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Die Magische Klinge (2011)

by Holly Black(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

3570306232 (ISBN13: 9783570306239)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

cbt

series

The Good Neighbors

review 1: The end of this wonderful series, this one sends it out with a bang as Rue struggles with internal feelings that pull her in every which direction before making the choice that she feels is best.----------- Fairies and humans are not alike. Sure, fairies can make themselves look like humans, but that's pretty much where the similarities end. And, Rue knows that she must face the fact that she is a faerie, regardless of the fact that she also has human blood flowing through her veins as well.----------- She saves her mortal boyfriend, which requires the slaying of the water faeries that were eating him to death. But, in the end, she still leaves him behind, for her heart no longer belongs to Dale, but instead to Tam. After the division of the land, Tam swims back to the ... morefairie side, where their island is floating into oblivion--A New Avalon--just to be with Rue. He had lost his lover in the past, and did not want the same to happen with him and Rue.----------- And, the series ends on that note, with the faeries having their own isle, and the humans having a separate one, where most everyone is happy.
review 2: This is the final volume of the series and honestly, I felt it was the weakest. There seems to be something a little off in the pacing but overall, maybe not. I think it’s the actual ending that left me unsatisfied.The city has been walled off by Aubrey’s final act and the humans are trapped among the fae but this is not necessarily a good thing. Rue’s father is losing his mind. Amanda, the woman he cheated on Rue’s elfin mother, Nia, is organizing the humans into a strike force. Nia has taken her father, Aubrey’s, place as a de facto leader of sorts. The humans have been marked by Nia which was meant to keep them safe from fae predation but that’s not likely to happen for long. Nia is also doing her best to separate Rue from the humans. Rue is torn between her human and fae sides. She is also torn between Dale and Tam. Rue does her best to save Dale from the spell he’s under and she wants to save her human friends.She finds out there was a phase two of her grandfather’s plan and she wants to enact it and save the humans at the same time. Over all the story isn’t bad. I did find the ending flawed (see under the spoiler warning). The art was more uneven this time with strange proportions (including Tam’s head on the cover). I’m glad I read the series. I liked it over all but it ended a little badly. So onto that. Spoiler alertXXXXXXXXXSpoilers – Part of my problem with the pacing/ending is that I see NO reason for Tam to love Rue so much. It felt like a very poorly executed love story. Rue doesn’t honestly seem to love either man very much but maybe that was to illustrate her fae nature (or am I being generous here). She doesn’t think some things through well (well she is a teenager) such as sending Tam back to this world. At best he’s 100-200 years out of his own time. Just how will he live? No identity, no papers proving who he is, no education. Need I go on? (this is always an issue for me in time travel stories too). Also I see absolutely NO reason for Rue to stay with the faeries. Yes she’s part of them but her allegiance has been more to the humans. The fae have done nothing but manipulate her, control her and bring her grief. To chose them over the humans honestly made no sense to me. She didn’t have that much trouble fitting in before and if the fae are gone and she can not longer see them, how hard could her life be? It rang hollow to me. less

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