Fortune and Fate (Twelve Houses Series #5)
by:
Sharon Shinn (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781616790608 (1616790601)
Publish date: November 4th 2008
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Series: Twelve Houses (#5)
As a stand alone book, this was a pretty good story. I loved the action, and I loved seeing Wen deal with her past. However, I just didn't really feel like this book was necessary to the series. This is actually really weird to me because normally I don't want the series to end, and I just wish for ...
This is one of my favorite fantasy novels. I love it and have read it at least three times. The protagonist Wen is on the run from her private demons. Two years ago, she was a King’s Rider, a respected member of the elite palace guard, until a disaster struck: during her watch, the king was assassin...
2.5/ 3 starsIt took me a very long time, after nearly tossing this aside, to fall into the story and even then it was because I liked Cammon, and Senneth and Justin and Kira - all the Riders and old friends and their connections with each other. I had no patience for Wen's hangups and death-wish bec...
Fortune and Fate suffers from the same issue as most of the previous books in the series: very little actually happens. Most of them were a prequel to the main action, with lots of road trips and gathering of information; this one is a clean-up after the action, with, oddly enough, lots of road trip...
I was very pleased by this book. I went in not thinking I would like it as it was not centered around my beloved rag tag group of 6, but the characters in this were just as endearing. We were even treated to a bit of the original characters which was just enough to tie the story lines together and...
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