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A review by wilmaknickersfit
The Merchant of Dreams by Anne Lyle
3.0
I'm not going to repeat the Goodreads summary of this book.
Talk about betrayal.
I was looking forward to this second book of the trilogy, but now I'm not sure I like how some of the characters are developing. Mal makes some very dodgy decisions in this book and agrees to others that don't quite fit with what we know about his character. In particular, one betrayal and one decision are quite spectacular and his reasoning for both of these things didn't really work for me at all.
At least the betrayal is going to come back and bite him on the bum and that rather pleased me.
I don't understand either how Coby accepts Mal's behaviour and actions in this book. I know love is supposed to be blind, but she's an intelligent woman and a practising Christian, so how she reconciles accepting Mal's actions is a bit of a mystery to me and definitely a weakness in the plot.
No doubt some of the things that happened in this book were aimed at continuing the story, but the line between the good guys and bad guys is getting very blurred. A showdown between Mal and Sandy seems inevitable.
I've yet to read the third chapter in this series, but I hope this book just set the stage for the final book of the trilogy and the standard of The Prince of Lies returns to that of the first book.
Happy endings seem unlikely at this point.
Talk about betrayal.
I was looking forward to this second book of the trilogy, but now I'm not sure I like how some of the characters are developing. Mal makes some very dodgy decisions in this book and agrees to others that don't quite fit with what we know about his character. In particular, one betrayal and one decision are quite spectacular and his reasoning for both of these things didn't really work for me at all.
At least the betrayal is going to come back and bite him on the bum and that rather pleased me.
I don't understand either how Coby accepts Mal's behaviour and actions in this book. I know love is supposed to be blind, but she's an intelligent woman and a practising Christian, so how she reconciles accepting Mal's actions is a bit of a mystery to me and definitely a weakness in the plot.
No doubt some of the things that happened in this book were aimed at continuing the story, but the line between the good guys and bad guys is getting very blurred. A showdown between Mal and Sandy seems inevitable.
I've yet to read the third chapter in this series, but I hope this book just set the stage for the final book of the trilogy and the standard of The Prince of Lies returns to that of the first book.
Happy endings seem unlikely at this point.