Freda Warrington

Been a pleasant enough series, though nothing particularly different about it.

My main level of interest in this was how they were going to resolve the love interest between the Heroine of the story and a guy who is basically Adolf Hitler but worse.
Convinced his nation is the master race and happily tortures and kills people from other races without a thought. But somehow projects in the storyline as not totally evil and possibly redeemable.

I was a little disappointed in the ending, although it was handled not too badly.… (plus d'informations)

Set in the same world as the first 2 blackbird books, but is the next generation with a new cast of characters.
Normally when this happens, it is very inferior to the original series and feels like an attempt to cash in.
I'm thinking of Zelazny's second Amber series, with Merlin - still quite enjoyable but not so much as the original 5 books.
David Eddings Mallorean. Basically just a rewrite of the original Belgariad.
Martin Middleton's Chronicles of the Custodians - First three books were fantastic. Books 4-6 with the secondary characters taking the lead - not so much.

Anyway, in the Blackbird series case, I'm actually enjoying the start of this new duology (I assume) better than I did the original duology.
The original duology was a typical "quest" story against the personification of all evil and you just knew they would eventually get there and the only mystery was whether the author would kill off any of the main characters towards the end.

This book felt a little fresher. Still very standard fantasy storyline, but doesn't start with a quest but has goals evolving as the story develops, starting with basic survival. It's also nice to have the different storylines of the different characters as opposed to the first two books just following the same three characters and their points of view throughout.
I also like a villain who isn't simply evil just for the sake of it. This villain has charisma and the best of intentions but is becoming quickly irredeemable by the means he employs to reach for his goals.… (plus d'informations)

I enjoyed this better than the first book.
The mystery around Medrian was revealed very early in the book after being alluded to all throughout the first book in the series.
Return of characters from the first book at various points.

It was a fairly standard and predictable fantasy book. The biggest question mark leading up to the ending was who would survive and who wouldn't.

The quest wound up in this book, so I'm not really sure where the next book in the series will lead but I might as well give it a crack.… (plus d'informations)