three fun, engaging reads
Mar. 9th, 2007 08:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snugglekittyFirst was Sorceress of Faith by Robin Owens. This book is the second in a series, and I haven't read the first. I don't usually do that. But, in this case - the first book looked unacceptably fuzzy. (Hint: if it has cute talking animals in it, it's fuzzy.) So I decided to skip it and go for the second book instead. Overall, I didn't hate it, and that's high praise for me when it comes to romance crossovers. The heroine wasn't a complete twit, and her love interest wasn't a complete jackass. Of course, if he had been honest with her from the beginning, the book would have had no plot. And her hamster gets magical power. Her HAMSTER, people. Still, it was fun and funny. Three stars. The references to the first book - of which there were many, Owens doesn't hold back any plot points - made me glad I didn't bother with it.
I'm happy that more people are writing romance/fantasy crossovers these days. I just wish that so many of them didn't suck.
Second was Belladonna, sequel to Sebastien, by Anne Bishop. I liked it fine. I read it in just over a day. I didn't find it as compelling as Sebastien, which in turn, was not as compelling as anything in her Black Jewels series. But I did like some of the stuff about how Light and Dark need to be balanced, and I also liked the new characters introduced here. Three characters are still single at the end of the book, so I'm confident she'll write one more in the series. *wry smile* My hope is that that book will also explore Lynnea's parentage - you really think she'll be left as a foundling forever? Not likely. Three and a half stars.
Third, I read Fortune's Fool, also in just over a day. Mercedes Lackey no longer writes books that I want to read over and over again, books that make me want to drool, but she still weaves a captivating yarn. This book was pretty much of a piece with the other Five Hundred Kingdoms books. The ending, though, was a little smarmier than it needed to be. Still, I could see picking it up again, and thus, I give it four stars.
I'm happy that more people are writing romance/fantasy crossovers these days. I just wish that so many of them didn't suck.
Second was Belladonna, sequel to Sebastien, by Anne Bishop. I liked it fine. I read it in just over a day. I didn't find it as compelling as Sebastien, which in turn, was not as compelling as anything in her Black Jewels series. But I did like some of the stuff about how Light and Dark need to be balanced, and I also liked the new characters introduced here. Three characters are still single at the end of the book, so I'm confident she'll write one more in the series. *wry smile* My hope is that that book will also explore Lynnea's parentage - you really think she'll be left as a foundling forever? Not likely. Three and a half stars.
Third, I read Fortune's Fool, also in just over a day. Mercedes Lackey no longer writes books that I want to read over and over again, books that make me want to drool, but she still weaves a captivating yarn. This book was pretty much of a piece with the other Five Hundred Kingdoms books. The ending, though, was a little smarmier than it needed to be. Still, I could see picking it up again, and thus, I give it four stars.