Sonea - Die Heilerin (Die Saga von Sonea, #2)

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Sonea - Die Heilerin (Traitor Spy Trilogy #2)

by Trudi Canavan, Michaela Link (Übersetzer)

4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 · rating details · 3,525 ratings · 145 reviews

Lorkin, der Sohn der schwarzen Magierin Sonea, wurde in Sachaka entführt. Seine Häscher hoffen, von ihm die Kunst der Heilung durch Magie zu erlernen, die in Sachaka unbekannt ist. Lorkin weiß jedoch, dass diese Fähigkeit im Falle eines Krieges einen enormen Vorteil birgt. Er ist fest entschlossen, das Geheimnis zu wahren. Aber dann lernt er Tyvara kennen – und verliebt si...more

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Published May 23rd 2011 by Penhaligon (first published January 1st 2011)

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Jul 27, 2011 Derek added it · review of another edition

Ugh. Where to begin? It was about three years ago that I read the Black Magician's trilogy. It was quite good. When the Magician's Apprentice came out I read it with glee. It was pretty good. And then Canavan began "The Traitor Spy Trilogy". What was she thinking?

The first book in the series, "The Ambassador's Mission" Takes place 20 years after those in the Black Magician Trilogy. It was an okay story, but most of it was spent attempting to recover lost history, history the reader is aware of...more

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Jan 20, 2013 Ferdy rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: blah, blah-romance, boring, boring-crap-hero, disappointing, fantasy, magic-magicians, meh

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This was a chore to read, it was boring and slow paced. The characters and arcs didn't hold my interest.
I didn't care about Lorkin or the Traitors, there was nothing remotely entertaining about either of them. Also, Lorkin's relationship with Tyvara was dull.
The addition of Lillia was annoying. She would have been a half decent protagonist but her stupidity and naivety ruined her character. I lost count of the number of times she was manipulated, if she'd been used once or twice that wo...more

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Oct 14, 2012 Ella rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I think I'm being generous here, another lackluster installment of the traitor spy trilogy only my love of the BMT is keeping me reading in the vain hope that they might improve.
Alas never has a piece of work been such a lead-up to it's next installment since I saw pirates of the Caribbean 2.
There is hardly any action in the book, a look at the Duna tribe was about the hi-light of the entire thing for me. Stick to your strengths Canavan, you're excellent at world-building not so much at creati...more I think I'm being generous here, another lackluster installment of the traitor spy trilogy only my love of the BMT is keeping me reading in the vain hope that they might improve.
Alas never has a piece of work been such a lead-up to it's next installment since I saw pirates of the Caribbean 2.
There is hardly any action in the book, a look at the Duna tribe was about the hi-light of the entire thing for me. Stick to your strengths Canavan, you're excellent at world-building not so much at creating likable multi-dimensional characters.

Lorkin is still a wet blanket and hasn't gotten any brighter as far as I can tell, in fact someone should do a study between the correlation of magical powers and dropping IQ in this world. Anyhoo the traitors have turned out to be exactly the kind of obnoxious, hypocritical straw-feminists I feared...ohh...so close and yet so far away...and back at the guild the whole Naki/Lilia plot is unfortunately such a large chunk of the book I can't skim over it. A lot of people I have seen on here discussed depiction of homosexuality in the book and I honestly think Canavan should just leave it out. Now don't get me wrong I'm not homophobic and loved the Dannyl/Tayend relationship, you know after I grudgingly accepted that Dannyl would never be mine....she seems to have struck gold with her portrayal of their relationship, it was heartwarming, affectionate and the most believable in the whole series, all in all kudos, also even though they were gay it wasn't their ONLY personality trait which often happens in fantasy literature portraying homosexual characters. But after seeing her handle a few more same-sex relationships I realize that the Dannyl/Tayend one was a fluke and she accidentally wrote a believable relationship. In her books the gay characters seem to pair off with each other ONLY because they are gay and no other reason, if there are two gay characters in the same vicinity they will try to screw each other..eh...pretty sure that's not how people work Canavan....
I'm blonde and I'm studying to be a geneticist, but I'm not going to jump into bed with the first blonde-haired geneticist I meet, and in fact we'd probably have more in common that most of her paired-off characters....not that her heterosexual pairings are much better Lorkin loves Tyvara at first sight well...because...uhhh....*drools* (that's how I imagine his reasoning anyway) and she seems to reciprocate, just because.

And I know this goes beyond this particular book but the magicians, good lord the magicians! Are starting to piss me off. This entire world has a very black and white mentality. Magicians come in two flavours slow-witted and well-meaning “good” magicians who pat themselves on the back for being pillars of the community and are afraid of anything new and different and “bad” magicians who are cartoonishly-evil bond-esque villains who commit evil for fun and profit and try to set themselves up as tyrants or invade countries. As a consequence my favourite character in this book was Naki, yes, she may have been a supremely selfish, manipulative bitch who seduced a naive idiot so that she could frame her all so that she could do what she wanted without being restrained by the guild. She didn't want to take over the country, she didn't want to live in a cave and become queen of the morlocks or anything, she just wanted to have fun with her powers, she was also smarter than most of the other characters until she did her villain monologue at the end and then I knew she was doomed. I’m not asking for evil magicians all I’m asking is for a little more grey, like perhaps a magician whose a perfectly swell guy but doesn't cry himself to sleep every night if he occasionally uses his fireballs to I don’t know, blast a mugger who tried to attack him, or you know, They fight crime!! these people spend the bulk of their adolescence being carefully educated in the ways of magic so that they can…uhh…can…what exactly is it they DO? Aaannd they get a "generous allowance" from the king for doing it, good lord their magical civil servants

Ok, so I got a little sidetracked there. The book is so-so, not good, not bad I'm disappointed in it but just know I'm going to end up reading the traitor Queen, i'm 2/3rds of the way in now, might as well stick it out.(less)

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Aug 23, 2012 Lauren rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

**SPOILER ALERT**

I much preferred this book to the previous installment in the Traitor Spy Trilogy, 'The Ambassador's Mission'. I felt that this book focused more on the characters we know and love, and was much more exciting and fast paced. I also loved references and parallels to th Black Magician Trilogy - especially the waterfall! ;) :')

The only thing I really don't like about this book is Dannyl and Tayend. Now. I fell in love with Dannyl in the first book, and when I found out he was gay i...more

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Jul 07, 2012 Crazyjamie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In my review of The Ambassador's Mission, the first book in the Traitor Spy trilogy, I made a point of highlighting the strong characters and easy flowing dialogue that have become the trademark of Trudi Canavan's fantasy novels. In The Rogue, that pattern continues, with Canavan continuing to demonstrate the same ability to draw the reader in with characters and dialogue that can be seen throughout her books.

The obvious point to make about The Rogue is that the novelty of The Ambassador's Miss...more

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Jul 04, 2011 Natalie rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

did not enjoy this book nearly as much as I had hoped. It is not like I hated it, but I found it to be very dull. I couldn't get into Trudi Canavan's writing style at all and the way she kept jumping from character to character to character annoyed me. I never managed to know or care about them, though several seemed like they could be interesting if given the opportunity.

Lilia, for example. She is a gentle, naive girl just learning about love and she is led to do a foolish, dangerous thing. In...more

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Oct 09, 2012 Christine rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I was quite disappointed with this sequel. The writing style hasn't changed, and it is still enjoyable, however, there were several factors that took away my interest in the book.

The first was the introduction of new characters. Not necessarily a bad thing in books, of course, but none of the new characters were very well introduced, and as a result it was very hard to try and care about what happened to them, and to resist the urge to skip past the parts of the Lilia and Naki plotline especiall...more

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Jun 26, 2011 Lord Nouda rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: reviewed, fantasy

It was a bit annoying due to the fact that there's a lot of unnecessary factors in the book. It would seem as though Trudi Canavan is seriously trying to put the spotlight on the homosexual community in the series, and that's even more pronounced in this book where she introduces not just two but 3 entirely new characters (all chicks) who have the hots for each other (or so they claim). In the last book, it was the guys, now it's the opposite side of the spectrum. So out of all the characters in...more

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May 10, 2011 Julia rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I've read this one twice. Once very quickly, skipping through a LOT, and once carefully, trying not to skip as much.

My opinion, though very bad at first, has slightly changed. It's better than I first thought it was. You can see how it's a middle book, but it has interesting scenes.
One thing I've never liked about Trudi Canavan was the romances in her books… and I still think they're sometimes quite ridiculous, but that might just be my opinion. There are scenes that I was not sure whether to...more I've read this one twice. Once very quickly, skipping through a LOT, and once carefully, trying not to skip as much.

My opinion, though very bad at first, has slightly changed. It's better than I first thought it was. You can see how it's a middle book, but it has interesting scenes.
One thing I've never liked about Trudi Canavan was the romances in her books… and I still think they're sometimes quite ridiculous, but that might just be my opinion. There are scenes that I was not sure whether to laugh at or to cry about, but all in all, there are worse things. I am still disappointed, especially because many things seemed obvious or even too plot-directed.

In general, she repeats a lot of information. Yes, it's the nature of different viewpoints, but somehow, it just gets tedious.

Now, on to SPOILERS.
***WARNING, WARNING, WARNING, DON'T READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILERED***

Well, not plot-relevant, but still might spoiling some: I was surprised at how the book features 5 clearly gay characters and one… of which at this point is not clear whether she is gay or whether she faked being gay. And it's both male and female.
I've liked Trudi Canavan for it in BMT. It was way underdone, but it was there, at the very least. Now, after "The Magician's Apprentice" and the traitor spy trilogy, I think that if she was planning to make it such a big part of her books, then she could have done it better. On the other hand, I'll be shipping… the last couple to kiss in the book… from now on, so I don't think it's too bad. Also, middle aged gay men are a rare sight and kudos to her for making it realistic.

Lorkin, also, was more bearable, although… although it was hard to get through a few of his thoughts. In general, I found it tedious to plough through some of the bits.

Most disappointed I am at how little Dannyl/Tayend interaction was in the book… In fact, given what was in the book, I have a nagging feeling Canavan might kill one of the two. But I have, of course, no real reason to believe that and there is absolutely no proof or reason to worry. I've just contemplated about it.
But the real reason I'm upset is because there's hardly any dialogue… I'd have liked to better understand the two. I know they're supposed to be drifting apart, but Canavan has failed (to me) in doing it in a way that I still find Dannyl sympathetic.

***SPOILERS END HERE***

All in all, I will continue reading. Because I want to know what the conclusion or the big drama is. Because Canavan's strengths lie in the last books. Because I guess I'm still hooked on a few characters.
I was disappointed, overall, but not overly. It's a middle book, after all, and there are a few very interesting things about the world which make the read entertaining. And, hey, it got me thinking about the story for a whole day, even if it wasn't in the most positive light.
Those who love Trudi Canavan's style will certainly learn to enjoy it, even if no eternal love may blossom. (less)

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May 12, 2011 Claire rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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You can definitely tell that this is a 'middle' book. A lot of the book is setting the story up for the final book in the series. I read this straight from the Ambassador's Mission.

I wasn't very interested in Lilia's story, and a lot of what happens to her reminded me of Sonea in the original trilogy (not fitting in, being bullied, etc). It also felt like Trudi felt obliged to put lesbians in the story - the romance / infatuation of her character didn't feel realistic or believable to me, and qu...more

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May 11, 2011 Wai rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is a hard book to review. Whilst I did enjoy a lot of it, it also suffered from middle book syndrome in that the main plot isn't even close to being resolved. Obviously, if it had been wrapped up, then there'd be no trilogy, would there? Don't answer that.

So after the events at the end of the last, the two main points are that everyone is desperately searching for Skellin and Lorkin has been taken to the home of the Traitors. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then you're starting in...more This is a hard book to review. Whilst I did enjoy a lot of it, it also suffered from middle book syndrome in that the main plot isn't even close to being resolved. Obviously, if it had been wrapped up, then there'd be no trilogy, would there? Don't answer that.

So after the events at the end of the last, the two main points are that everyone is desperately searching for Skellin and Lorkin has been taken to the home of the Traitors. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then you're starting in the wrong place and need to go back and read The Ambassador's Mission. Whilst not necessary, I'd also recommend reading the Black Magician trilogy as this involves the same characters some twenty years later.

Let me get what I didn't like about the story out of the way and that essentially boils down to lack of progress in the Skellin plotline. Granted I didn't expect much progress but I would have liked to have seen some. In fact, Skellin didn't make an appearance at all. There's that and also the fact that there was little action. A couple of pages over brief fights and a brief kidnapping but they were resolved too quickly.

Now that that's out of the way, here's what I did like. We're introduced to a new character, Lilia a novice whose family were servants. I really liked this story line and found myself rooting for her as she falls under the sway of another novice, Naki, an apparent beauty from the upper classes of society. Lilia is seen to grow in character as she comes to terms with her sexuality and her love with Naki which may or may not be returned as well as the life changing events thrust upon her as she encounters the forbidden art of black magic.

It might be said that Lilia is a token nod to the lesbian community perhaps to balance out that we already have Dannyl who is openly gay. Whatever the reason that Lilia was introduced, I felt that her story was deftly handled and hopefully we'll see more of her in The Traitor Queen.

Lorkin's time amongst the Traitors also advances nicely as he is put to work in an attempt to pay for his father's not honouring his part of a deal. It was good to see the Traitor's society expanded upon, having first met them in The Magician's Apprentice (a prequel to the entire series - another book that is not necessary but will certainly enrich the world).

Finally, there is Sonea, the heroine from the Black Magician trilogy, a black magician herself and how comes to terms with a face from the past and at the same time handling the search for Skellin.

Overall, it's not a rivetting read, but if you enjoy Trudi Canavan's work and picked up The Ambassor's Mission, then this should be an enjoyable read.(less)

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Sep 02, 2011 Elise rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Although Trudi Canavan is a terrific author and I love the world she has created, I have to say I was a little dissapointed by this novel... Things happened very slowly (escpesially in the beginning) and the constant change of the different storylines alternated between being somehow relieving or being terribly annoing - the moment you really wanted to know what happened next the story changed to a different character.

The characters in The Rogue are pretty much the same as in The Ambassador's M...more

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Jan 26, 2013 Moira rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Druhý díl Trilogie Zrádkyň. Ohledně očekávání jsem byla opatrná, protože druhé díly trilogií nebývají zpravidla nejlepšími kousky trilogií. Smutné, ale pravdivé. Bohužel i v tomto případě. Tím nechci říct, že by snad kniha byla špatná. Canavan umí psát, ve svém světě už po pěti, vlastně dokonce šesti knihách už chodit umí a má fantazii, která poutá. Takže přestože není Čarodějova zrada vrcholem Canavaniny tvorby, přesto je to poutavá kniha, kterou stojí za to přečíst.

Čarodějova zrada navazuje na...more Druhý díl Trilogie Zrádkyň. Ohledně očekávání jsem byla opatrná, protože druhé díly trilogií nebývají zpravidla nejlepšími kousky trilogií. Smutné, ale pravdivé. Bohužel i v tomto případě. Tím nechci říct, že by snad kniha byla špatná. Canavan umí psát, ve svém světě už po pěti, vlastně dokonce šesti knihách už chodit umí a má fantazii, která poutá. Takže přestože není Čarodějova zrada vrcholem Canavaniny tvorby, přesto je to poutavá kniha, kterou stojí za to přečíst.

Čarodějova zrada navazuje na Vyslancovu misi, bez přečtení této knihy budete zmatení. Na druhou stranu to skýtá možnost hezky všechny dějové linky rozvinout, různě splést a více propracovat. Vracíme se k Sonee a její dějové linii o problémům s návykovou drogou roet a také o nebezpečném čaroději, který se roetem snaží Imardin, hlavní město Kyriliie, království našich hrdinů, ovládnout.
Znovu cestujeme s Dannylem, který má jako vždy toulavé choutky, a cestujeme s ním Sachakou, pokud zrovna netancuje na politickém parketu. Což naštěstí zas tak často nebylo.
Více se dozvídáme o Lorkinovi. Všimli jste si, že jsem nenapsala "synovi Soney"? Má to svůj důvod. Ten hoch v téhle knize vyrostl a konečně jej začínám brát jako charakter, který by ještě mohl zaujmout. Možná už se tak i stalo.
A docela nečekaně se do příběhu vplétá další, zbrusu nová postava – Lilia. Co si pro tuto dívku autorka vymyslí, to vás nechám zjistit samotné. Řeknu jen, že mě to překvapilo, i když by možná nemělo.

Dokonce i malá proradnost mívá ošklivé důsledky. – Sonea (str. 49)

Děj se v druhém díle trilogie prohlubuje, splétá a je krásně zamotaný. Autorka se nesnaží psát pro hlupáky, ale taky nijak nepřekombinovává, takže je to takové příjemné čtení. Sice jsem měla místy pocit, že se honíme v kruhu, takže je to místy až únavné, ale čekám, že si autorka nechává to nejlepší jako třešničku na dort k třetímu dílu.

Více poznáváme Zrádkyně, rebely uvnitř krutého království Sachaky, a konečně odhalujeme jejich dobré i špatné stránky. Na knize mě nejspíše nejvíce zaujalo Dannylovo pátrání. Strašně se mi líbilo, jak Canavan pomocí toho roztěkaného alchymisty a historika prohlubuje svůj svět. A jsem strašně zvědavá na jeho pátrání, co se stalo po Sachakanské válce a co je to ta zatracená Pustina.

Postavy, nu, postavy. Autorka o nich umí psát, jsou dobré. Kniha je psána z pohledů více postav, takže se propracovanost charakterů počítá. Celkově k postavám nijak velké výhrady nemám, jistě, tentokrát mě až tolik nezasáhly, ale propracované byly. Možná mi trochu vadilo, že Sonea se mi zdá... plochá. Jako by autorka spoléhala na to, že když už její milou povahu známe, nemusí ji tak často projevovat.

Autorka se opět blýskla, co se magie, kultury a "své země" celkově týče. Pro psaní tohoto má talent, má fantazii, která jí pomáhá vymýšlet její kouzelný svět. Myslím, že kdyby Canavan psala o svých hrdinech v kuse, jednoho dne by došla do bodu, kdy by byl její svět stejně opravdový, jako ten náš.

Nachytá tě vždycky ten hlídač, kterého nevidíš. – Naki (str. 111)

Nakonec? Kniha je dobrá, ale jen za předpokladu, že máte Trilogii Zrádkyň rozečtenou. Bez prvního dílu se lehce ztratíte a mnoho narážek a odkazů vás jen zmate, stejně jako pojmů, které už byly v prvním díle vysvětleny. Na druhou stranu máte různorodé a poutavé postavy, situace, které překvapují, a dobrý děj. Není to vrchol autorčiny tvorby, přesto je to příjemná kniha, kterou jsem si ráda přečetla. A rozhodně si přečtu i poslední díl, nemůžu se dočkat toho, co si pro nás autorka vymyslela.(less)

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Oct 17, 2012 Sean the Bookonaut rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Rogue picks up from where The Ambassadors Mission finished. There’s some backgrounding for those readers who might be coming in at book two instead of book one. In essence though, it’s your standard book two with a continuation of the overarching plot and some interesting subplots thrown in to increase the tension.

The Rogueis characterised by uncomplicated prose, a focus on relationships, adventure and as I have mentioned in the review of book one - magic that serves to enhance the narrative

...more The Rogue picks up from where The Ambassadors Mission finished. There’s some backgrounding for those readers who might be coming in at book two instead of book one. In essence though, it’s your standard book two with a continuation of the overarching plot and some interesting subplots thrown in to increase the tension.

The Rogueis characterised by uncomplicated prose, a focus on relationships, adventure and as I have mentioned in the review of book one - magic that serves to enhance the narrative rather than be a complicated feature that needs considerable exposition.

In The Rogue, Skellin is still at large. Lord Lorkin is still under house arrest among the Sachakan Traitors and Dannyl, the Guild Ambassador is concentrating on searching for the answers to fill the holes in Guild History. The series seems to be building to a conflict, though at this stage I can’t quite work out whether its going to between the Sachakans and the Kyralians or if the hints that Canavan has dropped about Skellin’s people will feature more.

What impressed me about The Rogue was Canavan’s continual positive portrayal of same sex relationships. It would have been easy to continue on just featuring the tension between Dannyl, Tayend and Acharti and left it at that. But Canavan went further than that and by books end we have three times as many same sex relationships featured than heterosexual. Its refreshing to see that the series is so widely well received.

I’d recommend Traitor Spy Series series as a gateway book into the fantasy genre as a whole and as an example of an author who can deliver positive representations of same sex relationships in what is generally a masculine centric and conservative field.

If you are a veteran reader of the field you may find the prose too uncomplicated, and the fantasy elements not particularly new , then again I think that Canavan’s exploration of gender roles and of sexuality are something worthy of reflection I eagerly await the conclusion of book three.

I reviewed The Ambassadors Mission here.

I interviewed Trudi Canavan for Galactic Chat here.

This book was provided by the author at no cost to myself.

This review is part of the Australian Women Writers Challenge 2012. Please check out this page for more great writing from Australian women.

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Sep 08, 2012 Lisa rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Lacklustre middle offering in the Traitor Queen trilogy that highlighted all of the problems in this series for me and made me wonder if it was even worth bothering to read the last effort.

I've enjoyed both of Canavan's previous series so it's possible that it's me that's changed in the meantime, having been privileged to read such epic, complex fantasy books as those from Abercrombie and Martin, but this time around this series has felt way too simplistic, with Canavan walking us through spell...more

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Dec 16, 2012 Emmalg rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is the second book in the Traitor Spy trilogy which continues the story of Black Magician Sonea from The Black Magician trilogy and the younger generation of Guild Magicians.

I enjoyed this book more than The Ambassador's mission as the focus has now changed from introducing the situations and characters to building on their experiences. I love how well edited the books are; each storyline is integrated to maintain the pace throughout the book, as the story one set of characters is involved...more

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Dec 27, 2012 Chris rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book and the last have not surprised me. Noone wants a good story to end and therefore trudi in producing this gave black magician fans something to chew on. However i feel having only just read these books, now that all of them are released, that i enjoy and follow the story. In the case of readers who have waited for each book to come out i can understand any dissapointment you might have felt. The books are just not as good as the first series so far.

The story is good, the charecters are...more

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Apr 27, 2013 Emma rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I have similar mixed feelings about this installment as I did about the first book in this series. Once again not very much actually happened and if I was to list the events in this book it would be a very short list. Now of course books don't have to be action packed to be good but they have to have something in them that drives the story along and this book lacked that spark.

I felt like I was reading a book that was entirely padding out a different story. Perhaps everything will kick off in th...more I have similar mixed feelings about this installment as I did about the first book in this series. Once again not very much actually happened and if I was to list the events in this book it would be a very short list. Now of course books don't have to be action packed to be good but they have to have something in them that drives the story along and this book lacked that spark.

I felt like I was reading a book that was entirely padding out a different story. Perhaps everything will kick off in the final book but now I've read the first two I can't help thinking that this trilogy would have been better off as one large book. Perhaps the success of the first two trilogies has contributed towards the decision to make this into a trilogy too. The characters spent so much time thinking about possibilities and considering what the other character was thinking that it got a little boring in places. A lot of it was repetitive so many pages were wasted.

I love Sonea and I wish she had more to get her teeth into. Lorkin interests me but I'm not completely enamoured with him. I found the relationships in this book frustrating. I think it's good that Canavan has given all kinds of relationships prominence but I also feel that it's a little convenient that all of the three gay female characters conveniently seem to like one another straight away. It also didn't help that I clocked onto what was going on with the Naki/Lilia storyline on page 192. Then I spent the rest of the book wondering whether it was intentionally obvious.

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Don't get me wrong. I did enjoy reading the book. I was just always waiting for that little bit more, that extra depth of feeling, and it just didn't come. I'll be reading the last book as soon as I can. Hopefully it will finally come alive. (less)

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Jul 01, 2011 Omi rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: magic, fantasy, m-m-sidepairing, f-f-sidepairing

I was doubting wether to give this book 3 or 4 stars. I'll settle on 3 since it is well-written, entertaining and I do like Ms. Canavan's universe a lot. The downside is that the book, although more interesting than the first volume in the second trilogy, rarely reaches the level of the second and third volume in the first Black Magician trilogy. It has good moments, and many likeable characters, although they are not explored in any great depth. I'm still a Sonea fan, and a BIG Dannyl fan, and...more

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Feb 01, 2013 Hope rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The second book in the trilogy, following Lorkin's relocation with the Traitors, Sonea and Cery's search for Skellin and Dannyl's adventures as an ambassador for the Guild.

We learn so much more about the Traitor lifestyle, it sort of parallels what our world is like. Women are in charge and women have the final say in everything, though our society is trying to get more gender equality, it's still not quite there yet, since women are still getting discriminated against in our world.

We get introd...more

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Jun 08, 2012 Kari rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi-fantasy-horror

This book was just a bit pedestrian really. I got the overwhelming feeling that Canavan committed herself to a trilogy without actually having enough material to cover all three books. Book 2 was therefore just filler struggling to be interesting and left me realising that nothing much happened that couldn't have been left out. Canavan also seemed to of realised that after 5 books in this series she had neglected the gay community of her created lands and sort to remedy this by throwing as many...more

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Dec 26, 2011 Luke rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I had no idea this boook was out until I saw it on a shelf at the local library. I immediatly grabbed it, eager to continue the series. Now I've finished the book, I must say I feel a little.... underwhelmed. It feels as though through the entire book not a whole lot happened.

This isn't to say I didn't enjoy it, I just didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. It didn't really leave me wanting more like previous books have. Also the emphasis on homosexulaity is much stronger here than has b...more

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May 08, 2011 Justin rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: epic, fantasy, read-2011, not-good, 2011-release, hachette

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The Rogue , the second book in Trudi Canavan's Traitor Spy Trilogy , picks up right where The Ambassador's Mission left off. Unfortunately four hundred plus pages
later Canavan has not moved a lot closer to resolving the conflicts introduced in what was a promising first book. Finishing the second installment left me underwhelmed.

Since anyone thinking about reading The Rogue has surely read the preceding book, I'm not going to delve into the plot much. S...more

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Aug 03, 2012 Pat rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The second installment in Trudi Canavan's followup to her Black Magician trilogy, set almost entirely in the neighboring country of Sachaka... this one was kinda ho-hum. It felt... thin. The characters I was interested in didn't get enough stage time and the characters with the most stage time didn't really seem to be thinking very well. Sonea, the young girl of the first trilogy, is a more interesting character than Sonea the grown woman and mother in the second trilogy, and the flaw here is th...more

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May 15, 2011 Charles Bond rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I was taken back once again to the land of Imardin. Although, I did find the first few chapters a little out of Trudi's voice, if you will, it did come back to her style, and it was like I never left there.
A new character is born, young Lilia. We have to follow her in some parts on a wild journey of her discovery of not only herself, but of higher magic. I was captivated from, perhaps the forth chapter, lol, which lasted to the end.
We had to ask once before, just what might happen to Cery and An...more

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May 30, 2013 Micah Scelsi rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy

I gave the first book in this series a break because I thought the author was building something and had a good idea to go into the future and talk about Sonea's son. I have to agree with many other reviews that in many respects Lorkin is a minor and undeveloped character. Sonea is still the most interesting, and her role develops more in this book. Nonetheless, I am also disturbed at how many gay characters crop up in these books.
The author has put interesting twists using homosexuals in the p...more

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Jan 20, 2013 Justin rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I liked this book and its predecessor much more than I should have done. Although I'm always fishing around for good fantasy books (and too often failing), I don't know why I decided to get this trilogy - I'm not a big fan of magic in my fantasy and it's all about magic and magicians. And then I found the characters somewhat basic, and Trudi Canavan has an annoying habit of putting different character's thoughts into italics, and there's no individuality to the thoughts, and they seem so unlikel...more

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Mar 05, 2013 Scott rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This series is written very differently from many that I have previosuly read. I am going to read the first trilogy once I am done the last book which I already started.

It is a slower pace and not much action/fighting. Throughout the entire book, you keep waiting for things to go crazy or speed up. This does not happen and there is very little "magic" use even though it is a theme throughout the series.

I wanted more to happen with the Black Magic, but it was not there.

Overall, it is not badly...more

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Jan 15, 2012 Angella rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book was a lot better I finish it in record time.I can hardly wait for the next book.
The Rogue, the second book in Trudi Canavan's Traitor Spy Trilogy, picks up right where The Ambassador's Mission left off.Since anyone thinking about reading The Rogue has surely read the preceding book, I'm not going to delve into the plot much. Suffice to say, all the old cast of characters are back and Canavan introduces one new face, Lilia - a budding magician trying to fit in.
The book ends with two cli...more

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Mar 23, 2012 Becki rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Rogue is the second book in Trudi Canavan’s Traitor Spy Trilogy, which is sent twenty years after the events of her Black Magician Trilogy. This means that there are plenty of familiar faces and places, for those who have read Canavan’s previous works, but we are also introduced to some new ones in this book.

As the blurb indicates, the storyline is split into four separate threads which means that there is a lot of jumping about. However, I did not find this to be a bad thing as it meant the...more

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About Trudi Canavan

Trudi Canavan was born in Kew, Melbourne and grew up in Ferntree Gully, a suburb at the foothills of the Dandenongs.

In 1999 she won the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story with “Whispers of the Mist Children”. In the same year she was granted a writers residency at Varuna Writers’ Centre in Katoomba, New South Wales.

In November 2001, The Magicians’ Guild was first published in Australia. T...more

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