shannonbooks14 's review for:

Flame of Sevenwaters by Juliet Marillier

4.0

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Better than Seer but not quite as good as Heir, in my opinion. Maeve is a great heroine for this one and absolutely DOES feel like a different person from her sisters (after Sibeal and Clodagh felt too similar in narrative voice), which is important because she had a wholly different upbringing and different challenges. I loved her bond with her little brother. This one feels the most “fantastical” of all the books for me, with the big gathering in the Otherworld and Maeve spending so much time with the fae characters. And, of course, falling in love with a dog! I liked the emotion in this one and I thought it brought the series home for me strongly. I wanted more Cathal and Clodagh (best characters in the sequel trilogy) and I wish Fainne had come up more (she’s the reason Maeve is burned after all) but we can’t have everything.