by Janny Wurts
Very intense and emotional epic fantasy of mature scope and depth, a book that can be experienced as a self-contained story yet it's the stage setter of a longer series, which I'm currently reading and enjoying immensely.I loved the richly detailed and researched descriptions and the harmonic world-...
April 2015: After the powerful ending of Stormed Fortress, the way the story threads converge, I was so satisfied that I had to start Initiate's Trial, a short story set on the world of Athera centuries earlier than Mistwraith's opening, and some names and facts sounded familiar, it was more immedia...
The Curse of the Mistwraith is the first of an eight book series. It focuses on two half brothers who posses the powers of Light and Shadow between them. PoVs switch between said half-brothers and some of the other major characters. I didn't like this book much. The story is interesting enough, bu...
Janny Wurts - Curse of the MistwraithArithon S'Ffalenn and Lysaer S'Ilessid are princes of two kingdoms which have been at war for centuries. They are also half-brothers on their mother's side, and each have a gift of elemental magic through her. Lysaer recieved no training in his powers of light ...
Unfortunately, I did not enjoy Mistwraith at all. I literally was forcing myself to read 50 to 100 pages at a time, before I'd lose interest and set it down again. Had the plot been told in a more linear fashion, with less background and more actual action, I might have enjoyed it more. The writin...
I had a strange reaction to this book, and I know part of that reaction is due to the fact that I hate, really really hate, the whole cliche elder sibling theme that started in fairy tales. I know it's me, and to be fair, that is part of my reaction.Wurts does a wonderful job world building, and th...
5 stars
5 stars
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