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| Original Title: | The Traitor And the Chalice (Lyremouth Chronicles) |
| ISBN: | 1933110430 (ISBN13: 9781933110431) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.janefletcher.co.uk/Books-Traitor.htm |
| Series: | Lyremouth Chronicles #2 |
| Characters: | Tevi, Jemeryl |
Jane Fletcher
Paperback | Pages: 335 pages Rating: 4.07 | 526 Users | 17 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Traitor and the Chalice (Lyremouth Chronicles #2) |
| Author | : | Jane Fletcher |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 335 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 2006 by Bold Strokes Books |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. GLBT. Lesbian. LGBT. Romance. Lesbian Fiction |
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2 stars... Probably the most boring read of 2018 for me. The first book set up everything well enough that I thought this second book will be nothing but joy to read. Instead, I was mind-numbingly bored all throughout the book. I read in anticipation for it to get good but it never did.More than half of the book is spent in an extremely boring port city where never anything happens. The main characters barely interact with each other because one of them is undercover and when they do meet it's either to share more boring information or to drop the extremely inventive line of all time "I love you." Their dialogue is dry and unimaginative.
Then there's Tevi, a woman that's strong as 5 men put together. There should be a lot of juicy fights, right? WRONG! She barely does anything in this second book. I wanted more fights like the bandit raid in the first book. Some excitement but, nope, nothing. The Checkov's gun was barely unholstered and then put back without nothing interesting ever happening. All Tevi does is get offended when Jemeryl says something wrong which then is resolved 5 seconds later when Jem explains herself. Their relationship just doesn't work, there is no spark, no chemistry there.
The murder mystery was boring. It takes too long to resolve and the main villain is also boring. The chase after the villain was disjointed, repetitive and boring. The mage fights were too esoteric and hard to understand and therefore boring.
The small-time skips are also weird and make the book harder to read. Same as the sudden POV changes without warning. And that word for word copy/pasted conversation from the first book in the middle of this book also seemed way out of place.
And what's up with the anti-climatic ending? I wanted for her to return and show her family who's the boss. Instead, she hides in a corner like she always did. Hero's journey? What hero's journey...
This book is just so... boring. Filled with lots of unfulfilled promise, unfortunately. Some reviewers mention that the first book is the weakest of the series. I disagree, I actually liked the first book far better than this trainwreck.
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Ratings: 4.07 From 526 Users | 17 ReviewsDiscuss Regarding Books The Traitor and the Chalice (Lyremouth Chronicles #2)
Excellent characters and story. If you like Fantasy/SciFi and are queer you should really enjoy this series.I binge read this in a little over twenty four hours. I absolutely love this series and think Jane Fletcher is probably my favorite lesbian author. Fun story, with pages that keep you turning and a sweet romance. I highly recommend.
Keep on reading...let's get to book 3
Science fiction/fantasy adventure books by and about women, with single (unmarried), childless, female protagonists, and plots that do not sound like dystopian newspaper articles, are hard to find. So I was very pleased to find this one. It has a few unexpected turns, thoughtful development, and two adventuring women characters to follow. I only wish the author would write more books.
This is a 2.5 stars rounded up to three. This book is mostly confusing. You switch from one scene to another so quickly you get lost.You go from one great part to a pretty boring one and it goes on in a cycle. The last part was the worse, with old sorcerer, hermaphrodite's dwarves and mad hermit. I was dubious about the fact that sorcerer and non-magic user relationship are frown about by both sides... Seing the ratio sorcerer-main population, how are they supposed to have a life ? Especially
For whatever reason, I do not seem as interested in writing reviews for Fletcher books. Not sure why.So, the story continues here in part two of the series and . . . I come immediately to why I didnt write anything the only real thing I wanted to say was something too spoilery to say so . . . (view spoiler)[This book here works quite well as an end note on the duology, except, you know, this isnt actually the end book on a 2 book series so . . .. (hide spoiler)]Tevi and Jemeryl continue on
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