![]() The second book opens up the world a bit and we see some of the other immortals roaming the land (the magical tide is coming in and they’re waiting to make their moves). But there’s a suspenseful build-up and the first book is tightly focused on the pair of them. A suicidal immortal, also a great way to start a series. Enter the suicidal Immortal Prince, Cayal. This part was handled surprisingly tactfully, I thought, especially the relationship between them and the mutual respect they had for each other. The duke is gay, you see, and being married to her quells any suspicions about his orientation, while his influence allows her to pursue a career as a historian at the university. She was born in the slums, but ended up marrying a duke for their mutual benefit. On top of having a cool name, Arkady, our protagonist, was a smart, if guarded, young woman. And actually, the first two books of the Tide Lords Quartet were pretty good. Or the fact that it was called The Immortal Princeīut I did not know then the madness that would follow. Did I mention Azhure and Axis are distantly related? Remember that it’ll come up again later… But whatever, Axis meets his magical winged family, he knocks up Azhure (a couple times, actually), he discovers Azhure’s father was also a magical winged man, battles ensue, he kills jerk brother, lies to Faraday about his magical babies, she finds out and runs off to do tree magic then gets killed by monster brother, and finally Axis kills monster brother. The jerk half-brother is far more sympathetic than his Golden God of a brother. So is Axis (into a god, that is) but he is terrible. Also, she is literally turned into a goddess at the end. And it’s quite clear the author liked her better than anyone else in the books too, because she eventually eclipses the main character and is given far more backstory and development. Anyway, before Axis goes off to fight ice creatures, he promises to come back and defeat his brother and marry Faraday. He also has a normal half-brother who is a major jerk and becomes the ruler and marries Faraday, the girl Axis leered at during a banquet fell in love with. So Axis has to defeat his monster brother because of prophecy reasons. Basically, this dude Axis is the bastard of his noble mother and a magical winged guy named Stardrifter who also knocked up some other lady with a monster who now wants to take over the kingdom with ice wraiths. My little teenaged self read the Axis Trilogy (I got the third book somewhere else) and was underwhelmed, but nevertheless thought that there were some interesting ideas so I gave it a pass (I’m willing to overlook a lot when it comes to fantasy if you give me some cool concepts or visuals).Īt this point, I should run down the plot of that first trilogy since it’s connected to the insanity that followed. Little did I know how fateful that decision would prove. Pictured: the three that are NOT batshit insane I quite enjoy Jennifer Fallon’s Demon Child Trilogy, and if her follow-up Wolfblade Trilogy lacked the same spark, then it was at least good enough for me to think “Oh hey, she’s got another series. No, no, I had in fact read some of each the author’s previous works and so was lured in by their seemingly not insane fantasy adventures, complete with reasonable endings. For I did not stumble on these gems completely by random. When That Happened the Good Books I’d Read Were Destroyed.Īs I recall the goings-on of these particular books, I feel the strong need to explain why I’ve read them. ![]() So y’know… major spoilers ahead and whatnot. Specifically, The Tide Lords Quartet by Jennifer Fallon and The Wayfarer Redemption by Sara Douglass. Guess which ones we’ll be discussing today? That’s right, I’m going to talk about a couple series that went so completely off the rails that the only way for the author to end them was to destroy the whole goddamn world they’d created. Some good, some not so good, and some so baffling bizarre that they defy all logic. Reader Discretion is Advised Things Are About to Get WeirdĪs a bespectacled young woman with tendencies towards introversion, I’ve read my fair share of fantasy novels.
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