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bookdragonheart's review against another edition
5.0
4.5 stars! This was an excellent trilogy, building tension and story throughout the three books to an exciting and pulse pounding crescendo. A brilliant mixture of an 18th century style Scottish rebellion with an alternate modern day world, complete with cars, phones, technology......and magically altered candy!!
The main characters, Aini and Thane remain solid and stalwart, battling through deception and heartache, pain and joy, but never seeming to lose their strength or their connection to each other. All the while, the other members of this rebel party are equally intriguing, and add a wonderful level of personality to the story. Cheeky Miles, sweet and loyal Neve, strong and sassy (a little bit scary) Vera, and further along, loyal and true Braughn. They each added their only specia touches to the story as well as helping to shape the main characters as they grow into their destinies. The “bad guys” of the story, Earl Nether, Jack, even King John, while infusing plenty of fear and tension, weren’t as fleshed out, but still managed to be effective as a driving force to the rebellion, so the impact wasn’t significant. Their driving force really seemed to stem from money and power, and there was little to expand on or clarify this.
The pacing moves along at a good clip, and the tension builds in each book to a crescendo, as it also does throughout the trilogy, sucking you in and keeping you invested in moving forward and seeing how this could all play out. Overall, it is very effective storytelling.
The narration is quite good, as well. She doesn’t try too hard to create the different characters voices, but they are still recognizable from each other pretty well, and the accent differences are done well. The tone and pace are done well, and work very congruent with the story.
The main characters, Aini and Thane remain solid and stalwart, battling through deception and heartache, pain and joy, but never seeming to lose their strength or their connection to each other. All the while, the other members of this rebel party are equally intriguing, and add a wonderful level of personality to the story. Cheeky Miles, sweet and loyal Neve, strong and sassy (a little bit scary) Vera, and further along, loyal and true Braughn. They each added their only specia touches to the story as well as helping to shape the main characters as they grow into their destinies. The “bad guys” of the story, Earl Nether, Jack, even King John, while infusing plenty of fear and tension, weren’t as fleshed out, but still managed to be effective as a driving force to the rebellion, so the impact wasn’t significant. Their driving force really seemed to stem from money and power, and there was little to expand on or clarify this.
The pacing moves along at a good clip, and the tension builds in each book to a crescendo, as it also does throughout the trilogy, sucking you in and keeping you invested in moving forward and seeing how this could all play out. Overall, it is very effective storytelling.
The narration is quite good, as well. She doesn’t try too hard to create the different characters voices, but they are still recognizable from each other pretty well, and the accent differences are done well. The tone and pace are done well, and work very congruent with the story.
emgibson77's review against another edition
3.0
Overall this was an interesting trilogy. It was enjoyable and kept my interest.
joants's review against another edition
Beautiful story and conclusion to the trilogy!!
Aini and Thane have become two of my favorite characters this year. I have much enjoyed their journey and I felt part of their crew. This was a really good conclusion to the trilogy and I wish there was more!! For more visit my blog!
Aini and Thane have become two of my favorite characters this year. I have much enjoyed their journey and I felt part of their crew. This was a really good conclusion to the trilogy and I wish there was more!! For more visit my blog!
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