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Summary: Daughter of the Blood (bk. 1 of the Black Jewels Trilogy
Review: This book is one of the best books I've ever read. It focuses mostly on the relationship between Daemon and Jaenelle by showing the love between the two. I was almost unable to put it down! It should be a good book for everyone no matter what your taste in books. I felt that I was left hanging at the end, but Ms. Bishop had already written the other two - Heir to the Shadows and Queen of the Darkness - and so got to finish the trilogy right away. I was very pleased with it and think you will be too.
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Summary: What a great find! If you like Sheri S. Tepper, read this!
Review: What a surprise! I had run out of new books by my favorite authors, so I gave this book a try. How wonderful to be so surprised. I read the entire thing in one day - alternating between laughing and crying. Ms. Bishop has crafted a wonderful new world and peopled it with dark people that engage the imagination.Read this one!
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Summary: Dark, touching, and captivating
Review: As soon I read the first couple of pages this book immediately sucked me into the world of Anne Bishop's creating. Bishop makes the characters in this book come alive. Jaenelle is a character you can fall in love with. She's sweet, funny, innocent, and wise well beyond her years. When she's sad, so was I; and when she's happy I couldn't help but laugh at some of the things she said. She's also the most powerful witch to have ever existed. She's definately not any witch, she is Witch. And she's only a child yet. The story involves two men, one of which is Saetan, the High Lord of Hell, who are not exactly enemies but definitely not friends, struggling to work together, or at least not against each other, for the sake of protecting and influencing Jaenelle for the better. She's young and can still be corrupted like the other women in this world where women rule over men, enslaving and torturing them. Why did I only give this book four stars? I definitely would give it five except for one thing. The caste hierarchy and jewel ranking system was a bit confusing despite the charts at the beginning of the book, but were eventually figured out. In short, I loved this book, and could not put it down; when I did put it down, I expected to see Jaenelle or Saetan himself in the room with me.
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Summary: Interesting book
Review: It is a very good book. I wasn't sure I will like it, but once I started I couln't stop. I read it in 2 days and I immediately went and bought the 2 sequels. One of the reviewers were right about it being for older readers because of some of the contents. I gave it a 5 because it got me hook but not because it was satisfying. You'll know at the end of the book, but otherwise it was great. To tell you something of the book, it is about Jaenelle, Daemon, Lucivar, and Saetan. Jaenelle has awesome powers that her family doesn't know of. They sent her to Briarwood, a mental asylum, for her supposed lies about meeting unicorns and other such magical creatures. Briarwood is a cover for more twisted activities the "uncles" do there. "Uncles" are men who likes to rape little girls. Saetan is her mentor in the craft(magic). He is like a father to her unlike her real father. He gave her love and attention. Daemon is her destined consort. He helped rescue her at the end. Lucivar is Saeton's son and Daemon's half-brother. He doesn't play such a big role in this book but wait til the next book. Nothing really horrible happen except the surprise I told you about at the end of the book. I hope I help you.
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Summary: Wonderful Read
Review: I'm not sure what I went into this book expecting, however I came out dying to get the next book (or 2 as the case may be). This is simply a great book. The plot is reasonably straightforward, but clearly this is the book in the series/triology that sets the theme and introduces the reader to the characters. There are enough interesting, but dark, turns to show that Ms. Bishop really knows what she's doing. The characters are really what grabbed me. There really wasn't one that was a clunker, a good amount of depth to each character, although Janelle is a bit of an enigma, but that's appropriate to her nature. If you like L.E. Modessit or J.V. Jones (Baker's Boy not Mad Ship) you'll definitely like this book.
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Summary: A terrible book
Review: This book reads like thinly disguised child pornography. I found the subject matter unpleasant and the writing poor. If you like sex and violence with little girls and if you don't care about predictable, flat characters, you might be able to finish the book.
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Summary: Daughter of the Blood -- Enchantingly Dark
Review: This, and the other books in this series, are my favorite. I own them all, love them to death, and force them on all my poor friends. It's darker fantasy, but not morbid or bloody. You fall in love with the characters, the world it's set in, the plotline -- in short, everything. This first book introduces Jaenelle, Daemon (I love this guy. Never met a tastier "dark and powerful" character, yum yum.), Lucivar (Daemon's half-brother. They're complete opposites, though he's fairly yummy too.), and their father Saetan, Ruler of Hell (great guy.). Truly, you'll love this book and all the others once you read it. I give this a ten out of ten on any rating scale. And then I'd suggest buying it and it's sequels so you can reccomend them to your friends and beg them to discuss it with you ("Well? What do you think? Hmmm? HMMMM?"). You really MUST read this book if you like dark fantasy, because if you haven't read it you really don't know what you're missing. What I like most about this book is it's characters and compelling plot ("Didn't you like the ending to the third book? I LOVED it!"). The part I liked least, of course, was that it had to end at all...
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Summary: A humorous dark fantasy?
Review: Anne Bishop manages to combine both humor and dark fantasy in a unique world. I loved the strong female protagonist in this series. Word to the wise:this book is for mature audiences.
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Summary: WONDERFUL!
Review: This book was easily the best book I have ever read! I was almost crying when I had to finish the last book, Queen of the Darkness because I couldn't read more about the characters. A MUST BUY!
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Summary: Mother Night!
Review: To say that this book is great is probably the understatement of the year. I was mezmorized by the sexual darkness wrapped around the book. From youthful carefree days of traveling along the web, looking for anyone who wants to talk; to the youthful pain of realization that the world isn't as kind as a child needs it to be. Daemon the sexual lover and cold-hearted. Lucivar the wildly free brother and evil in his own extent. Saetan, the father, Lord of Hell, and most powerful Black-Jeweled Worlord-Prince ever lived. Jeanelle, the powerful little girl/Witch, whom everyone would die for. Full of evil, lust, death, pain, and the joyfulness of a child's laugh, "Daughter of the Blood" is one book I'll be sure to keep at the front of my library. The darkness has engulfed me. With two days under my belt for this first of the Black Jewel Trilogy, I'm eager to eat up the next novel "Heir to the Shadows."
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