachina's review
In the past I've liked everything I'd read by Kathryne Kennedy, some more than others. But for the most part I've always at least been interested enough to finish all of them so far.
Unfortunately that streak ended for The Lady of the Storm. And funny thing is that the world building is still good in here for a fantasy romance series. What sort of let me down here is the characters. They weren't bad people or make stupid decisions.... they were mostly just booooring. I tried and tried to make it through hoping things get interesting but around halfway through I just gave up. The special abilities of the main leads are interesting but their personalities just made me want to ZZZzzzzZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz........
Unfortunately that streak ended for The Lady of the Storm. And funny thing is that the world building is still good in here for a fantasy romance series. What sort of let me down here is the characters. They weren't bad people or make stupid decisions.... they were mostly just booooring. I tried and tried to make it through hoping things get interesting but around halfway through I just gave up. The special abilities of the main leads are interesting but their personalities just made me want to ZZZzzzzZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz........
kittyfoil's review
3.0
I just realized that this series is incredibly underrated in how it deals with colonialism in fantasy. Fantasy colonialism what ifs are always very tricky because they usually involve white people speculating about what if the sun never set in a different empire that wasn't Britain, and the people are usually coded as people of color. This is problematic on a number of levels because it just doesn't ring true with our reality, and also westerners don't really have a lot of familiarity with non-western philosophy, so the methods of imperialism are the same, but the people are just brown now, which also doesn't ring true. This series side steps this by having England, (and apparently only England Wales is exempt and I am assuming so is Scotland) be colonized by magical creatures who are pretty unambiguously coded European so of course the methodology is explained. They have a Rebellion like in Star Wars, they don't like colonialist rule, but the story acknowledges that stealing some powerful scepters isn't going to undo colonialism, nor is telling the colonizers to go back to where they came from, and also what do we do with miscegenated peoples. The book acknowledges that there is nuance to this issue, but it is not a question that needs to be dealt with in this particular story because it is a romance, it is not within its purview.
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