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The Diviner (2011)

by Melanie Rawn(Favorite Author)

3.43 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0886777658 (ISBN13: 9780886777654)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Daw Books

review 1: I enjoyed this novel until... the end of Part 1. I was really shocked at the turn of events and almost put the book down.I'd heard of this author but never read her. I won this novel in a giveaway, otherwise I might never have read her stuff.Even though I did not like what happened to the main character(s) I continued and became thoroughly confused as to all the new characters and family lines brought in. I realized I didn't care what happened to these new people and started skim-reading.The ending was not satisfactory or even understandable. The author did not give the same amount of time, back story, and interest to the characters in the later parts of the book and it showed.If her other novels are as complex with family lines and names re-used, then I think I will avoid... more them.
review 2: For me, The Diviner fell short, in part, because of the love I have for the Sunrunner books. I know that Melanie Rawn can write huge, cast-of-thousands, heartwrenching, gutpunching, soul-soaring books... and this fell lamentably short of the heights she has achieved before. The writing here is solid; the world-building is excellent. The trouble is that the characters are just ... words on a page. They never come to life for me. It reads as an interesting history, and I enjoyed the cultural creation and setting very much (I am so done with the pseudo-European settings for high fantasy), but as a whole, it just never grabbed me. This is unfortunate as I very much enjoyed the first part of the book. Possibly spoiler alert (no names mentioned, but details)... There are a couple of character deaths, and instead of feeling those deaths were shocking or sad, I just felt annoyance because she was changing horses mid-stream and not continuing on with the story I was interested and invested in. Honestly, I think she could have written this story in greater detail, possibly even over two books, and done so much better. She would have had time to give us the emotional layers and nuances that she has done so well at in other stories. less

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