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eecee's review against another edition
5.0
excellent! read straight through for about 17 hours to finish both this one and the next!
thiefofcamorr's review against another edition
5.0
I don't remember how quickly I read this, but it was in a few short days. I couldn't put it down.
g8girl's review against another edition
5.0
Eye of the Labyrinth by Jennifer Fallon
*****5*****
Read with my friends at Buddies, Books and Bauble
The second book in the series picks up two years after we last see Dirk. Antonov is still obsessed with him, as is the High Priestess Belagren. Dirk has been hiding in the Baenlands with his new found friends and family, trying to escape the clutches of the Lion of Senet, but Antonov won't be beaten, and he thinks he's found a way to bring Dirk out in the open once and for all.
The second book has at least as much suspense and character growth as the first book, and I went through my third read of it in a matter of days. I simply couldn't put it down. All of the characters are still recognizable, yet some of them have grown up quite a bit and become more mature people (Alenor) and a few of them haven't managed to grow up at all (Tia). Others have only grown more devious and hateful (Marqel) and Dirk has become something more than he had ever imagined for himself. Plots are being schemed and put into motion and soon all of Ranadon could be thrown into chaos.
*****5*****
Read with my friends at Buddies, Books and Bauble
The second book in the series picks up two years after we last see Dirk. Antonov is still obsessed with him, as is the High Priestess Belagren. Dirk has been hiding in the Baenlands with his new found friends and family, trying to escape the clutches of the Lion of Senet, but Antonov won't be beaten, and he thinks he's found a way to bring Dirk out in the open once and for all.
The second book has at least as much suspense and character growth as the first book, and I went through my third read of it in a matter of days. I simply couldn't put it down. All of the characters are still recognizable, yet some of them have grown up quite a bit and become more mature people (Alenor) and a few of them haven't managed to grow up at all (Tia). Others have only grown more devious and hateful (Marqel) and Dirk has become something more than he had ever imagined for himself. Plots are being schemed and put into motion and soon all of Ranadon could be thrown into chaos.
ceels's review against another edition
5.0
I love the characters so much, I think about them when I'm not with them and wonder what they are doing. I am busting to get my hands on the third book to find out what happens to them.
sarah42783's review against another edition
5.0
Actual rating: 4.7 stars. And a quarter.
The acronym is strong is this one. Don't say I didn't warn you.
To think I almost nearly virtually DNF the first book in this trilogy. To think that, had I behaved in such a despicably vindictive manner, I would have missed out on a Most Deliciously Devious Machiavellian Plan (MDDMP™ ). Then again, how could I have guessed that Disgustingly Youthful and Seemingly Innocuous, Naive Dirk Provin (DYaSINDP™) would turn out to be one my good pal Niccolo M.'s worthiest spiritual successors? I mean, the guy is so wickedly duplicitous he even had me fooled into thinking he was naught but yet another revolting YA anti-hero wannabe! By the shrimpy goddess, this boy is more deceitfully sly than Fleet Admiral DaShrimp on acid (don't ask)! Does Little Dirk have the whole End Justifies the Means Business Thingie (EJtMBT™). Even I, in all my wondrous nefariousness, wouldalmost never take things so far as to spoiler spoiler spoiler my spoiler spoiler spoiler in such a spoiler spoiler spoiler way, and then be so bold as to spoiler spoiler spoiler, too! It's quite beautiful, really. And it makes me want to dance, obviously.
Now, I'm not yet privy to Young Dirk's ultimate goal here, but I do hope his marvelously wicked plan includes the not-so-swift disposal of90% a few characters in this trilogy. I have to say that Second Sons is most exquisitely fraught with quite the lavish array of of loathsome bastards and vicious bitches. Some of them deserve a slow, painful, preferably excruciating death. Others, aka The Lucky Shrimping Few (TLSF™), deserve a slow, painful, preferably excruciating death, preceded by several delicious hours of First Class Pincer-Induced Torment (FCPIT™) courtesy of my murderous children. And the evil, neurotic, delusional, homicidal, conniving little bitch extraordinaire known as Marquel one super extra special character who has a super extra special place in my black, withered heart deserves a slow, painful, preferably excruciating death, preceded by several delicious hours of First Class Pincer-Induced Torment (FCPIT™) courtesy of my murderous children, her lovely limbs to be later chopped into tiny little pieces and her charming little head savagely delicately severed. Only to be slightly stomped on by a herd of stampeding barnacles. I'd originally planned of feeding her remains to the crustaceans in a effort to drive the point home, but I then realized my babies would probably suffer from severe indigestion as a result, so I decided to leave it at that. Outrageously lenient of me, I know. But what can I say, I'm compassionate and magnanimous like that.
See? Even the super hot guy with the sexy mustache and chiseled eyebrows agree!
As surprising as it may seem, some characters in this book do not actually deserve to die. I kid you not. Take Little Not So Bloody Shrimping Innocent Anymore Alinor (LNSBSIAA™), for example. I would have gladly unleashed the crustaceans on her, hadn't she graduated from the Pathetically Love Sick Teeny Princess (PLSTP™) she was in Lion of Senet to the Slyly Deceptive Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler (SDSSS™ ) she became in this book. But she did, so I didn't. The glorious thing about this trilogy is, mostbabe in the woods baby shrimp in the ocean-type characters that were repulsively young and indigenous and candid and trusting and credulous in the first instalment turn into a fabulously deceitful, distrustful, duplicitous lot before in Eye of the Labyrinth. Now that's what I call Gloriously Yummy Character Development (GYCD™)! And what of the ancient, wicked, ruthless, vile characters, you ask? Oh, don't you worry your little selves needlessly, this Heinously Despicable Bunch (HDB™) is still alive and kicking! Well, some of them are more, um, you know, alive than others, but on the whole they are as toxically malicious as ever. Which calls for yet another happy dance.
Yes, it is true, this is Fantasy without magic or witchcraft or monsters, oh my! So bloody fishing what? It's packed with devilish machinations and diabolical plots and triple-crossing schemes and stuff, what more could you possibly ask for, my Little Barnacles? Villainous villains? You got them. Infuriating characters you hate to love and love to hate (and vice versa)? In attendance as well. Twists and surprises and No No No Please Don't Do It Please Don't Do It Please Don't Do It Moments (NNNPDDIPDDIPDDIM™ )? Plenty of those to be had. Entertainingly engaging stuff, never a dull moment and all that crap? From the very first page to the very last one. A most stupendous narration by Joe Jameson? Yep, that too. Anything else you can think of? Didn't think so. Ha.
➽ And the moral of this Oh Wow It Seems That Not All Books Featuring Repulsively Young Characters Are Suicide Inducing and Some of Them Are Actually Quite Scrumpalicious Crappy Non Review (OWISTNABFRYCASIaSoTAQSICNR™) is: please Jennifer Fallon, don't kill Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler (not his real name) and Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler (not her real name) and Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler (not his real name) and Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler (not her real name) and Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler (not his real name) and Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler (not her real name) in the final instalment, okay? I don't have a heart so I really couldn't care less about them but I know some ridiculously vulnerable puny humans who do and I would hate to see them break down and cry because one of their favourite characters unexpectedly perished in a blaze of utter agony so please try to put a leash on the homicidal maniac in you when one of the above mentioned characters is around but hey, pretty much everyone else can die horribly, so go ahead, knock yourself out and kill the rest of them all super dead and stuff and now this sentence is over so you can resume breathing. I think.
· Book 1: Lion of Senet ★★★★★
· Book 3: Lord of the Shadows ★★★★★
[Pre-review nonsense]
Watch out, Machiavelli, Dirk Provin is bloody shrimping coming for you!
➽ Full Jennifer Fallon You Better Not Kill Marquel in the Next Instalment I Have Plans for Her that Include Excruciating Pain Endless Torture Hacking Her to Tiny Little Pieces and Feeding Her to the Crustaceans Crappy Non Review (JFYBNKMitNIIHPfHtIEPETHHtTLPaFHttCCNR™) to come.
The acronym is strong is this one. Don't say I didn't warn you.
To think I almost nearly virtually DNF the first book in this trilogy. To think that, had I behaved in such a despicably vindictive manner, I would have missed out on a Most Deliciously Devious Machiavellian Plan (MDDMP™ ). Then again, how could I have guessed that Disgustingly Youthful and Seemingly Innocuous, Naive Dirk Provin (DYaSINDP™) would turn out to be one my good pal Niccolo M.'s worthiest spiritual successors? I mean, the guy is so wickedly duplicitous he even had me fooled into thinking he was naught but yet another revolting YA anti-hero wannabe! By the shrimpy goddess, this boy is more deceitfully sly than Fleet Admiral DaShrimp on acid (don't ask)! Does Little Dirk have the whole End Justifies the Means Business Thingie (EJtMBT™). Even I, in all my wondrous nefariousness, would
Now, I'm not yet privy to Young Dirk's ultimate goal here, but I do hope his marvelously wicked plan includes the not-so-swift disposal of
See? Even the super hot guy with the sexy mustache and chiseled eyebrows agree!
As surprising as it may seem, some characters in this book do not actually deserve to die. I kid you not. Take Little Not So Bloody Shrimping Innocent Anymore Alinor (LNSBSIAA™), for example. I would have gladly unleashed the crustaceans on her, hadn't she graduated from the Pathetically Love Sick Teeny Princess (PLSTP™) she was in Lion of Senet to the Slyly Deceptive Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler (SDSSS™ ) she became in this book. But she did, so I didn't. The glorious thing about this trilogy is, most
Yes, it is true, this is Fantasy without magic or witchcraft or monsters, oh my! So bloody fishing what? It's packed with devilish machinations and diabolical plots and triple-crossing schemes and stuff, what more could you possibly ask for, my Little Barnacles? Villainous villains? You got them. Infuriating characters you hate to love and love to hate (and vice versa)? In attendance as well. Twists and surprises and No No No Please Don't Do It Please Don't Do It Please Don't Do It Moments (NNNPDDIPDDIPDDIM™ )? Plenty of those to be had. Entertainingly engaging stuff, never a dull moment and all that crap? From the very first page to the very last one. A most stupendous narration by Joe Jameson? Yep, that too. Anything else you can think of? Didn't think so. Ha.
➽ And the moral of this Oh Wow It Seems That Not All Books Featuring Repulsively Young Characters Are Suicide Inducing and Some of Them Are Actually Quite Scrumpalicious Crappy Non Review (OWISTNABFRYCASIaSoTAQSICNR™) is: please Jennifer Fallon, don't kill Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler (not his real name) and Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler (not her real name) and Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler (not his real name) and Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler (not her real name) and Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler (not his real name) and Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler (not her real name) in the final instalment, okay? I don't have a heart so I really couldn't care less about them but I know some ridiculously vulnerable puny humans who do and I would hate to see them break down and cry because one of their favourite characters unexpectedly perished in a blaze of utter agony so please try to put a leash on the homicidal maniac in you when one of the above mentioned characters is around but hey, pretty much everyone else can die horribly, so go ahead, knock yourself out and kill the rest of them all super dead and stuff and now this sentence is over so you can resume breathing. I think.
· Book 1: Lion of Senet ★★★★★
· Book 3: Lord of the Shadows ★★★★★
[Pre-review nonsense]
Watch out, Machiavelli, Dirk Provin is bloody shrimping coming for you!
➽ Full Jennifer Fallon You Better Not Kill Marquel in the Next Instalment I Have Plans for Her that Include Excruciating Pain Endless Torture Hacking Her to Tiny Little Pieces and Feeding Her to the Crustaceans Crappy Non Review (JFYBNKMitNIIHPfHtIEPETHHtTLPaFHttCCNR™) to come.
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