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Blackveil (2010)

by Kristen Britain(Favorite Author)

4.15 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0756406609 (ISBN13: 9780756406608)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Daw Books

series

Green Rider

review 1: There were a few problems with this book. 1: what is the purpose of Amberhill in the story? I feel like he could be a spin off series. It would make more sense 2: How can Karigan not understand she is suppose to use her green rider ability at this point when she gets some "cryptic" message? 3: The whole Zachary/Estora scene. You know what I am talking about.4: Did we really need a POV from Estoria's cousin? Was that really necessary? I'm pretty sure we could have gotten the point from Estoria's POV.I'll read the next book as I feel Britain has developed an interesting world but I'm getting a little tired of the meandering she's doing in this book and The High King's Tomb. I'm also a little disappointed to read on her blog that she has no set number of books because she "wi... morell leave it up to the story to determine the number." To me this explains a lot of the meandering.
review 2: As the fourth installment in the Green Rider series, it's not beneficial to read this as a stand alone. There is quite a bit of background information that a reader needs in order to get the full emotional effect some things have on the character. Karigan, the main protagonist of the series, is faced with many challenges, most of them are subplots to the main story line: That Stevic has a working partnership with a brothel, intrigue with the royal court, and not to mention the upcoming marriage of King Zachary (who Karigan loves) to Lady Estora. The beginning of the book is more about the subplots than to the main story line of Karigan going into Blackveil. There is also Lord Amberhill, whose own story line will probably be more of a mention in the next book installment. At least, I would hope so as a lot of beginning was spent on him going to sea. However, I am still fond of this book as it has fantastic character development and fantastic dialogue. less

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Maria154

Britain has a gift for world building, good character development and exciting storytelling without falling into the male / female writers trap. By this I mean: men write about too much blood, sweat and war while women write about too much romance and family. To much of either can be boring. Kristin Briton transcends this trap with a good balance that keeps the story moving along. I love having a female author write about a female protagonist as well! I first became interested in her work from Patrick Rothfuss' (Name of the Wind & (Wise Mans Fear) Blog. I am now anxiously awaiting Briton's fifth book: Mirror Sight due in May 2014.

Paradoxe

If anyone has to be the heir of Tolkein it is Ms. Britain. She has the same interest in complex internal motivations and the same attention to created cultures. I had difficulty getting into this book. I'm glad the audiobook got me through the first few chapters. The remainder of the book is excellent.And about this "rape" thing. It wasn't rape. Someone needs to look that up. It was moderately non-consentual. No more, really, than being drunk. Rape, on the other hand, is forceful and hateful sexual damage. It has nothing to do with love.

abdelazees

Damned cliffhanger ending

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