Flesh and Spirit
The rebellious Valen has spent his life trying to escape his family legacy. But his fate is sealed when he winds up half-dead, addicted to an enchantment-which leads him into a world he could never possibly imagine...
The rebellious Valen has spent his life trying to escape his family legacy. But his fate is sealed when he winds up half-dead, addicted to an enchantment-which leads him into a world he could never possibly imagine...
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780451461568 (0451461568)
ASIN: 451461568
Publish date: January 2nd 2007
Publisher: Roc
Pages no: 488
Edition language: English
Series: Lighthouse (#1)
I thought the first half of this book was four-star material. I was interested in it, I liked the characters, and I found myself thinking about the story when I wasn’t reading it and speculating what might happen next. Somewhere around the halfway point, fortunately during the weekend, this turned...
Flesh and Spirit is the first book of a duology that concludes with Breath and Bone.The main character is Valen, a man running from his destiny. He is a pureblood, which means he has magical ability, and he is also the youngest son of a family of famous mapmakers. But he was unable to learn to read,...
This book is mostly boring, and when it's interesting, it's often grotesque. I'm not a big fan of stories where the main character is a druggie anyway, even though this is an interesting addiction, to be sure.
More 2.5 stars for me.Berg can write. Her prose is rich. Her world building is great. She gives the right amount of detail. She starts the story in a good place.Sadly, I had trouble keeping people straight. I kept forgetting who was who, and Valen's style of telling the story can at times dista...
4 stars
10 years ago
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