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Summary: best book yet
Review: this book was the best one out of the whole series. All the books were good but this one was the best. I couldnt put the book down i finished it in 2 days and considering how slow i am that was good.
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Summary: The wonderful conclusion to a stunning trilogy.
Review: This is the third and final volume of The Book of Words (after The Baker's Boy and A Man Betrayed).In Bren, the duke has just been murdered on his wedding night. Thanks to Baralis, quickly the rumours spread, claiming that Tawl the duke's champion and former Knight of Valdis, is the assasin. He and Melli, now the duke's widow, have to flee and hide away, along with Maybor and a couple of guards. About a month later, king Kylock, who is becoming more and more deranged by the day under the effects of Baralis's drugs, kills his bride on discovering she is not pure and will not be able to wash his sins away. What he and Baralis will soon find out is that the first marriage had been in fact consummated. Melli is pregnant and now, if the child turns out to be a boy, with Bren's only rightful heir. Meanwhile, Jack is in Annis, learning to master his magical powers with the help of Stillfox. One day, on a sudden impulse he leaves the sorcerer's cottage, and on his way he meets with a guild of bakers who will fill him in on the event in Bren. Melli is in danger, he has to go and try to save her. The Book of Words is a harrowing fantasy. In a land revaged by war, Marod's prophecy slowly unfolds with unexpected twists and turns, as Jack learns more and more about his past. With characters worth caring for, the detailed and sometimes colourful descriptions make it all believable. J.V. Jones is now swelling the ranks of my favourite authors.
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Summary: Big plot continuity errors!
Review: While I liked the first two books by Jones, I was very disappointed by the third book. While there is clearly an unconsummated marriage in the end of Book 2 and a hinted prophecy that Melli's hymen would only be broken by Jack, this is all ditched in the revisionist opening of the third book. Such glaring plot discontinuities suggest to me that the author either forgot what she had previously written or couldn't figure out how to work towards her prophecy and ditched all in order to conveniently wrap the series up. I am also disappointed by the corresponding shift in focus to Tawl at the expense of Jack. Jack seems to have dropped out of most of the plot development all of a sudden when he and Melli were the focus of the first two books. Now he's on his own when most of the action seems to revolve around Tawl and Melli. Hey! Editor! What were you thinking!?
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