In Ashes Lie
by:
Marie Brennan (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780316052856 (031605285X)
Publish date: June 10th 2009
Publisher: Orbit
Edition language: English
Series: Onyx Court (#2)
Once I find an author that I love I tend to read any and all of their books that are available and Marie Brennan is one such author. An excellent second installment in the series and I very much look forward to reading the third book.
There was, I think, a pretty good 300 page book buried in here somewhere. I enjoyed the historical fiction sections, although I'm not sure trying to throw the rise and fall of King Charles, the plague, and the Great Fire of London all into one book was a good idea. Unfortunately, the faerie sections...
While Midnight Never Come was very much a “talky” book—a lot of the action and tension came from the dialogue and backstory—the follow-up was a much more action-packed and exciting read. While the sections switching off between the Protestant Revolution and the Great Fire of 1666 are a bit jarring a...