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Thirteen Years Later (2010)

by Jasper Kent(Favorite Author)

3.92 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0593060652 (ISBN13: 9780593060650)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Bantam Press

series

The Danilov Quintet

review 1: Everything I liked about Twelve is still present in its sequel -- the meticulous research and well-drawn hero -- and perhaps a bit too much more. It is 13 years after the defeat of France and Bonaparte. Soldier Aleksei is now a trusted member of the Czar's inner circle dividing his attention between his beautiful loyal mistress and his wife. But there is one piece of his past still haunting him. I think the cover gives that name away well enough. What is troubling here is the fact that, like many second novels, this one seems to have been written more quickly than the first, possibly to meet a deadline. This leads to some incredibly illogical scenes near the end. Still, I liked it enough to give it four stars. Just wish it could have been five.
review 2: Not qu... moreite as enjoyable as I remember the first book being, although that may have a bit to do with all the bogged-down Aleksei-Marfa-Dmitry soapie stuff, which seems only there for the payoff (but I liked that payoff, so it all evens out). Politically interesting, and the tsar ends up a much more sympathetic character than I expected at the outset, but I'd have liked a **lot** more stuff about Iuda (LOTS more stuff about Iuda, particularly in his alter egos - he's a wonderful creation, cleverer by far than the nominal hero) and Kyesha and much much less on stiff-upper-adulterer poddling which was, all told, a bit dull - and I lost patience with Aleksei's limited thinking a bit here and there (which is probably a sign of good characterisation). Ends with a bit of a whimper all told, but I'm still looking forward to the next instalment. I hesitate to give it a 3 - I liked it MORE than that implies, but it's not up there with my usual 4s and I can't give it 3.5, so 3 will have to do. less

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