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Jun. 25th, 2008 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
riariYeesh. Anyone on my friendslist reads the Nightrunner series from Lynn Flewelling?
It took me two bookstores to get the new book. Borders on Kirby didn't have it, and the computer said it was on the way. So I went to Bookstop on Alabama and found it there, after some help from the staff looking it up for me. Because I missed it the first time looking for it because I was thinking that the beginning of the author's last name was spelled with Fw and not Fl. Yeah my brain sucks sometimes.
Also picked up Death Note vol. 11-12. Finished up vol. 10 last night and started Shadows Return last night. Spent pretty much all day reading it today. Except for a quick session of DDR. (For which my brain still likes to flip the down/up arrows. Very annoying.)
So, things in Skala has changed under Phoria's leadership. Aurenfaire styles is out of fashion now in the court, a decree of Phoria.
Alec and Seregil go back to being how they used to be before in Skala, nobles and thieves/spies. Seregil's not happy with this though, with the Cockerel gone and things new and old not the same anymore. Phoria, still not trusting them, sends them off to fetch her half-sister home. And there the whole trouble begins.
They get captured by slavers enroute and sold. Alec is treasured a bit for his rare family blood and Seregil, not so much. And well they think that both of them have magic, which Seregil gets sick upon touching just about any magic.
Most of the books is how Seregil and Alec slowly figure out a way to escape (think the part of Stalking Darkness where Alec was captured). Also, there's the mystery of what the alchemist master is trying to create. Which he does succeed of sorts. But it takes more than one try, because the first one wasn't good enough.
Oh! Lo and behold, Ilar makes an appearance rather early in the book. But you have to see Seregil's side to realize that it was Ilar. While he's cozying up to Alec, he's tormenting Seregil.
Eventually, you know they're going to escape somehow, so Seregil and Alec make an escape, at around the same time. And they take Ilar with them, and Alec insists on the taking the creation, because it belongs to Alec and would die without him. They find out along the way that Sebrahn, the creation, can heal.
Good thing they did, because while it looked like they got away mostly scot free, they're found again and Alec gives his life for Seregil. Woah, I cannot believe Lynn killed him. Wow. And Seregil's half mad with grief and charging the hunters and manages to kill off at least two guards and the alchemist. Sebrahn somehow destroys the rest before they can kill Seregil. But Seregil's critically wounded, Alec's dead, but Sebrahn does something that brings Alec back.
Oh. Apparently Sebrahn heals Seregil as well but you don't realize this until Micum and Thero find them. More are still after them and Sebrahn destroys them again.
Wow. So they manage to get to a Aurenfaie ship, and the book ends not long after that, with the Hazeldrielfaie discussing about how a white child had been created (I assume Sebrahn) and how it shouldn't have been possible. But what looks like the current leader saying that hunters? should be released.
Hooo boy. Well, there's less ground covered by this book in terms of scenery/terrain. Once they're captured, most of the book is about their slavery. I would think its like Traitor's Moon in that regard, where most of the time they were in one place.
You see more of Alec's and Seregil's relationship, how Seregil is still trying to puzzle out what the 'You will father a child of no woman' part of the oracle's speech. And whoa on how that turned out.
Boy was I so glad that they escaped but was rather surprised near the end. *sniff* But it turned out okay...for the moment anyway. And I don't think The White Road advertisement is as bad a spoiler as the mailing list was talking about. Because if you really think about it concerning what happened in the book, and what the characters in the epilogue was talking about, yeah...
So, a pretty good book. Though, damn that epilogue, we have to wait until 2009 to see the next one, labeled The White Road. I'm still processing it since I read it so fast. But I did like the book. I'm glad to read more adventures of those two.
Though now I want to go back and re-read the first two books. ^_^
It took me two bookstores to get the new book. Borders on Kirby didn't have it, and the computer said it was on the way. So I went to Bookstop on Alabama and found it there, after some help from the staff looking it up for me. Because I missed it the first time looking for it because I was thinking that the beginning of the author's last name was spelled with Fw and not Fl. Yeah my brain sucks sometimes.
Also picked up Death Note vol. 11-12. Finished up vol. 10 last night and started Shadows Return last night. Spent pretty much all day reading it today. Except for a quick session of DDR. (For which my brain still likes to flip the down/up arrows. Very annoying.)
So, things in Skala has changed under Phoria's leadership. Aurenfaire styles is out of fashion now in the court, a decree of Phoria.
Alec and Seregil go back to being how they used to be before in Skala, nobles and thieves/spies. Seregil's not happy with this though, with the Cockerel gone and things new and old not the same anymore. Phoria, still not trusting them, sends them off to fetch her half-sister home. And there the whole trouble begins.
They get captured by slavers enroute and sold. Alec is treasured a bit for his rare family blood and Seregil, not so much. And well they think that both of them have magic, which Seregil gets sick upon touching just about any magic.
Most of the books is how Seregil and Alec slowly figure out a way to escape (think the part of Stalking Darkness where Alec was captured). Also, there's the mystery of what the alchemist master is trying to create. Which he does succeed of sorts. But it takes more than one try, because the first one wasn't good enough.
Oh! Lo and behold, Ilar makes an appearance rather early in the book. But you have to see Seregil's side to realize that it was Ilar. While he's cozying up to Alec, he's tormenting Seregil.
Eventually, you know they're going to escape somehow, so Seregil and Alec make an escape, at around the same time. And they take Ilar with them, and Alec insists on the taking the creation, because it belongs to Alec and would die without him. They find out along the way that Sebrahn, the creation, can heal.
Good thing they did, because while it looked like they got away mostly scot free, they're found again and Alec gives his life for Seregil. Woah, I cannot believe Lynn killed him. Wow. And Seregil's half mad with grief and charging the hunters and manages to kill off at least two guards and the alchemist. Sebrahn somehow destroys the rest before they can kill Seregil. But Seregil's critically wounded, Alec's dead, but Sebrahn does something that brings Alec back.
Oh. Apparently Sebrahn heals Seregil as well but you don't realize this until Micum and Thero find them. More are still after them and Sebrahn destroys them again.
Wow. So they manage to get to a Aurenfaie ship, and the book ends not long after that, with the Hazeldrielfaie discussing about how a white child had been created (I assume Sebrahn) and how it shouldn't have been possible. But what looks like the current leader saying that hunters? should be released.
Hooo boy. Well, there's less ground covered by this book in terms of scenery/terrain. Once they're captured, most of the book is about their slavery. I would think its like Traitor's Moon in that regard, where most of the time they were in one place.
You see more of Alec's and Seregil's relationship, how Seregil is still trying to puzzle out what the 'You will father a child of no woman' part of the oracle's speech. And whoa on how that turned out.
Boy was I so glad that they escaped but was rather surprised near the end. *sniff* But it turned out okay...for the moment anyway. And I don't think The White Road advertisement is as bad a spoiler as the mailing list was talking about. Because if you really think about it concerning what happened in the book, and what the characters in the epilogue was talking about, yeah...
So, a pretty good book. Though, damn that epilogue, we have to wait until 2009 to see the next one, labeled The White Road. I'm still processing it since I read it so fast. But I did like the book. I'm glad to read more adventures of those two.
Though now I want to go back and re-read the first two books. ^_^
