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Summary: The Lady of the Sorrows
Review: I just finished reading The Lady of the Sorrows. While reading CDT's first book ~ The Ill Made Mute I had to, halfway through it go out and buy the next one just so that i could be sure that i would have the next one to go onto as soon as i finished. I found the Lady of the Sorrows to be just as great as the Ill Made Mute. Both books just carry you off into another world that in some ways is more real than our own. CDT weaves through her words a world full of adventure love and magic topped off with the perfect sounding guy in looks and personality (please dont let him die!!). She creates using her words a sense of langothe or longing to be imersed in the next book. I would recomend this book to anyone who loves to read and to those who dont. The book is easy to get into and just flows along like a boat on smooth waters.
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Summary: Extraordinary, brilliant, amazing!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I loved the first book in this series, The Ill-Made Mute, and I honestly didn't think anything could be better. I was wrong. The Lady of the Sorrows is brilliant!!!! The detail, the characters, the tension, the unexpected twists, all had me glued to the pages like a reading addict. I won't outline the plot in case I spoil the surprises for others. Suffice to say, Get This Book And Read It.
You won't regret it!
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Summary: The Lady of the Sorrows
Review: I loved this book just as much as the first. I bought them both together and one I finished the Ill Made Mute was straight on to this one. The characters are so intriguing and well writen that you can find yourself within there world. I loved this book and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good fantasy novel. Bring on the Battle of Evernight I need to find out what happens.
Well done Ms Dart-Thorn keep writing I will read anything of yours now.
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Summary: Written with the same delicacy and elegance as the first...
Review: I read a lot of science fiction and fantasy every year, and it's rare that a book strikes me as much as did _The Ill-Made Mute_, the first book of the Bitterbynde. I've been waiting with impatience for the second book to hit paperback and have to say devoured it with the same eagerness as the first. Dart-Thornton combines familiar folklore and myth with a fantasy world to stunning effect. Her writing employs quite a bit of detailed description without ever becoming precious or straining too hard for the poetry. Where the first book focused on the journey of Imrhien through the wilds of Erith, this second book treats the elevation to Rohain, a grand court lady. What's wonderful is how Dart-Thornton manages to convey the same mystery about court customs that she does about the wilderness, and of course, to her heroine, both are mysteries. If I have any quarrel at all with the book, I thought that the folklore was rather less well-integrated than in the first and I wasn't as always quite as at ease with some of the folklore-based explanations in the latter part of the book. However, given the strength of the first two novels, I trust that the third will clarify the points that I was missing in a more than adequate way. Should amply satisfy anyone who liked the first book.
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Summary: A beautiful book which leaves many questions
Review: I read the first book in this trilogy (The Ill-Made Mute) slowly at first, and then at some point I looked down and I was at the end of the book reeling! I practically ran out to get Lady of the Sorrows, and it lived up to every expectation. I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but some of the scenes towards the middle were so utterly beautiful that my heart went into double speed! Imrhien is changed, changed utterly from the drudge, mute, disfigured creature she once was. She goes to court in search of the Dainnan Thorn. In this book Dart-Thornton weaves in fascinating details from medieval court life, tinged with the special irish/scottish folklore magic that she has such a touch with. Overall the book has a lighter feel to it and there are many pleasant details of the palace and further renditions of old gaelic tales. There are still wights galore, seelie and unseelie. As we travel into the second half things grow darker. In her search for her memory, Imrhien, or Rohain, runs into the darker unseelie wights, the Hunt...and all the while she has no idea where her beloved Thorn is. As the book progresses we finally find some of Imrhien's past, and with Imrhien's past come explanations of her current state and further questions about the people surrounding her new and old life. I cannot recommend this book enough, I was left with a desperate thirst for the third book, which I have since satisfied, and I hope all readers will have the same chance to read The Battle of Evernight, because it creates a perfect end to the best series I have read in years.
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Summary: Excellent Read!
Review: I really enjoyed this book the second in theBitterbynde Trilogy. The start was interesting but I found it got a little tiresome during the middle of the story. However the last 100 pages or so more than made up for it. I couldn't put the book down and stayed up to finish it until a little after one o'clock in the mourning.
I can't wait to read the next book and I recommend this book to anyone who can't really get into fantasy novels because it will prove to be a easily adjusting stepping stone.
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Summary: Not Such A Great second Book....
Review: I really liked The Ill Made Mute and was looking forward to the Lady of The Sorrows, but was disappointed. I found myself wishing certain scenes were shorter and that storyline would move a little faster. I found that my feelings toward the book and the main characters had quickly turned to melancholy and that things I was waiting to see how they turned out since the first book, did not even matter to me by the time the story got around to them. By the time I finished it, I was not sure I even wanted to read the 3rd book, but it is very hard NOT to read the last book in a trilogy, so I did... read my review of book 3 to hear more...
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Summary: Loved the First Book, but Not so Much on the Second
Review: I really loved the author's first book, but I felt she lost the main plot in the second book. It was still brillently written, but the when the main character found her past, it convuluted the plot. I began to question whether the basic facts about the main character were acurate from the first book. In the first book the character starts out as a small child, but the second book hints that she was much older at that time? I got confused.
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Summary: The second in an excellent series!
Review: I thought the Ill-Made Mute was really boring - I had to keep pushing myself to finish the book it was that bad. The end of Ill-Made Mute was just enough to make me borrow 'Lady of the Sorrows' from a friend. I loved it! It was sooooooo much better than the first in what should be an excellent series and I rushed out to buy a copy for myself! CDT left the readers with Imrhien/Rohain/Ashalind discovering her past - which sets us up for an amazing finale!I am eargerly awaiting the third book!
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Summary: Margaret Australia
Review: I waited with baited breathe for this book, the 3rd in the series. I was very disappointed in the final book. Ms Dart-Thornton went into long winded discriptions, which bored the life out of me. The book just fell flat compared to the last two books.
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