![]() The title "Second Sons" is a clever little play on words. Her recent ‘Tide Lords’ quartet garnered a couple of positive reviews, and I’ve seen some blogs posting about her latest series ‘The Undivided.’īut I want to talk now about one of her older, less known, set of books The Second Sons trilogy, comprising of 'The Lion of Senet,' 'Eye of the Labyrinth,' and 'Lord of the Shadows.' It’s a shame that these books haven’t received a lot more attention, because they’re really pretty great. It pleases me to see that Australian author Jennifer Fallon is slowly starting to receive some well deserved international attention. The last fifth of this book was everything I hated about women in the Wheel of Time. Why?īut dear heavens, I don't think I could deal with a whole book of Tia being a tsundere. Narration mentions that Dhevynians who do the Bonfire Night or whatever it's called and drink Mother's Milk get brainwashed to the Shadow Dancers after, but this change of heart doesn't happen to Dirk, and he remembers everything. Oh, and I have one question about something that happens right before the big climax: I am definitely more interested in the next book now than I was at 70% completion yesterday. I appreciated that Fallon pulled things on her male leads that would normally be pulled on a woman, though I think she could have gone a few steps further in the sympathy the reader should have for the victims. I think I liked the tonal shift at the end, where the idyllic years of youth definitively ended. I really liked how Dirk became more and more politically savvy. Things are of course simplified from where they would be in a modern-day political situation, but there are at least four sides all vying for their own solutions. I felt that the really major plot points didn't happen until 75% of the way through, and I was twiddling my thumbs for a few hundred pages. There are some major secrets set up in the first, say, 10% of the book, and then there's really just a lot of waiting around for some people to discover the secrets. But the teenagers are also playing politics in a pretty unkind world, and a lot of that unkindness is hinted at very strongly before it gets dragged into the present (if you've got any hangups on various kinds of violence, you should listen to the descriptions of the wartime atrocities of the past, and assume that atrocities are still very possible). Because dear lord, the teenage angst and hornyness was just too much sometimes. I'm still deciding what I think about the tone. So the major players of the last war are all there, parenting and advising our new leads, who are unfortunately very teenaged. ![]() And we're 25 years after that last "Age of Darkness", where the pseudo-medieval fantasy world plunged into civil war and the nations ended up in a theocracy, with the last king deposed. It starts out with a really interesting premise (that may end up to be sci-fi in the end, kinda like the Coldfire Trilogy) where the setting is a planet in a binary star system set up such that if one of the suns is invisible, havoc wreaks the planet. But will they, and their friendship, survive the chain of events set in motion by the ambitions of the ruthless High Priestess of the Shadowdancers and the domineering Lion of Senet? … ( more) A strong friendship develops between Dirk, second son of the Duke, and Kirshov Latanya, second son of the Lion of Senet. His presence is enough to even bring Antonov, the powerful Lion of Senet, to the island and fear to the Keep of the Duke of Elcast. Badly wounded, his arrival stirs up old hatreds and unravels old secrets. A volcanic eruption rocks the seas separating the Kingdom of Dhevyn and the mainland Kingdom of Senet, and a mysterious sailor is shipwrecked on the island of Elcast. until circumstances begin to tip political rivalries into a deadlier game altogether. The intervention of Belagren, High Priestess of the Shadowdancers, and the sacrifice of a child of royal blood, has banished the Age of Shadows from the skies. On the world Ranadon there is no night as both suns shine brightly.
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