Rating: Summary: Too much for one book Review: I liked the first two books alot a was waiting for the thrid forever. I will have to start by saying that i did and did not like it at the same time. It feels like the auther is trying to make to make too many things happin at once in one book. I get the feeling like the story is being pushed along and parts are being left out. I mean Lireil is a kick [...]wizzard and she casts like four spells in the book. Ya she used her magic but most of it was her drow traits-fairy fire, levitation, etc. [...]
Rating: Summary: Not good enough to be worth reading Review: I love reading about Drow, and so normally I am willing to cut any books about them a bit of slack. Unfortunately, this book was so bad that even I couldn't enjoy it. The characterization is bad - the one character I had any empathy for at all was a sea elf who appears in about six pages total. The character motivation is bad - many characters do things for no explicable reason but to attempt to move the plot along. The villains are bad - they don't grow or change a bit from Tangled Webs. Also, and most importantly, the storyline is bad - it is so choppy that I often checked to see if I had accidentally skipped a page. Do your pocketbook a favor and buy a different book.
Rating: Summary: Not good enough to be worth reading Review: I love reading about Drow, and so normally I am willing to cut any books about them a bit of slack. Unfortunately, this book was so bad that even I couldn't enjoy it. The characterization is bad - the one character I had any empathy for at all was a sea elf who appears in about six pages total. The character motivation is bad - many characters do things for no explicable reason but to attempt to move the plot along. The villains are bad - they don't grow or change a bit from Tangled Webs. Also, and most importantly, the storyline is bad - it is so choppy that I often checked to see if I had accidentally skipped a page. Do your pocketbook a favor and buy a different book.
Rating: Summary: The Ending Sucked Review: I read all three books in the course of a weekend. The story started out so well in Daughter and I was completely drawn in in Tangled Webs. (I have never read anything by this author before, so I have no other books to compare it to.) Fodyor reminded me so much of my husband, so rageful, but yet so gentle, so I was really looking forward to seeing them get together and starting a family of their own. I know, I know, a drow and a human... would never happen... The Gods drew me in, I wanted to know how the issues with Lloth and the other gods were going to turn out. Having never read any other drow books, I didn't even know about the evil spider queen (And yes, I do play D&D) but she had no redeeming qualities so I was hoping for the traitor god or the druid god to win out. Anyhow, I was swept along, until the ending. It was going so well, and I had such hopes and dreams for the characters. She was going to get her rune and get her magic, and Fydor would be cured, and all would live in a happy, static world with little ill repercussions. Ha! :)
Rating: Summary: Doesn't live up to the first two Review: I really enjoyed Daughter of the Drow, and Tangled Webs was pretty good, but it seemed that this series went a bit downhill as it continued. Liriel looked almost weak and killing off Fyodor wasn't, in my eyes, a very good idea. Plus, Liriel giving Shatki the mask to take on her form was just confusing. I expected an epic battle between Liriel and Shatki but it was a bit of an anti-climax. It was overall a good series, but I wish the ending was different.
Rating: Summary: Why? Why? Why? Review: I was waiting a long time for this book. When I found out it was coming, I was excited. Finally, a finish to the trilogy of books that I have read dozens of times! I rushed out and bought it as soon as it was released. I couldn't wait to get it home and start reading. The book took me about a month to finish. I just couldn't stand to read it. Why did the author have to kill off so many characters? Why did she have to bring back the same old villains? Why did she end the Liriel/Fyodor love story like that? Was the author trying to end the series in a way that would prevent her from ever having to write more about these(and other) characters? The book, in my opinion, could have taken a much different turn. This book could have been a whole lot better. I, for one, will never pick it up and read it ever again. My imagination is better.
Rating: Summary: Wow... Review: Liriel is back, and she's in a big mess this time! If you enjoyed the previous books in the trilogy you'll LOVE this one. Despite the (many) typos in the book this is probably the best written of the three. Cunningham seems to be much more at ease with her characters. The ending really left me wanting more. I really hope there are plans to write more about Liriel and her adventures.
Rating: Summary: Great Book, but what next? Review: My older cousin was the one who got me hooked on this book. I dont want to ruin it for anyone, so I wont say how it ends. But there has to be at least another book out there, another adventure for Liriel? And for those who couldn't follow the reading style, I'm 12 and I got through it! It is really good!!!
Rating: Summary: Good book, but the ending is gutless Review: Overall a good story that flows well and keeps with the same flavor as the first two books in the series.
My problem with the book is the ending was completely gutless.
SPOILERS***
By killing Fyodor they took away the best part of the story. They could have taken their story to the level no other FR writer has, and how a realtionship between a human and a drow would work. And I for one would have loved to see a half drow, half human berserker warrior.
It seems this story was set up so Fyodor would die and Liriel could go off with the two new elf characters, who dispite all the mystery surrounding them just weren't that interesting.
If I had a vote I would want Fyodor back Wulgar style, until they do I think I am done reading about Liriel, as even though her and Fyodor together was great I am not interested in her enough to read her without him (though I would read a Fyodor solo story). Liriel is basically a female Drizz't, while Fyodor's potential, especially with his shape shifting abilities, has huge potential as a story leading character.
Rating: Summary: A let down Review: Tangled Webs was an amazing book. EC should have ended the story there. Nothing really happens in this book. Liriel and Fydor planewalk across fearun to Rasheman where they have a fight with the bad guys from book one; the end. You learn a little bit about rasheman history and culture, but that is really the only positive about the book.
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