disastrouspenguin's review against another edition
3.0
David B. Coe does this thing... where he brings in multiple, throw-away characters to assist in "furthering the plot". This drives me CRAZY! I don't want to read 10 pages about someone that I'll never hear from again in the next few hundred...
But I pushed through because, as with the series previous to this, the story was so interesting and the characters are so enthralling, you just have. to. know! what happens next. If it weren't for this one habit, the book probably would have gotten 4 stars.
But I pushed through because, as with the series previous to this, the story was so interesting and the characters are so enthralling, you just have. to. know! what happens next. If it weren't for this one habit, the book probably would have gotten 4 stars.
kay_ampersand's review against another edition
5.0
Very satisfying.
(FYI:The back cover description spoils the whole book)
(FYI:The back cover description spoils the whole book)
chrisbookishcauldron's review against another edition
2.0
I loved Coe’s Winds of the Forelands novels, so I was eager to read more set in that world. But alas I think I’m going to skip the rest of the books in the blood of the south lands. This was in my opinion no where near as good as his previous work. Tons of page time was given to characters who were ultimately meaningless to the plot. The writing felt very different to the writing in the Forelands novels. The complexity of the forelands was lost here as well, and instead replaced with extremely repetitive sequences of towns being poisoned. Of course I like Grinsa and Cressene, but they didn’t show up until over halfway through the book and their story in this was just not compelling or interesting at all.
julieputty's review
3.0
Blah. Fairly enjoyable until Grinsa and Co show up. They are badly written and it's pretty apparent that there have already been stories told with these characters--stories that I haven't read.
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