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gwyndae's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
sugarpop's review
3.0
This one is separated into 3 parts, each dedicated to another character.
It might as well have been two. Despite what the parts tell you, the second starred Jonathan more than it did the Silverlord.
The first part was brilliant. It was innovative, it was well written, it was beautiful. Leith was a charimsatic protagonist and her story was intriguing. Her connection with Maeve was fascinating to read about and it felt very sapphic for a story written in the early 1990s.
Then everything the first part did is destroyed by shifting to a 3rd person narrative and focusing on her bore of a son. There could not be a more conventional protagonist. Jonathan was a bore and felt so lackluster, I would have rather read Twilight than his side of the story.
I wished for the book to end with each chapter that passed and after he freed his father, the book became even worse. The story also feels very misogynistic starting with the second part.
It might as well have been two. Despite what the parts tell you, the second starred Jonathan more than it did the Silverlord.
The first part was brilliant. It was innovative, it was well written, it was beautiful. Leith was a charimsatic protagonist and her story was intriguing. Her connection with Maeve was fascinating to read about and it felt very sapphic for a story written in the early 1990s.
Then everything the first part did is destroyed by shifting to a 3rd person narrative and focusing on her bore of a son. There could not be a more conventional protagonist. Jonathan was a bore and felt so lackluster, I would have rather read Twilight than his side of the story.
I wished for the book to end with each chapter that passed and after he freed his father, the book became even worse. The story also feels very misogynistic starting with the second part.
mw2k's review
3.0
Fast paced and fun but I'm still not sure what I read just now. I know it involved a vampiric cloth, a bunch of monks, a lot of lovelorn young people, hags and -- wait for it -- a villain named Morgoth. Morgoth? OK, whatever...but as I said, it was brain candy and fun. I'm just not sure what kind of fun this book actually provided.
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