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dani_bugz's review
4.0
Actual rating 4.5
The Dark Divide was so good! While I enjoyed The Undivided, it didn't captivate me as much as this one and it actually took me a good four months to pick up book two. But I am so glad I did! Fast paced, convoluted, intricate and well planned, it was very entertaining.
The Dark Divide was so good! While I enjoyed The Undivided, it didn't captivate me as much as this one and it actually took me a good four months to pick up book two. But I am so glad I did! Fast paced, convoluted, intricate and well planned, it was very entertaining.
atarbett's review
2.0
I can sum up this book in one word: "meh."
It's not bad per se... I just don't care. Which is a pity because I'm a huge fan of Fallon and so I had high hopes for this series. The first book was okay and I got the 2nd book as well, thinking "Maybe it'll get better..."
Well, I'm not impressed with this book and I am debating whether to even continue with the last book in the series.
It's not bad per se... I just don't care. Which is a pity because I'm a huge fan of Fallon and so I had high hopes for this series. The first book was okay and I got the 2nd book as well, thinking "Maybe it'll get better..."
Well, I'm not impressed with this book and I am debating whether to even continue with the last book in the series.
skadeffalo's review
5.0
Amazing. I had to take a break halfway through the book due to the revelation - wow! Had to digest the new info! Such a great book - cant wait for the last one!
morrigan's review
4.0
I enjoyed this much more than the first. The Undivided felt like a really long first chapter introducing all the characters while this had some great story progression and I can't wait for Reunion to find out what happens next.
tsana's review
5.0
Originally posted here: http://tsanasreads.tumblr.com/post/22043938093/the-dark-divide-by-jennifer-fallon
The Dark Divide by Jennifer Fallon is the second book of the Rift Runners (trilogy, I think). The first book was The Undivided.
This is very much the sort of series where you can’t read book two without having read book one before it. The Dark Divide picks up more or less right where The Undivided left off. I don’t think I can say anything too specific about the plot without spoilers for the first book.
The story mainly follows Ren and Darragh, the Undivided twins, Trasa the half-banshee and Pete the cop who is on the case of the shenanigans the other characters committed in the first book.
I liked The Dark Divide more than The Undivided. When I read the first book, I enjoyed it but I was a little disappointed that it wasn’t as full of twisty intrigue as I have come to expect from Fallon’s books (not that disappointed since I still have it 4.5 stars when I read it). The second book more than makes up for it. Where the first book had to introduce a lot of world-building concepts (faeries, rifts between realities, the magic of the twins’ existence), the second book was much more free to dig deeper into everyone’s motivations. There were a lot of ah-ha! moments and a lot of dawning comprehension as pieces of the puzzle came together.
One of the things I particularly liked was the juxtaposition between fantasy-world values and our world values. As in, often times killing someone for the cause in a fantasy book (in general) is seen as necessary. However, move the act (and the fantasy book character) into our world and a host of problems arise.
Another aspect which I thought was well done was the inclusion of a certain real-world recent-historical event. It was something that could easily have felt tacky but worked because the ordinary consequences were given as much (if not slightly more) weight as the plot-related consequences. Also, history wasn’t rewritten to accommodate the plot; from the characters’ point of view, it was a coincidence that affected them but that they had nothing directly to do with.
This is a very good series and I encourage all lovers of fantasy to give it a go. And if that wasn’t enough, The Dark Divide also has ninja leprechauns. Seriously. How can anyone resist reading about ninja freaking leprechauns with shuriken?
5 / 5 stars
The Dark Divide by Jennifer Fallon is the second book of the Rift Runners (trilogy, I think). The first book was The Undivided.
This is very much the sort of series where you can’t read book two without having read book one before it. The Dark Divide picks up more or less right where The Undivided left off. I don’t think I can say anything too specific about the plot without spoilers for the first book.
The story mainly follows Ren and Darragh, the Undivided twins, Trasa the half-banshee and Pete the cop who is on the case of the shenanigans the other characters committed in the first book.
I liked The Dark Divide more than The Undivided. When I read the first book, I enjoyed it but I was a little disappointed that it wasn’t as full of twisty intrigue as I have come to expect from Fallon’s books (not that disappointed since I still have it 4.5 stars when I read it). The second book more than makes up for it. Where the first book had to introduce a lot of world-building concepts (faeries, rifts between realities, the magic of the twins’ existence), the second book was much more free to dig deeper into everyone’s motivations. There were a lot of ah-ha! moments and a lot of dawning comprehension as pieces of the puzzle came together.
One of the things I particularly liked was the juxtaposition between fantasy-world values and our world values. As in, often times killing someone for the cause in a fantasy book (in general) is seen as necessary. However, move the act (and the fantasy book character) into our world and a host of problems arise.
Another aspect which I thought was well done was the inclusion of a certain real-world recent-historical event. It was something that could easily have felt tacky but worked because the ordinary consequences were given as much (if not slightly more) weight as the plot-related consequences. Also, history wasn’t rewritten to accommodate the plot; from the characters’ point of view, it was a coincidence that affected them but that they had nothing directly to do with.
This is a very good series and I encourage all lovers of fantasy to give it a go. And if that wasn’t enough, The Dark Divide also has ninja leprechauns. Seriously. How can anyone resist reading about ninja freaking leprechauns with shuriken?
5 / 5 stars
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