by Rachel Neumeier
Where has Rachel Neumeier been all my life? Seriously, this woman’s novels are written just the way I like love them to be written and needless to say, after reading just one novel of hers, I’m a self-proclaimed fan. House of Shadows is, beyond anything else, a fantasy. In fact, it’s one of the few ...
Opening line: "In a city of grey stone and mist, between the steep rain-swept mountains and the sea, there lived a merchant with his eight daughters."After a long wait, due to the vagaries of the postal service, I finally got my copy of Rachel Neumeier's latest, House of Shadows. After The City in t...
The book blurb is quite misleading - the story doesn't really center around the two sisters so much as it does around a political intrigue. The main povs are Taudde, a foreign sorceror, Leilis, a woman working in the flower house, and Nemienne, studying sorcery.I enjoyed the lovely prose and the int...
I have conflicted feelings about this book. The bones and essence of the story are so well done, magical and lyrical and exciting. Mixed around it, however, were undeniably long stretches that just didn't interest me at all. Neumeier did her initial work too well, meaning I was focused Karah and ...
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