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The Lord-Protector's Daughter (2008)

by L.E. Modesitt Jr.(Favorite Author)

3.86 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0765321637 (ISBN13: 9780765321633)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Tor Books

series

Corean Chronicles

review 1: I almost stopped reading this book, but I made myself continue. I didn't regret it because the ending was enjoyable, but the rest of it so-so.The key issue with this book is how extremely mundane and repetitive it gets throughout. At least half the book could have been omitted. The existence of this book is necessary to set the tone and world for the next book, and to give it a fancy smacny title like "The Lady Protector" and in this it has done well through its ending.In all honesty, you can just about skip 80%-90% of the pages. This is one of those books you can spoil and summarise in 10 sentences. If you'd like to skip reading this book and go straight to the next book (which is much better) read my 10 sentence summary below.SPOILER AHEAD(Although actually there is bare... morely anything here that you can't already guess from reading the back of the book.)_____Girl finds out money is missing and learns her uncle is plotting something. Father doesn't listen (because women are no better than cows meant for breeding) and gets killed. Multiple attempts to poison her fail and finally she kills an assassin by severing his life thread with magic. She then drags the corpse out of her room and kicks it down the stairs like an unwanted puppy instead of raising the alarm, so that it will be funny for everyone in the morning.During the ascension ceremony she pretends to oblige and approve the take over until the very end when she summarily executes her uncle and cousin for treason and inserts herself as the first ever Lady Protector. The end.
review 2: Apparently I've read this before, but completely forgot everything about it and nothing seemed familiar about the book. However, I went to write a review here and discovered I'd already written one! Here is my newer review:This is a newer book in the Corean Chronicles. It takes place several hundred years after Soarer's Choice. I've read the previous 6 books in the Chronicles and loved them, though now I realized I've forgotten quite a bit of them and want to reread them. This book was just okay. The plot was good, as were the characters, however, everything seemed a bit rushed for me and the ending was weird. Mykella seemed to learn how to use her Talent too fast. Overall a good book and I'm already reading the sequel, The Lady-Protector. less

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