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readingpriestess's review against another edition
5.0
Again, the same with its predecessor books, this is great :) Though I feel a little cheated since the author did not put more intimate scenes on it. It could have been more soul inspiring... Only the book 1 contains those kind of relationship... I hope the next book would bear this kind of tension.
teenykins's review
3.0
Hmm compared to the first 2 books this was lackluster... Even the dialogue felt trite at times.
Once more the timeline is vague. 2 years after the first book and some time after the 2nd. The end was open ended like the first one, where we have no clue what happened to Kundou and the royal family. The same here the story ended but no actions happened toward the royal family and the brother that pretty much has send people to kill Culebra.
I'm not fond of sibling incest and MMM rarely works for me but still when we had Dario's POV there was backtracking with him saying that he and Granito, or at least he, never felt sibling love towards one another and the chemistry was missing between Culebra and Midori, which went from 0 to 100 in 1 second flat, between Culebra and Dario and Dario and Midori. I have to say that trying to work the mechanics of how those 3 would work in whatever POV we were at the time, while being in a time crunched, deadly mission but a dumper on things for me.
The parts that worked best for me where the Cortez-Culebra ones. And I gotta say I cheered more for Fidel and Cortez than I did the trio.
I gotta note as well that based on the first impressions I got from Culebra about Dario and Granito, I thought that they looked identical, even though they have a 2 year difference, but almost at the start of the last 3rd of the book from Dario's POV he says "He was nearly as short as Fidel and compact. Nothing like Granito, who had been tall and broad and nearly unstoppable." So yeah, that got me by surprise and also let me say that we have no idea how short Fidel is.
Anyway onto the next I go because I want to see what will happen between Ivan and Ailill.
Once more the timeline is vague. 2 years after the first book and some time after the 2nd. The end was open ended like the first one, where we have no clue what happened to Kundou and the royal family. The same here the story ended but no actions happened toward the royal family and the brother that pretty much has send people to kill Culebra.
I'm not fond of sibling incest and MMM rarely works for me but still when we had Dario's POV there was backtracking with him saying that he and Granito, or at least he, never felt sibling love towards one another and the chemistry was missing between Culebra and Midori, which went from 0 to 100 in 1 second flat, between Culebra and Dario and Dario and Midori. I have to say that trying to work the mechanics of how those 3 would work in whatever POV we were at the time, while being in a time crunched, deadly mission but a dumper on things for me.
The parts that worked best for me where the Cortez-Culebra ones. And I gotta say I cheered more for Fidel and Cortez than I did the trio.
I gotta note as well that based on the first impressions I got from Culebra about Dario and Granito, I thought that they looked identical, even though they have a 2 year difference, but almost at the start of the last 3rd of the book from Dario's POV he says "He was nearly as short as Fidel and compact. Nothing like Granito, who had been tall and broad and nearly unstoppable." So yeah, that got me by surprise and also let me say that we have no idea how short Fidel is.
Anyway onto the next I go because I want to see what will happen between Ivan and Ailill.
terriaminute's review
mysterious
medium-paced
5.0
As with all of these there are the kinds of typos spell-check won't catch and some line-edit fails. Luckily the story's just as good as #1 & #2, and I already bought the last two in the series. There's a flaw in the plot, but not an important one. I really appreciated the relationship caveat at the end, so I'll call it even. :)
mrella's review against another edition
4.0
What is with MD's books and editing? Silly little things, really, but the sheer amount of them takes away from the story, no matter how good.
I think every single person in this book save the king and the snake had gotten hit in the head at one point or another. Even poor Culebra, blind as he was, experienced the world going dark (or black, don't remember 100% now). True story, says so in the book!
Other than that, pretty good stuff. 3.75 stars :)
I think every single person in this book save the king and the snake had gotten hit in the head at one point or another. Even poor Culebra, blind as he was, experienced the world going dark (or black, don't remember 100% now). True story, says so in the book!
Other than that, pretty good stuff. 3.75 stars :)
poultrymunitions's review
2.0
15 people get hit in the head and conveniently lose consciousness in every Megan Derr novel I have read. She's got a great imagination, but lord has she seen too many American action movies...
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