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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
Sharon Shinn is the best!! This series won't replace The Twelve Houses or Elemental Blessings as my favorite Sharon Shinn series, but it's still completely fascinating. It was better than Christmas to have three new Sharon Shinn books at once. Haven't seen anything to the effect that there will be more books....but fingers crossed for 4 more!
I loved the Elemental Blessings series and the Twelve Houses series and I was excited about a new series, but I was not into this one. I didn’t like the main characters Brianna and Marguerite, and I didn’t fully get into the main idea of the echos either. I enjoy young adult fiction but this one feels too young for me. I am a Sharon Shinn fan but this one isn’t for me.
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Wonderful
I love every world Sharon Quinn has created. The idea of the echoes is intriguing and I'm looking forward to leaning more in the next two books.
I love every world Sharon Quinn has created. The idea of the echoes is intriguing and I'm looking forward to leaning more in the next two books.
I don't want to spoil this for anyone who might want to read it so basically I loved this but I think I would rather have read it instead of listened to it. The concept of an echo of a person following them around but also completely silent is, not gonna lie, creepy? Like pretty dang creepy. But I will say she thought about almost every aspect of how it would work, so good world building. I do have some questions about going to the bathroom but not, like, mechanical, mostly I just think talking about how every bathroom has four . . . chamber pots or whatever would have been some funny content.
Content warning for a rape scene in the middle.
Everything else is a spoiler.
Like I'm just not wild about the plot line that this lady gets sexually assaulted, her echo kills the guy that does it, who just so happens to be the bastard son of the king, so she gets SENTENCED TO DEATH.
What kind of justice system is this?
It's a fantasy land, Merrin, she has literal identical copies of herself, who says justice has to be fair in the feudal system, right? At least it wasn't ACTUALLY a "kill your gays" moment, and she does get her lady love in the end. All she had to lose were her shadows, which would have made going off with her lady love impossible. There just wasn't a truly good ending for her, which also makes me sad.
Anyway, I loved the main romance plotline, Nico is a flipping dream. I loved the friendship between Brianna and Marguerite. (There may be spelling errors in those names but I listened to it instead of reading it myself, so.)
A solid showing from my friend ShaShi, and I'm excited that the other two are already available.
Content warning for a rape scene in the middle.
Everything else is a spoiler.
Spoiler
So I love that Sharon Shinn finally had her first gay character, so imagine my HORROR when that gay character gets frickin murdered at the end. Except she doesn't, she gets to run off to another country with her lady love, and it only cost her her echoes, except that's also horrifically sad.Like I'm just not wild about the plot line that this lady gets sexually assaulted, her echo kills the guy that does it, who just so happens to be the bastard son of the king, so she gets SENTENCED TO DEATH.
What kind of justice system is this?
It's a fantasy land, Merrin, she has literal identical copies of herself, who says justice has to be fair in the feudal system, right? At least it wasn't ACTUALLY a "kill your gays" moment, and she does get her lady love in the end. All she had to lose were her shadows, which would have made going off with her lady love impossible. There just wasn't a truly good ending for her, which also makes me sad.
Anyway, I loved the main romance plotline, Nico is a flipping dream. I loved the friendship between Brianna and Marguerite. (There may be spelling errors in those names but I listened to it instead of reading it myself, so.)
A solid showing from my friend ShaShi, and I'm excited that the other two are already available.
A genuinely new and interesting concept. Shinn is not really the best stylist, but she does think about human perspectives.
Not quite up to the very best of Shinn's work, but beautifully unique.
I loved that the story was centred around the Ladies Maid instead of the Lady herself.
I loved that the story was centred around the Ladies Maid instead of the Lady herself.
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No