Kate Elliott, Shadow Gate
Nov. 25th, 2009 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellarienSecond in the "Crossroads" trilogy, about a once-protected realm whose supernatural Guardians have gone missing, leaving only the eagle-riding Reeves to try to keep order -- which isn't working too well.
This one felt very middle-bookish to me; there's a lot of settling down after the upheavals of the first volume, and a lot of what's presumably setup for the finale, but until the last few chapters nearly everything that happens is small-scale and personal. We get to find out what really happened to the Guardians, and why there were sightings of people known or believed to be dead in the last book (including the character who died abruptly a chapter or so into it.)
If rape from the perspective of the victim disturbs you, you might want to give this one a miss. (It's not physically graphic, but very much so emotionally.) Otherwise, It kept me reading, but I hope the action picks up in the final volume.
This one felt very middle-bookish to me; there's a lot of settling down after the upheavals of the first volume, and a lot of what's presumably setup for the finale, but until the last few chapters nearly everything that happens is small-scale and personal. We get to find out what really happened to the Guardians, and why there were sightings of people known or believed to be dead in the last book (including the character who died abruptly a chapter or so into it.)
If rape from the perspective of the victim disturbs you, you might want to give this one a miss. (It's not physically graphic, but very much so emotionally.) Otherwise, It kept me reading, but I hope the action picks up in the final volume.