- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd (Jun 28 2006)
- ISBN-10: 0732277493
- ISBN-13: 978-0732277499
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Long ago Skala was ruled only by Queens, in accordance with prophecy. King Erius, fearing that the prophecy might be evoked as a means to dethrone him, had most of his female relatives killed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Couldn't put it down,
By Mari Kath (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Oracle's Queen (Mass Market Paperback)
Again, this was a character-driven piece where the lead must grow into a role that is both challenging and confusing. I couldn't put it down.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Less fulfilling than I would have liked,
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This review is from: The Oracle's Queen (Mass Market Paperback)
I love Lynn Flewelling, especially her first trilogy, and I enjoyed the first two novels in this trilogy, but there was something about this book that left me wanting more...but since this seems to be the end of Tamir's story, I fear those loose ends will never be tied up. I was rooting for Tamir and Ki from the second book, hoping they'd finally unite. Their awkward encounters were sometimes a little too repetitive and got old really quickly. Of course the author needed some way to stretch out this aspect of the story, but when there was that final resolution, it all seemed so anticlimactic, especially the ending where there's only a brief epilogue to tie everything up. Was she working under a tight deadline and had to hastily conclude the novel? That was the impression I got. We go from a gripping battle to a curt ending. I wanted something more and know it won't happen since we jump from Tamir's era to Seregil and Alec's. Her story is over and it saddens me that it wasn't more satisfying.
3.0 out of 5 stars
More of the same, which isn't a good thing.,
By Whitemouse (Vancouver, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Oracle's Queen (Mass Market Paperback)
I got this book because I wanted to find out how the trilogy ended, but I already knew by the end of book two that I wasn't much of a fan of Flewelling anymore.I thought The Bone Doll's Twin (the first book in the trilogy) was really good, and I was excited to have discovered a new author that I liked. On the strength of that one book, I picked up Hidden Warrior (the second book in the trilogy) and the first two books of Flewelling's Nightrunner series (Luck In the Shadows and Stalking Darkness). My opinion of those three books ranged from "mostly good" to "kind of disappointing". I bought The Oracle's Queen expecting that it would be more like the second book of the trilogy, rather than the first, and that, unfortunately, was what I found to be true. The book was okay, but not wonderful. The yummy darkness of the first book had disappeared and the story had become pretty pedestrian in content. Flewelling is an odd sort of author, to me. On one hand, I absolutely love her characters and I think she's built an interesting world. On the other, I find her writing to be very bloated. She uses too many adverbs and adjectives, and she spends too much time on backstory, detailing the intricacies of the world she's built, rather than telling the story. I found Hidden Warrior and The Oracle's Queen to both drag on far more than they needed to. Even The Bone Doll's Twin could have been shorter. If you loved both of the first two books of this trilogy, then you'll probably love this one also. If you found the second book slightly disappointing, however, The Oracle's Queen isn't going to win you back to liking the series. Wait until you can borrow it from the library, if you absolutely must satisfy your curiosity.
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