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A Scottish-Canadian Blethering On About Books rated it

8 years ago

text Stalking Darkness (Flewelling)

The sequel to "Luck in the Shadows", this novel essentially closes the story arc relating to the ritualistic reconstitution of an ancient object of power by a nasty modern-day pair (a politician and a wizard, of course). It also sees the first kiss between our two heroes, who have certainly dilly-da...

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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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fruitcakes rated it

10 years ago

text Casket of Souls

OH THANK GOODNESS, WE WENT BACK TO SPY STUFF. These books work SO MUCH BETTER when they're dealing with kingdom/social politics rather than yk, magic maybe evil alchemy babies. Kinda wish there was more resolution on the soul stealing plot, but it was so nice to get back into Flewelling's wheelhouse...

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fruitcakes rated it

10 years ago

text Shadows Return

Felt phoned in and unnecessarily grim. Very much a "gotta write this book so we can angst about it in the next book" feel.

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fruitcakes rated it

10 years ago

text Stalking Darkness

Ugh, these books held up so much better than I thought they would. Really solid high fantasy genre.

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maarjao rated it

10 years ago

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This series is good classic fantasy (with the exception that the MCs' romantic interests are broader than normal - but the romance is rather in the background and there's no on-page sex). In this book, events moved quicker and there was more action than in the first part of the series, which was a b...

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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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