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Trinity Rising (Wild Hunt #2)
by
Elspeth Cooper (Goodreads Author)
The future holds nothing but blood and death . . . and Teia fears there is nothing she can do about it. Her clan is riding to war, but her secret, untrained gift of foretelling has shown her they are riding to their doom. If she cannot turn them from their course, her only hope of saving them will be to betray them to their sworn enemies.
Gair is mourning his past . . . but...more
Gair is mourning his past . . . but...more
Hardcover, 488 pages
Published
July 26th 2012
by Gollancz
(first published 2012)
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I liked the first book of this series quite a lot. Didn't love it, but then it was not the type of book that I would normally slip in to the LOVE category. (I tend to LOVE only seriously dark, funny, epic, raw, original, well written fantasy - and that's a big ask) All of that said. I liked it enough to want to read the next.
So, book two, Trinity Rising....
It took me a bit to get into this one, mainly because we don't see the main protagonist of the first book (Gair) for a fair while. I found t...more
So, book two, Trinity Rising....
It took me a bit to get into this one, mainly because we don't see the main protagonist of the first book (Gair) for a fair while. I found t...more
Much like the previous title on the Wildhunt Trilogy, Trinity Rising is a well written fantasy story. Nothing more.
***You might one to read my review on Songs of the Earth***
The main problem with this book -the past entry suffered from it in a minor scale- is the structure. The first third of the book we encounter a new protagonist Teia with her own story -the best story up to now in the series- and Savin's -the villain from the first book- point of view of the former title. More or less about...more
***You might one to read my review on Songs of the Earth***
The main problem with this book -the past entry suffered from it in a minor scale- is the structure. The first third of the book we encounter a new protagonist Teia with her own story -the best story up to now in the series- and Savin's -the villain from the first book- point of view of the former title. More or less about...more
Elspeth Cooper's debut novel
Songs of the Earth
, grabbed the top spot on my Books of 2011 list. The book had many very familiar tropes and hearkened back to the old-school fantasies of my youth. Reading it gave me warm and fuzzy feelings and just made me plain happy, so I forgave the flaws I did notice. Its basic elements may not have been cutting edge, Cooper wielded them with skill and managed to give them enough of a twist so that I really enjoyed the book. Needless to say, I've been excited...more
Enjoyed this more than Songs of The Earth, which is still a great story. I don't know if that was for the fact that this was an audio rather than ebook, or that it is simply a better book. Not an easy feat for a mid series novel. Apologies therefore for any errors in spelling :)
Any assertions of YA have been left behind, featuring explicit, and often very abusive sexual scenes. This story is grown up in a lot of other ways too - the secondary character of Tanith is being explored and developed,...more
A little over a year ago, Elspeth Cooper’s Songs of the Earth completely blew me away with its elegant simplicity and neoclassical approach to a very familiar fantasy story; that of a young man with abilities beyond his control, and a story woven around him that will change his life and shape the world, which hangs in the balance.
I’m a big fan of neoclassical. I love it, in fact, and whenever I get the chance to, I talk to writers about it. I did with Cooper and after the interview with her and...more
I’m a big fan of neoclassical. I love it, in fact, and whenever I get the chance to, I talk to writers about it. I did with Cooper and after the interview with her and...more
Savin has continued to attack Gair and Alderan and has implanted a demon into Gair. Gair and Alderan struggle to find the means to fight Savin by using the books from the convent to protect the Veil from Savin. Teia, left bereft by the death of the chief of the Crainnh, Drw, has been selected by Drw's son, Drwyn, a much more base and cruel man, as his new lover at the encouragement of Ytha, the tribe Speaker. The Clans are assembling to decide if the time is right to join together in the Wild Hu...more
First, I must preface my comments about Trinity Rising by saying Cooper sure can write -- her prose is, in fact, so eloquent, it is bordering on cumbersome (with the screeds of service paid to names for people and places in quick succession, in particular). For the most part, however, it is rich, oftimes reminiscent of Rothfuss. Furthermore, Songs of the Earth bears plenty of semblance to The Name of the Wind; it is a heroic fantasy with a young male protagonist with tortuous memories fuelling h...more
Takes off from where we left off in book 1 and ramps up the pressure. Gair is mourning his lost love, Teia is trying to deal with her own abilities and her role in the world and Savin is spreading havoc and hatred as well as doing his best to subvert Gair and everything he stands for.
It's an interesting read, very much dependent on book 1 and the cliff-hanger left me gagging for more. Gair is starting to become a character I really care for and want to succeed but I can also see that Teia will h...more
It's an interesting read, very much dependent on book 1 and the cliff-hanger left me gagging for more. Gair is starting to become a character I really care for and want to succeed but I can also see that Teia will h...more
This is one of those mid series books where we follow some plotlines a bit further but nothing much happens. To be fair, a new character is introduced and we get a bit of her story, but it would be nice to have something to knit the characters together in each of the books ... A desperate defence at the end of the first book (which we got), perhaps a building of an alliance in the second (which was only hinted) and the final tirumph in the third. The author did write a note about how hard she fo...more
All in all I liked this book although if I'm being totally honest the beginning of the book was quite long and drawn out and although it was fun to get to know Teia as a new character all I really wanted to know when I opened the book up to its first wonderful page was, what was happening to Gair. It took almost half the book though before we even really got to see his name in print and then we were still dealing with things that had already happened in the first book that we now had to read abo...more
It was OK, as the two star rating says.
I absolutely fell in love with the first book, it's actually in my top 3 probably.
[SPOILER ALERT]
I actually really liked the story of Teia. It was very different than Gair's and really added to how the Song could be very different with different people. Plus I was actually kind of waiting for a first person perspective of someone else who heard the Song.
Though Gair's story kind of dissapointed me. I was waiting for more assest to characters he interacted wi...more
I absolutely fell in love with the first book, it's actually in my top 3 probably.
[SPOILER ALERT]
I actually really liked the story of Teia. It was very different than Gair's and really added to how the Song could be very different with different people. Plus I was actually kind of waiting for a first person perspective of someone else who heard the Song.
Though Gair's story kind of dissapointed me. I was waiting for more assest to characters he interacted wi...more
Disclaimer: received through goodreads giveaway.
Trinity Rising returns with many of the characters from songs of the earth and leads us further into the veil and the world beyond it. We get to see more from Savin's side and his drive, go off on another adventure with Gair and Alderin, pick up from the end of the songs of the earth and follow Tannith back to her people and court and are introduced to another character Teia and her clan.
I enjoyed the jumping around between characters and places as...more
Trinity Rising returns with many of the characters from songs of the earth and leads us further into the veil and the world beyond it. We get to see more from Savin's side and his drive, go off on another adventure with Gair and Alderin, pick up from the end of the songs of the earth and follow Tannith back to her people and court and are introduced to another character Teia and her clan.
I enjoyed the jumping around between characters and places as...more
I really enjoyed the first book and felt this one was worth reading. the book didn't quite do it for me though the new character point of views were well done, but the story was slow and at the end I felt that there was little plot or character development. Othee than have a new main character introduced I felt a little disappointment
What I liked: All the rotating stories and the non stop action. The wonderful characters and politics. The way it rewove the story, gathering the bits that seemed sketchy in the last book.
What I need: The next book.
What I need: The next book.
I found this book a tad slow at the beginning. The protagonist of the first book doesn't show up until halfway through the story. I was impatient to hear more about him ,but when they finally switched from Teia to Gair I was surprised how much I cared about her story and wanted to keep reading it. I think that if it had started out with Gair's story I might not have given Tia's a chance. I would not have realized how much I cared about what happened to her and in turn would have enjoyed this boo...more
It took me a while to get into the new story lines as I was use to just following Gair though the first book. So I was quite surprised at the beginning as I figured out this books some characters POV overlapped some of the previous book and them moved on to catch up. Once I got into it I didn't want to put it down. I like the new characters. I found myself willing them on. I wanted them to meet up and start putting the pieces together. I was a bit disappointed at the end. I didn't feel anything...more
Waiting for audio publishing
Well finished the audiobook enjoyed the story, but lacked the detail I yearn for and finished to soon. I'm looking forward to to the new books and enjoying the characters so its a thumbs up with a massive potential for the story moving on.
Fantastic in some ways but not in others. Enjoyable, fast, gripping in parts but perhaps not quite epic enough. Good ending though and will be waiting for the last installment.
Not as good as the first but was very good indeed! New characters are shaping up for what will be happening within the next two books. Cannot wait to see how everything pans out!
My review is here http://www.darkmatterfanzine.com/dmf/...
The first was ok...this one was a bit slow
Read my review here.
May 17, 2013
Smeagoldor
marked it as to-read
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Elspeth Cooper was born and raised in Newcastle upon Tyne in the north-east of England. Her parents read her Ivanhoe as a bedtime story, which was, she says, their first mistake. An inspired primary school teacher introduced her to Beowulf, and by age 11 she'd worked her way through every book in the house, including her Dad's Penguin Classics editions of The Odyssey and The Iliad. The Lord of the...more
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