by Sarah Monette
Genre: Adult Fantasy The Blurb: The dashing wizard Felix Harrowgate has reclaimed his sanity, magic, and position in society. But even as he returns to his former place in the Mirador-the citadel of power and wizardry-there are many who desire his end. Mildmay the Fox is an ex-assassin, a cat-burgl...
Actually, I might not even read this, cuz it's probably going to be like bk 2 in the Bartimaeus Trilogy - actually, it's got 4 books now, I think - when Nathaniel becomes a complete jack-ass and I didn't really want to read it and it was excruciating and I really wanted him not to be but he was all ...
This book in the series feels like an intermission. We're just hanging around in the Mirador and there are a bunch of little, non-urgent mysteries being pursued by way of plot. You kind of figure that, seemingly unrelated, they'll all come together somehow, and they do, but not until the very end, w...
3.75Felix and Mildmay continue to break my heart... so much pain they deal with and they internalize it all.I guess I felt there was so much filler... SM could have easily cut some stuff out, it felt unnecessary.Overall, a good book and a good addition to the series. Will be reading Corambis very s...
Warning: This review contains massive spoilers. I talk about the end of the book. Read at your own peril.I love this series and this book and I'm very distressed that the next book isn't due out until 2009. This time around there were scenes from Mehitabel's point of view as well as Mildmay's and...
This is the third book in Monette's series. Felix and his younger brother Mildmay have returned to the Mirador, where court politics and dark magic are once again complicating their already complicated lives. All the main characters' love lives are complicated and fucked up, *of course*, and I enj...
I tried to get into this book several times. Didn't work for me. The author's writing seemed fine. This is usually up my alley but I just couldn't get into it.
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