The mechanics of Burtenshaw’s prose are solid, if predictable.That’s this novel’s only saving grace.Aside from the fact that the premise is ripped directly from Garth Nix’s incomparable SABRIEL—down to the exact nomenclature of Death as a river and how the Walker steps into it, feeling the tug an...
Run away, get caught, listen to exposition, run away, get caught, listen to more exposition... The basic premise of the world and the story is clever enough, it just takes too long for anything to actually happen. The characters are interesting to start, but then they never change or develop as ...
Shadowcry is a good book, but nothing out of the ordinary, although I think the ending suggest a better sequel, with more action (and maybe some romance?) hopefully.I didn't dislike the heroine, Kate, but she seemed somewhat shallow and boring to me, and almost as if she had to wait to be rescued...
The plot of this book can be summed up pretty easily:People want Kate Winter dead. Kate goes on the run, and is chased. She suffers, goes in and out of the veil. The end. That's pretty much all that happens. I don't know why it took 300 pages to tell me this.Silas is on the other side of the ocea...
Fume’s builders had known how to work with the veil. They had raised the city in an age when the body and the spirit were seen as two separate aspects of one whole. It was a time before superstition, before people learned to close their minds to the truth that surrounded them. Fume belonged to th...
There was no real choice to make, and he knew it. Even there on the Continent, Dalliah was clearly Skilled enough to work the veil in ways he had never seen. She could easily have used that ability against him to get what she wanted, so the only real question was why she had even asked him at all...