Deceptions : Book Two of The Blending Enthroned

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Summary: shortSighted
Review: I used to be a big Sharon Green fan. Seriously, I think I've read everything she's ever written. Sadly, I'm very disappointed in her latest book, mostly bc of the intimacy issues introduced. There seems to be a serious logical fallacy in her reasoning that they should swap partners on a regular basis. If she maintains this, I hardly see how she can escape making the guys be intimate too, yet she's never broached that issue. Not only that, but it's not as if women are always the same elements and men are always the same elements - so wouldn't that lead to a bunch of imbalanced blendings if some connections were stronger than others? I know the men's connection to each other is supposed to be enhanced by the women, but I just don't buy it - think she's needlessly going outside of her core, which has always been a strong anchor for me. This book leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

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Summary: AAAARRRRRGGGHHHHH
Review: I want the next book now. She has a way of drawing you into the story and making you epathize with her characters. Of course she also has the gift for leaving you hanging with a cliff hanger till the next book comes out.

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Summary: whine, talk, and whine
Review: I've read most of Sharon Green's books, including all of her "Blending" and "Blendings Enthroned" series. I loved the first five books even though it seems like she's dragging the books into a five volume series. In order to make the five book mark for each series, she sometimes wastes her precious and interesting words. This is one of those books. The characters in Deceptions whine all day. Furthermore, our favorite enthroned blending becomes more and more high-handed as the book goes on. What happened to their own sweet selves and character development? Not much happens in this book. It's definatly one of the inferior books of the series. Unless you're a devotee of the Blendings Enthroned series, skip this one. If you're new to Sharon Green's books or wanted to start on the "Blendings" series, don't read this one first, please! I fear that you'll get too bored and never read any of Sharon's wonderful work!

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Summary: whine, talk, and whine
Review: I've read most of Sharon Green's books, including all of her "Blending" and "Blendings Enthroned" series. I loved the first five books even though it seems like she's dragging the books into a five volume series. In order to make the five book mark for each series, she sometimes wastes her precious and interesting words. This is one of those books. The characters in Deceptions whine all day. Furthermore, our favorite enthroned blending becomes more and more high-handed as the book goes on. What happened to their own sweet selves and character development? Not much happens in this book. It's definatly one of the inferior books of the series. Unless you're a devotee of the Blendings Enthroned series, skip this one. If you're new to Sharon Green's books or wanted to start on the "Blendings" series, don't read this one first, please! I fear that you'll get too bored and never read any of Sharon's wonderful work!

Rating:
Summary: whine, talk, and whine
Review: I've read most of Sharon Green's books, including all of her "Blending" and "Blendings Enthroned" series. I loved the first five books even though it seems like she's dragging the books into a five volume series. In order to make the five book mark for each series, she sometimes wastes her precious and interesting words. This is one of those books. The characters in Deceptions whine all day. Furthermore, our favorite enthroned blending becomes more and more high-handed as the book goes on. What happened to their own sweet selves and character development? Not much happens in this book. It's definatly one of the inferior books of the series. Unless you're a devotee of the Blendings Enthroned series, skip this one. If you're new to Sharon Green's books or wanted to start on the "Blendings" series, don't read this one first, please! I fear that you'll get too bored and never read any of Sharon's wonderful work!

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Summary: Where was the editor?!
Review: If ever a book was in need of an editor, this one was it. I enjoyed the first five books, "The Blending" although they progressively were more stilted and difficult to follow. There is a great story and series in here fighting to get out! Even simple things like chapter headings that listed the location of the scene and a map of the "world" would have helped. I start to wonder if the pressure on the authors of these types of series to get the next one out fast is overwhelming and doesn't give them time to re-read their own work before they send it off. I was fantasizing about grabbing a pen and editing it myself and then sending it back to the publisher! What a disappointment.

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Summary: Shallow Characters and a Corny Plot
Review: Ok, so a lot of the people rating this book had problems. This is like one of the best books there is, and anyone that disagrees can't be very bright. Anyways . . . This book is the second book of the Blending Enthroned, the second series about Tamrissa (Fire Magic) Jovvi (Spirt Magic) Vallant (Water Magic) Lorand (Earth Magic) Rion (Air Magic) and Naran (Sight Magic). They're the ruling Sixfold Blending, and have traveled to a neighbering empire (Gracely). At the end of the last book, they had just been told, along with the rulers of Gracely, that the land had been invaded with people that are unafected by talent. This poses a problem . . . So along with people of their own kingdom trying to take over, people in Gracely trying to kill them, they have a new, unknown horror to deal with. Because if this strange race conquers Gracely, the neck empire they'll be after will be Gandistra . . . The Sixfolds own home, which they'll defend at any cost.

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Summary: This is SOOO 5 Stars
Review: Ok, so a lot of the people rating this book had problems. This is like one of the best books there is, and anyone that disagrees can't be very bright. Anyways . . . This book is the second book of the Blending Enthroned, the second series about Tamrissa (Fire Magic) Jovvi (Spirt Magic) Vallant (Water Magic) Lorand (Earth Magic) Rion (Air Magic) and Naran (Sight Magic). They're the ruling Sixfold Blending, and have traveled to a neighbering empire (Gracely). At the end of the last book, they had just been told, along with the rulers of Gracely, that the land had been invaded with people that are unafected by talent. This poses a problem . . . So along with people of their own kingdom trying to take over, people in Gracely trying to kill them, they have a new, unknown horror to deal with. Because if this strange race conquers Gracely, the neck empire they'll be after will be Gandistra . . . The Sixfolds own home, which they'll defend at any cost.

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Summary: finish it anyway
Review: Sharon Green has a very bizarre writing style. She tells an interesting story and you like her main characters, but for some reason she insists on "telling" everything that happens in the form of dialogue, rather than description. This can make the dialogue very stilted and contrived. Her editors (if there were any) certainly didn't do too good of a job - she uses the word fool in seemingly every other sentence. Her "bad guys" are all cartoons. And yet you feel compelled to read her books and finish them, mostly to find out what happens. I just wish she would work on the dialogue.

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Summary: Not so great
Review: The first book was very imaginative and creative. The following four books were terrible. The author repeated the same plots over and over again and the characters became less and less appealing. The books became extremely preachy and less enjoyable