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Strażniczka bramy
by Michelle Zink
Review also appeared on my blog Pages Full of Stars.
My rating: 3/6
I’m sad to say this but I enjoyed Guardian of the Gate much less than Prophecy of the Sisters. It was still a good read but didn’t really engage me that much.
Firstly, the dynamics here are quite different because of the settings change, but I also thought that the whole atmosphere was different. It wasn’t so mysterious anymore and I didn’t feel that thrill you feel when you don’t know what will happen next. I was pretty surprised that the book picked up several months after the first one finished. It was often stressed that Lia has very little time to solve things out, so you would think that as soon as she arrives in England she’ll start working on it but it seems that not much really happened. I didn’t feel that much suspense and some of the plot twists were quite predictable.
I did like the idea of Altus, which reminded me of Avalon from Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Mists of Avalon and it was interesting to see more world building in this book. We find out a lot more about the Prophecy and the whole thing now looks a lot bigger than in Prophecy of the Sisters. Writing was also as good as in the first book and it was a quick read.
But what disappointed me the most was Lia’s new love interest. What I appreciated in the previous book was her relationship with James, how it was developed beforehand and didn’t overshadow the main story but here it seemed that all of it evaporated. Instead of that we got and unfortunate insta-love which took up quite a bit of the book, while Lia seemed to almost completely forget about James. In Prophecy of the Sisters I got the impression that she asked him to wait for her and wanted to be with him once everything settles down, so imagine my surprise when she jumped into this new relationship so rapidly.
Apart from that, one thing that I would change and that in my opinion could add to the book would be more of Alice. Obviously, everything happened far from her but I was constantly wondering what she’s doing and I think that alternate points of view would have been a really good choice here.
All in all, even though Guardian of the Gate didn’t engage my as much as the first installment I will definitely still pick up the third and final book in the series, because I’m curious about how everything will turn out.
My rating: 3/6
I’m sad to say this but I enjoyed Guardian of the Gate much less than Prophecy of the Sisters. It was still a good read but didn’t really engage me that much.
Firstly, the dynamics here are quite different because of the settings change, but I also thought that the whole atmosphere was different. It wasn’t so mysterious anymore and I didn’t feel that thrill you feel when you don’t know what will happen next. I was pretty surprised that the book picked up several months after the first one finished. It was often stressed that Lia has very little time to solve things out, so you would think that as soon as she arrives in England she’ll start working on it but it seems that not much really happened. I didn’t feel that much suspense and some of the plot twists were quite predictable.
I did like the idea of Altus, which reminded me of Avalon from Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Mists of Avalon and it was interesting to see more world building in this book. We find out a lot more about the Prophecy and the whole thing now looks a lot bigger than in Prophecy of the Sisters. Writing was also as good as in the first book and it was a quick read.
But what disappointed me the most was Lia’s new love interest. What I appreciated in the previous book was her relationship with James, how it was developed beforehand and didn’t overshadow the main story but here it seemed that all of it evaporated. Instead of that we got and unfortunate insta-love which took up quite a bit of the book, while Lia seemed to almost completely forget about James. In Prophecy of the Sisters I got the impression that she asked him to wait for her and wanted to be with him once everything settles down, so imagine my surprise when she jumped into this new relationship so rapidly.
Apart from that, one thing that I would change and that in my opinion could add to the book would be more of Alice. Obviously, everything happened far from her but I was constantly wondering what she’s doing and I think that alternate points of view would have been a really good choice here.
All in all, even though Guardian of the Gate didn’t engage my as much as the first installment I will definitely still pick up the third and final book in the series, because I’m curious about how everything will turn out.