Shadowborn
From the author of Lightborn, the third book in a Regency- flavored fantasy series of magic and manners. Magic dies with the mage, or so the Darkborn believe. That's why Lady Telmaine Hearne has been condemned to death for sorcery. She's escaped but is now bound with her mageborn allies for the...
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From the author of Lightborn, the third book in a Regency- flavored fantasy series of magic and manners. Magic dies with the mage, or so the Darkborn believe. That's why Lady Telmaine Hearne has been condemned to death for sorcery. She's escaped but is now bound with her mageborn allies for the Borders and war. Meanwhile, her husband, Balthasar, has learned of his family connection to the Shadowborn-and is fighting for survival and sanity as magic turns him against everything he holds dear.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780451463944 (0451463943)
Publish date: June 7th 2011
Publisher: Roc Trade
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Series: Darkborn (#3)
I enjoyed this final book in the trilogy, though not as much as Lightborn. Using the first third of the book to catch up on a plotline that runs concurrently with the second book works fairly well, and though the ending is rushed and leaves some threads hanging, it isn’t as bad as I’d been led to be...
I am not pleased with the conclusion of this trilogy. I was enjoying it tremendously (the second one being my absolute favorite) until about the last fifty pages of this book. There are so many questions left unanswered and many events that were unnecessary to the plot took place! I am quite upset w...
I really enjoyed the first book in this series, Darkborn. The next one – Lightborn – expanded on the characters and the plot, bringing in politics and tension. So I had high hopes for the conclusion, Shadowborn…This one’s lighter on the characters I enjoyed in the previous two books – namely Lady Te...
*Rating* 3.0*Genre* Fantasy/Science Fiction*Review*Shadowborn, by Alison Sinclair, is the final book in the Darkborn Trilogy. Unfortunately, I am one of those who really didn't enjoy this story as much as the first two. It was a convoluted story that took the identity of something that appeared to h...
After two books of setting up factions and mysteries, Shadowborn had a lot of loose ends to tie off. Unfortunately, I found its knot-work less than satisfying.The good guys spend rather a lot of time puzzling over the bad guys' capricious timing and oddly varied level of attacks, concluding "there m...
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