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Summary: And so it continues beautifully
Review: _Heir to the Shadows_ focuses on Jaenelle's relationship with her adoptive family, particularly her foster-brother Lucivar, an Eyrien warlord prince who is dark and affectionate and fascinating. It introduces readers to Jaenelle's inner circle of friends(of many different species), and furthers the plot as Jaenelle comes into her full power. Very highly recommended.
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Summary: Heir to the Shadows - book 2 of the Black Jewels Trilogy
Review: I thought this book was a great sequel to the first book, Daughter of the Blood. It had a wonderful plot and cast of characters. When Daemon falls into the Twisted Kingdom, Jaenelle comes back from the Abyss, and Lucivar comes to Ebon Askavi, Saetan has quite a bit to deal with. Jaenelle makes friends with the Kindred and brings a wolf pack to the woods that surround the Hall. She regularly visits unicorns, arcerian cats, etc. Then she finds out about Daemon. She creates a shadow of herself to go to Tereille and bring Daemon back from the Twisted Kingdom. This book should definately be a must on any fantasy lover's book list.
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Summary: Purely Sensual
Review: Anne Bishop is a wonderful writer. Her characters are so beleivable and so complex that they seem to step off the pages of the book and join you.
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Summary: Just Keeps Getting Better!
Review: After I read the first book in the series, I picked up this one one as soon as I could make it to a book store. The second book picks up the story of Jaenelle, Saetan, and his sons, Daemon and Lucivar. Jaenelle is no longer a sweet, innocent child, but a young woman racked with inner turmoil. Her mind and her body are still fragile and amnesia shadows the traumatic events that occured. Daemon is trapped in the Twisted Kingdom and can no longer come to her aid. Lucivar is convinced that she is dead and that Daemon was the one to kill her. And the three Realms are enveloped in ever increasing stife as Hekatah and Dorothae weave their intricate schemes to rule Kaeleer.Bishop's books are dark, hard, frightening and grotesque. But they are also light, beautiful, funny, and heart-warming. She brings her characters to life and their problems become your own. I can't remember the last time I got so caught up in a world.
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Summary: the best of the triology
Review: I loved this one. The first one I spent a lot of time wanting to learn about briarwood school and the third one I spent a lot of time trying to follow the story line. But the second one had a lot of dark humor. Saetan the high lord of hell trying to raise a teenage daughter and driving his staff crazy in the process. (an anaology for todays teenagers? ) There could be some moral difficulties for people reading this series mostly in light of the fact that it appears that hell and all of it minions are good, and that the living is the antagonist. That Saetan and Luciver and mephis and every one else is just trying to do a job and witches are the ones that love and balance the land. Suspened your thoughts of black and white and admire the irony of it. I suppose of thousands of years torture would stop being fun and start being a job and that these minions don't really want others down here. That they look to provide rest. It does have its dark and graphic parts that are necessary to convey the landscape but sit back and enjoy the anctics of a 15 year old girl with too much power and a good heart.
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Summary: Very Disappointing. Absolutely sad.
Review: I am VERY disappointed. I hadn't been expecting a book equal to the first one- I've read too much so-called "great sequels" to be so naive- but I didn't think that it could be so HORRIBLE! I mean, the first book WAS great. I thought that the second book would at least be GOOD. But no, that is not the case. It is one of the MOST PRETENTIOUS book that I've read. NOTHING sounds real. I absolutely HATED the characters. How could the author mess them up so much? If the first book hadn't made them so life-like and interesting, I wouldn't have hated them so much, but the changed SO MUCH! It's like Anne Bishop crushed them and changed them back to flat letters that they really are. And the plot. Where has the plot gone to? Is this a NOVEL? Hey, but what EXACTLY happend in the book? The whole entire book could have been compressed into about two chapters or so, and it should have been. And you can't really believe the story. The part of the story about Jaenelle's mind being healed and stuff, well, gosh. My final words: I wish I hadn't read this. It totally messed up the beautiful vision I'd gotten from the first book.
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Summary: Wonderful, moving, great sequel
Review: Bishop keeps the trilogy alive with this second book. The continuing story of Jenelle, is moving and emotional. The battles, though not spectacular, and the physical enemies, though week, are not the point of this book. It is the inner psychological battle of the young witch, where she is her only fomidable enemy. This book was a real page turner, I recommend heartily the series for and fantasy fan.
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Summary: Hell's Fire
Review: Heir to the Darkness is a great book. It stands up to the first book of the Black Jeweled Triolgy, Daughter of Blood. Poor Jaenelle is suffering from her broken and pasted together chalice mind. Daemon's chalice couldn't hold itself together and now he roams in the twisted kingdom. Lucivar is in the salt mines slowly rotting away. Saetan has definatly grown soft, although he still has the evil edge, he still has a heart. I love every page of this novel and can't wait to read the next book, Queen of the Darkness. May the darkness protect all who travels into the world of Witch!
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Summary: Heir to the Shadows
Review: Best book I've ever read! A Must read. I LOVE the caritors, vary well writen. The charitors (Jaenelle a.k.a Witch, Saetan, Daemon, and Lucivar), are the best writen that I've seen. Surreal, Tersa and -of corce- Karla "Kiss.Kiss." are also very good. There are other charitors to prase but that would take too long. I Really, Really love this trilogy!
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Summary: Romance and Dark Magic
Review: I love the entire Dark Jewels Trilogy (which should have had *four* books) The combinations of Appalling cuteness, dizzying humor and breath taking horror make it a satisfying read. You have to love a book where a 50,000 year old undead sorceror has the mind-numbing task of playing "Father Knows Best" for a Avatar of Magic...who also happens to be a teenaged girl.I loved the psychology of the characters, the descriptions of Daemon's madness, and of course Lucivar's escape from Pruul...this was a good book but it went by *way* to fast...I'd also like to point out that Saetan is not *the* satan of christian faith, nor is "Lucivar" the "other guy"....
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