By the end of the third book, I guess I do believe it (either that or he is most definitely biding his time), and he had some inner monologues that cleared up a little bit of the fog around his motives throughout the series, but still. His motives just felt so fake to me, and I honestly didn't even believe his "transformation" at the end of Song of the Wanderer. My biggest beef with Dark Whispers, besides the switching-POVs, is actually one I already mentioned in my review of the second book - I don't like Cara's father. I guess it's just the best way to tell two different stories, when they're going on in completely different locations. I still got frustrated every now and then when a story was cut off just as it was getting good, but in general it was pretty smooth. I mean, it worked better than it usually does. In this case, though, this method worked pretty well. I usually find it really annoying, actually, because you're constantly braking to a halt just when one story is getting good, then switching to the other storyline that you've kind of forgotten about, and then switching back to the first one and so on and so forth.
I've never been a huge fan of the technique where the author switches POV every other chapter, telling two separate stories about two separate main characters. I'm still trying to decide whether that's a good thing or not.
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This review is also available on my blog, Read Till Dawn.īruce Coville got more and more long-winded as this series went on. Everyone makes mistakes and has a history which drives their passions, even when not everyone remembers what that is. Most of all, in this book, we see that no one is purely good, and no one is purely evil.
Scenes of battle and death are appropriate for the amount of time and emotional investment the readers have put into those characters. Cara is rightly ashamed of being strip-searched, and there is no reference to others taking pleasure in it. Neither of these is done in an inappropriate way. There is some mild gore, and a brief nudity reference. The story was able to take some twists and turns that took me by surprise (a hard thing to do) yet they fit in with the story, and the foreshadowing is obvious once the outcome is understood. She takes on tasks that would make grown men run, and shows her true character at every turn. As the story of Cara continues, her understanding of Luster deepens, and she sees this land is not idyllic as she originally thought. Bruce continues to demonstrate his imagination in this book.
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