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by Lynn Flewelling

A Scottish-Canadian Blethering On About Books rated it

8 years ago

text Luck in the Shadows (Flewelling)

Back before I discovered the amazing and sometimes awful world of slash fanfiction, I grew interested in a somewhat similar phenomenon, though more muted, in published science fiction and fantasy by women, featuring gender transgressions (well, transgressions in those days) amongst mostly male chara...

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Ivie Hill's Rant Rampage rated it

10 years ago

text Luck in the Shadows

There is a lot to be said for a fantasy that has an m-m cast. There isn't many around (or more likely I haven't read many), and it was refreshingly lacking the typical hero cliché that usually accompanies such novels, and that would be a young girl at the cusp of adulthood with the classic first kis...

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maarjao rated it

10 years ago

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the story moves a bit slowly, but the worldbuilding as well as the writing is pretty good, so overall, it's an enjoyable read

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maarjao rated it

10 years ago

text Luck in the Shadows

the story moves a bit slowly, but the worldbuilding as well as the writing is pretty good, so overall, it's an enjoyable read

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Mammarella rated it

10 years ago

text Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling

1.5 stars, where half star is for the nice cover art. It's not even the lack of m/m romance, it's the lack of adventure and consistency, the fact that the opening line of the story is dropped and forgotten by 30%, the fact that prose takes on purplish tint through the middle for no reason at all t...

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DayDreamer rated it

11 years ago

text Luck in the Shadows

It is, apparently, my summer with a fantasy theme reading. I'm really not complaining. Luck in the Shadows feels less oppressive than Fitz's first person POV, and the fact that it was 200 pages shorther than Hobb's Assassin's Quest helped a lot. Sorry, I can't help but compare them: I read the la...

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bookaneer rated it

11 years ago

text It's fantasy, "by Sakor!"/"Bilairy's codpiece!"/"Aura elthe!", can you tell?

I'm not sure what's happened to me lately. Am I now constitutionally unable to choose books I enjoy, or am I becoming increasingly bitter, nitpicking, and discontented in my reviews? Whatever the case, I'm afraid Luck in the Shadows was not an exception to my ill-humour. Luck in the Shadows is a m...

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A Total Inability To Connect rated it

12 years ago

text Luck in the Shadows

Writing: 4Story/Plot: 4Depth/Detail: 4Enjoyment: 4[b:Luck In The Shadows|74270|Luck in the Shadows (Nightrunner, #1)|Lynn Flewelling|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1345640615s/74270.jpg|2495] was an interesting, well-written thief-type, coming of age, young student and mentor type story....

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Dreamer rated it

12 years ago

text Luck in the Shadows

At long last I have finished this audiobook. It is NOT an m/m romance, it is a young adult fantasy with two male lead characters. Possibly it heats up in subsequent books of the series but there is NO SEX in this book, not even a kiss! I did like the characters of Seregil and Alec but I completely l...

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Wyvernfriend Reads rated it

12 years ago

text Luck in the Shadows (Nightrunner, Vol. 1)

This is a story about a wrongly imprisoned boy, Alec of Kerry, who is rescued by Seregil of Rhiminee. Alec is young and is unsure of his future since his father died and now has an opportunity. He realises that there are secrets Seregil holds and this attracts him. The plots going on around Sereg...

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