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jj7twin 's review for:
The Black Jewels Trilogy
by Anne Bishop
Lots of triggering subjects and events in this world. Child abuse, sexual violence towards anyone, no matter the age (thankfully child violence is only strongly alluded to aside from one brief scene in DoTB), and torture are all throughout this world but not so much in later books because of the events in QoTD. If you can not stomach reading anything like that do not pick up this book or have a friend redact an used copy for you. I love this saga and I still get emotional and rage filled when re-reading those parts.
This was the version I read when I first discovered The Black Jewels novels. Thankfully I was late to the party because the library waitlist for the next 2* books was short and I was always in the top ten to read the upcoming book after I caught up to present day. Anyone who took a chance on the first solo book when it first came out is a champ cuz boy! the agony to wait for the rest would have hurt me too much.
I've read this series almost every year since 2007*. Not sure when I first read this bundle but I grabbed all the other Anne Bishop books in this series and her Empherma* series before I even finished reading the first book.
DoTB starts out as a loving and suspenseful introduction into the key players. We get comfortable and hope that soon Witch will be safe and happy. Then it goes wrong very fast and guts you with the pain our characters are feeling. In the final scenes of the first book you are given hope that time will make things better and it's that hope that pulls you into HttS.
In HttS they woke the beast and now the debts must be paid. The climax has you holding your breath on the rise and crying thanks to all the emotions you can't escape. After the fall you're still emotional and just hoping for HEA all around and did I mention emotional?
QoTD is somewhat of a coming of age story for Witch. She has healed and grown into a young adult with her adopted family and friends by her side. In the end she does what she must to save her love and her extended friends from the taint spreading through the Realms.
This was the version I read when I first discovered The Black Jewels novels. Thankfully I was late to the party because the library waitlist for the next 2* books was short and I was always in the top ten to read the upcoming book after I caught up to present day. Anyone who took a chance on the first solo book when it first came out is a champ cuz boy! the agony to wait for the rest would have hurt me too much.
I've read this series almost every year since 2007*. Not sure when I first read this bundle but I grabbed all the other Anne Bishop books in this series and her Empherma* series before I even finished reading the first book.
DoTB starts out as a loving and suspenseful introduction into the key players. We get comfortable and hope that soon Witch will be safe and happy. Then it goes wrong very fast and guts you with the pain our characters are feeling. In the final scenes of the first book you are given hope that time will make things better and it's that hope that pulls you into HttS.
In HttS they woke the beast and now the debts must be paid. The climax has you holding your breath on the rise and crying thanks to all the emotions you can't escape. After the fall you're still emotional and just hoping for HEA all around and did I mention emotional?
QoTD is somewhat of a coming of age story for Witch. She has healed and grown into a young adult with her adopted family and friends by her side. In the end she does what she must to save her love and her extended friends from the taint spreading through the Realms.