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| Original Title: | The Traitor And the Chalice (Lyremouth Chronicles) |
| ISBN: | 1933110430 (ISBN13: 9781933110431) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.janefletcher.co.uk/Books-Traitor.htm |
| Series: | Lyremouth Chronicles #2 |
| Characters: | Tevi, Jemeryl |
Jane Fletcher
Paperback | Pages: 335 pages Rating: 4.07 | 526 Users | 17 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Traitor and the Chalice (Lyremouth Chronicles #2) |
| Author | : | Jane Fletcher |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 335 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 2006 by Bold Strokes Books |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. GLBT. Lesbian. LGBT. Romance. Lesbian Fiction |
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2 stars... Probably the most boring read of 2018 for me. The first book set up everything well enough that I thought this second book will be nothing but joy to read. Instead, I was mind-numbingly bored all throughout the book. I read in anticipation for it to get good but it never did.More than half of the book is spent in an extremely boring port city where never anything happens. The main characters barely interact with each other because one of them is undercover and when they do meet it's either to share more boring information or to drop the extremely inventive line of all time "I love you." Their dialogue is dry and unimaginative.
Then there's Tevi, a woman that's strong as 5 men put together. There should be a lot of juicy fights, right? WRONG! She barely does anything in this second book. I wanted more fights like the bandit raid in the first book. Some excitement but, nope, nothing. The Checkov's gun was barely unholstered and then put back without nothing interesting ever happening. All Tevi does is get offended when Jemeryl says something wrong which then is resolved 5 seconds later when Jem explains herself. Their relationship just doesn't work, there is no spark, no chemistry there.
The murder mystery was boring. It takes too long to resolve and the main villain is also boring. The chase after the villain was disjointed, repetitive and boring. The mage fights were too esoteric and hard to understand and therefore boring.
The small-time skips are also weird and make the book harder to read. Same as the sudden POV changes without warning. And that word for word copy/pasted conversation from the first book in the middle of this book also seemed way out of place.
And what's up with the anti-climatic ending? I wanted for her to return and show her family who's the boss. Instead, she hides in a corner like she always did. Hero's journey? What hero's journey...
This book is just so... boring. Filled with lots of unfulfilled promise, unfortunately. Some reviewers mention that the first book is the weakest of the series. I disagree, I actually liked the first book far better than this trainwreck.
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Ratings: 4.07 From 526 Users | 17 ReviewsColumn About Books The Traitor and the Chalice (Lyremouth Chronicles #2)
took me this long cause I was reading it at work during lunch..so 30mins ea read takes time. But really enjoy this seriesAwesome, on to the next one :D
It was good book from this series. The adventure and the drama was very captivating, as well as the action. The romance is not what I was expecting, there were kinky moments, but nothing beyond that. Still, it was an interesting book and it was worth reading. Hope to read more from her.
Jane Fletcher is a GCLS award-winning writer and has also been short-listed for the Gaylactic Spectrum and Lambda Literary awards. She is author of two ongoing sets of fantasy/romance novels: the Celaeno seriesThe Walls of Westernfort, Rangers at Roadsend, The Temple at Landfall, Dynasty of Rogues, and Shadow of the Knife; and the Lyremouth ChroniclesThe Exile and The Sorcerer, The Traitor and The
For whatever reason, I do not seem as interested in writing reviews for Fletcher books. Not sure why.So, the story continues here in part two of the series and . . . I come immediately to why I didnt write anything the only real thing I wanted to say was something too spoilery to say so . . . (view spoiler)[This book here works quite well as an end note on the duology, except, you know, this isnt actually the end book on a 2 book series so . . .. (hide spoiler)]Tevi and Jemeryl continue on
To sum it up in 3 words: I was bored. The writing isn't bad, but there are so many unnecessary events to read through and so many plotholes to ignore. And most of all, I didn't care for Tevi and Jem after they initially got together in the first book. They just don't seem well-suited for one another. The combination of contrasts like brawn and brains can work, but in this case it just... doesn't. For most of the book Tevi with her warrior strength is reduced to sitting around and waiting for Jem
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