I really enjoyed this book. The mystery is nicely complex and twisty-turny, the characters are likeable and believable, and the story is fresh and satisfying. Also, it's great value for your money, because it's a good long book and yet the pace never slowed. If I have a criticism, it's only that I had trouble keeping track of characters, since there are many, and several of them have knick-names in addition to their real names.
I'm very much looking forward to reading more from this author. This novel is a solid debut.
It's a bit of a shame you have to read this book first for the second book in the series, Stalking Darkness, to make sense, because while this book has flaws, the second book has fewer of them and is very enjoyable.
This book has quite a bit of charm also, however. I really love the character of Seregil when he's feeling lively, and Alec is sweet and very interesting too. These are fun characters, and it's pretty clear the author feels a great deal of affection for them also. The problem in Luck in the Shadows is that the plot is disjointed and confusing. I also found it hard to keep characters straight, as the minor ones would often be introduced by little more than name,… Read more
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… Read more
