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The Watchtower (Black Swan Rising #2)

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The last in a long line of women sworn to guard our world against evil, jeweller Garet James is struggling to come to terms with who - or what - she really is.

Will Hughes, the alluring four-hundred-year-old vampire who tasted her blood and saved her life, could help, but he's disappeared. Garet believes he's in France, searching for the Summer Country, the legendary land...more

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Published August 4th 2011 by Bantam Press (first published August 1st 2011)

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Feb 15, 2013 Fangs for the Fantasy rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

When we last left Garret and Will, Will had stolen the box in the hope of traveling to the summer country in order to become human again. In The Watchtower, Garret follows Will's trail, determined to join him on his journey. The Watchtower shifts POV between Garret and Will for a large part of the story and we see the romance between Will and Marguerite. It is essentially the story of Will's attempt to become human and Garret's bid to help him.

Part of the problem with this story is that in Black...more When we last left Garret and Will, Will had stolen the box in the hope of traveling to the summer country in order to become human again. In The Watchtower, Garret follows Will's trail, determined to join him on his journey. The Watchtower shifts POV between Garret and Will for a large part of the story and we see the romance between Will and Marguerite. It is essentially the story of Will's attempt to become human and Garret's bid to help him.

Part of the problem with this story is that in Black Swan Rising, we were told what happened between Will and Marguerite, making this entire plot anti-climactic. It wasn't helped by the fact that there is absolutely nothing compelling about young Will. He is the typical emo, overwrought, angst ridden, male love interest. I also found myself skipping the poetry. It was just over the top and irritating. For this to have worked, Carroll either should not have given us so much of Will's back story in the first book, or written his character differently. It was however slightly amusing to at least have Will acknowledge that his past self was ridiculous, just as young Will was ripping his shirt and screaming poetry into the night.

What kept this story moving was Garret's attempt to follow Will. Unfortunately, it essentially moved from speaking with faerie A, then to faerie B, then faerie C etc,. Garret didn't really investigate, she simply was passively moved along. I do like protagonists that aren't necessarily running around kicking ass and taking names but at the same time, reading as Garret passively moved from place to place and allowed everyone else to take an active role really wasn't that interesting. It is worth noting that Carroll once again spent a lot of time doing research because the the faeries were varied and true to the lore surrounding them. Someone who is interested in faeries will find this part of the story very interesting.

It was good to see Garret question her love for Will. Black Swan Rising really did feel a lot like love at first woo-woo, without any basis for this romance. Garret really knows nothing about Will, beyond the fact that he has a history of falling in love with her ancestors. Will of course had the typical belief that he isn't good enough for Garret. Unfortunately, too much of this story is based on the relationship between Garret and Will and though it was good to see them question the basis of their relationship, it simply wasn't enough and I am not convinced that the romance was enough of a hook for this story.

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Nov 08, 2012 Vanessa rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: urban-fantasy

Garet James is the last in a line of women "watchtowers" who protect humanity from evil--particularly the magic kind. In BLACK SWAN RISING she had to learn about her unknown powers and save New York City from destruction. She had the help of faries, goblins, as well as that of the rich and handsome vampire Will Hughes. But he has disappeared, leaving clues for Garet to follow.

If you remember my review for BLACK SWAN RISING (I had a hard time with the love story between Garet and Will. It was sud...more Garet James is the last in a line of women "watchtowers" who protect humanity from evil--particularly the magic kind. In BLACK SWAN RISING she had to learn about her unknown powers and save New York City from destruction. She had the help of faries, goblins, as well as that of the rich and handsome vampire Will Hughes. But he has disappeared, leaving clues for Garet to follow.

If you remember my review for BLACK SWAN RISING (I had a hard time with the love story between Garet and Will. It was sudden and inexplicable and emotionless--it's hard for a romance to be believable when you don't understand why two characters love each other. So when the second book,

THE WATCHTOWER so depended on their love in order to explain Garet's motivation to follow Will...it didn't bode well.

Garet must travel to Paris and find the path to the Summer Country to find Will on his quest to cure himself of his vampirism. Those details are interesting and creative as Carroll draws out the history and lore surrounding the magic of the Fae and their lives in Paris. Carroll also does well painting a picture of Paris itself and its view from an up-close street level--much like was done successfully with New York City in SWAN.

Unfortunately, that's the best part of the book, and it's not enough to keep the reader interested. Instead, we get the love story of Will and Marguerite (Garet's grandmother+great I don't know how many times, it wasn't clear) of 400 years ago mixed in with Garet's present-day search. What's wrong with that, you ask? Carroll already told us how that particular story ends in SWAN. So I'm reading a story of a spoiled and emo 19-year-old Will falling in swooning love at first sight, and I already know what's going to happen...and, yeah. Had a hard time enjoying that. Add on the fact that Garet and Will spend the majority of the book apart, and when they're together I'm still not sure why they love each other.

If I had liked Will more, I might have been more interested in his origins, but he behaved so erratically and took Garet's stuff only to leave her behind in SWAN, so going into THE WATCHTOWER I would have been fine if she'd washed her hands of him. My other question is: Why name the book THE WATCHTOWER if Garet doesn't do watchtower-ish things? Sure she is clever and able to follow the clues, but she leaves the hard stuff for others in the end. Again. Maybe the book is about Marguerite the original watchtower? But we don't see Marguerite protect the world from evil, she just moons over Will. Now I understand where Garet gets it from. But I still don't understand why.

And then the Summer Country and time travel and magic watches and...I just got confused at where the story was taking me. Why the characters did the things they did. Why magic worked the way it did. By the end I just wanted it to be over. There will be a sequel. I don't plan on reading it.

Recommended Age: 16+
Language: Very little
Violence: Some, although without detail
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Oct 11, 2012 Em rated it 4 of 5 stars

The Watchtower is the 2nd book in the Black Swan Trilogy. It picks up where we left off, Garet has travlled to France to try to find Will who left her taking the silver box with him.

Where as Black Swan Rising was more fast paced this book develops the story at a much slower pace and combines two parts. In alternating chapters we follow Gart on her seacrh for Will but we also learn Will Hughes's background and how he became to be a vampire. There is a twist whch brings the two stories together an...more

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Aug 21, 2012 Nerine Dorman rated it 3 of 5 stars

Never judge a book by its cover, and this one definitely shouldn’t be. Nothing on the cover of The Watchtower indicates that it is any different than the slew of “skinny white chick in a prom gown” examples currently flooding the market. And I started reading, filled with severe misgivings that I’d just found yet another Fallen clone.

Fortunately, the cover is misleading.

First off, yes, some of the standard young adult paranormal tropes *are* present – the impossible romance between mortal and im...more Never judge a book by its cover, and this one definitely shouldn’t be. Nothing on the cover of The Watchtower indicates that it is any different than the slew of “skinny white chick in a prom gown” examples currently flooding the market. And I started reading, filled with severe misgivings that I’d just found yet another Fallen clone.

Fortunately, the cover is misleading.

First off, yes, some of the standard young adult paranormal tropes *are* present – the impossible romance between mortal and immortal, with a whiff of a love triangle. Then I’ve always held the opinion that it’s not having the tropes present, but what the author *does* with them, and writing duo Lee Carroll (husband-and-wife team Lee Slonimsky and Carol Goodman) succeed in engaging my attention. At no point did I want to hurl the book across the room.

Although this is the second book in the series (the first being Black Swan Rising) the story doesn’t suffer. There’s just enough narrative summary to sketch in the past without leading into reams and reams of exposition. Carroll keeps up a good pace from the get-go, the stakes growing higher as the story progresses as a sort of treasure hunt. Fairies, and definitely not the cutesy sort, abound, as well as the ubiquitous vampire, all wrapped up in a tale of time travel garnished with a Shakespearean theme.

What made the story for me was that Carroll paints a vivid picture of the surroundings, and characters all tangled with history and literature, so that I soon forgot I was reading. The story shifts in perspective between the main character, Garet, presented in first person, alternating with Will’s past in second person, as a sort of prequel leading up to how he became a vampire. I must admit at first the segueing took a little getting used to but by the time I got past the first few chapters, I found I enjoyed this swinging between tales – almost like reading two books simultaneously.

Garet, as a character, has far more depth than the standards such as Bella Swan or Lucinda Price, in equivalent genre novels. Although it’s clear she’s madly in love with Will Hughes, it’s refreshing to see a main character who has interests and ambitions other than just being defined by the unfortunate male with whom she’s romantically entangled. Will is not squeaky clean and there were times when I wanted Garet to kick his butt for him for being so self-absorbed. I must admit I did struggle to find his redeemable qualities, and often wondered what Garet saw in him, that she was willing to go to the ends of the earth to rescue his sorry posterior.

Overall, when it comes to the actual quality of the prose and narrative, this is possibly the better of the current crop of similar tales that I’ve encountered as reviewer, and an enjoyable read with a wicked little twist near the end.(less)

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Nov 20, 2011 Angela Oliver rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

An original and interesting take on the regular parnormal/urban fantasy with faeries being the predominent race, and faeries with a bit of a dark twist to them. However, it was rather let down by the prose. The authors are a husband/wife team, one of which is a poet. However, instead of being lyrical and evocative, the colourful language just feels clunky and unwieldly. And the characters - particularly young Will, with his lovelorn angsting, just made me want to kick him in the head and tell hi...more

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Sep 25, 2011 Marleen rated it 3 of 5 stars

At the end of the first book, Will Hughes, the vampire Garet James is in love with, ran away to France with the silver box in the hope of finding his way to the Summer Country of the Fey and a way of ending his vampire curse.
This book starts with Garet in Paris, looking for signs from Will and her own passage into the Summer Country. After meetings with various strange and mythical beings Garet does indeed find her way to Will and the Summer Country only for the pair to find that they still have...more At the end of the first book, Will Hughes, the vampire Garet James is in love with, ran away to France with the silver box in the hope of finding his way to the Summer Country of the Fey and a way of ending his vampire curse.
This book starts with Garet in Paris, looking for signs from Will and her own passage into the Summer Country. After meetings with various strange and mythical beings Garet does indeed find her way to Will and the Summer Country only for the pair to find that they still have to face the evil John Dee and his allies and for Garet to discover that you don’t always get what you wish for.
While Garet’s adventures in Paris are being narrated, the reader is also told the story of Will’s past and how exactly he ended up being a vampire.

I’m afraid this book didn’t really work for me on several levels.
My main problem lay in the fact that we had already been told the main outline of Will’s transformation in the first book and that therefore, the parts of this book describing his early life were a longer repeat of what we already knew. Couple that with the fact that I didn’t really like the character or the younger Will, and you’ll understand why I had difficulties staying with the story.
At the same time Garet’s adventures on her journey from modern day Paris to the Summer Country and beyond were not very exciting. Because Garet takes everything that happens to her at face-value and doesn’t really get excited or scared about anything, the reading experience is a bit flat too.
I think I might have given up on this book without finishing it if it hadn’t been for the fact that this is the second book in a trilogy the first instalment of which really enjoyed. I also hope that the third and final book will return to the standards of the first, and do find myself curious about how this story will end.
I should add that although I have these issues with the story, I have no problems with the language in which the story was told. The writing flows and the descriptions of creatures and landscapes evoke vivid pictures for me.
My conclusion has to be that the reading experience this book gave me was rather a mixed bag with enough positives in the mix to make me want to finish the story at some point.
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Sep 14, 2011 Maria rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fae, magic, vampires

Another good book by the collaboration between Carol Goodman and her husband Lee Slonimsky is “The Watchtower” the second book in the Black Swan Rising series. Although, I liked more the first one, I still think that this is a very good book.

It’s a very different urban fantasy book with great plot with mystery and excellent characters, both the main and the secondary.

The book is written with alternating chapters and we have the story of Garet who searches the path into the Summer Country AND the...more

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Dec 21, 2012 Evelyn Doyle rated it 1 of 5 stars

While I wouldn't class this as 'epic fantasy', it does share a characteristic of it: such importance is placed on introducing characters and creatures, there's little room for plot movement in only a few hundred pages. It seemed to me as if the authors didn't have much more to say than, "See how many creatures I know."

What plot movement there was seemed little more than a scavenger hunt. A frustrating scavenger hunt. Creature A says, 'Creature B has what you want.' Creature B says 'Creature C ha...more

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Jul 19, 2011 Jamie Piscitelli rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Once again the collaboration between Carol and Lee creates a wonderful story.

The Watchtower was a perfect blend of poetry, narrative, mystery and adventure. Garret and Will are wonderful characters and The Watchtower beautifully provides the reader with their background.

Picking up right where Black Swan Rising left off, The Watch tower is another page turner and I cannot wait for the third installment. For those of you who have read the first installment, you will find the reappearance of some o...more

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Jan 17, 2013 Gabriella rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: magic

The Watchtower is the second book in the Black Swan Rising trilogy.

Garet must travel to Paris and find the path to the Summer Country to find Will on his quest to cure himself of his vampirism. In alternating chapters we follow Gart on her seacrh for Will but we also learn Will Hughes's background and how he became to be a vampire.
After meetings with various strange and mythical beings Garet does indeed find her way to Will and the Summer Country only for the pair to find that they still have to...more

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Oct 01, 2011 Sharon Goodwin rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Having read and enjoyed Black Swan Rising I blogged The Watchtower on my Wishlist. Sarah Broadhurst from Sarah’s Book Reviews http://sbroadhurstreviews.blogspot.com/ offered me to read her copy. This is my guest post on her blog.

Garet’s quest to find Will and find out more about herself starts in Paris. In Black Swan Rising Garet received what she thought was a sign which led her there. We are told again why she is waiting.

Garet finds her artistic inspiration and uses Horatio Durant’s workshop a...more Having read and enjoyed Black Swan Rising I blogged The Watchtower on my Wishlist. Sarah Broadhurst from Sarah’s Book Reviews http://sbroadhurstreviews.blogspot.com/ offered me to read her copy. This is my guest post on her blog.

Garet’s quest to find Will and find out more about herself starts in Paris. In Black Swan Rising Garet received what she thought was a sign which led her there. We are told again why she is waiting.

Garet finds her artistic inspiration and uses Horatio Durant’s workshop and tools to create her jewellery piece in which she incorporates the symbol of the Watchtower. Horatio was a friend to her late parents.

She doubts the obscure sign she received to follow Will but on the edge of giving up, she receives the sign that she is on the right path.

The following chapter tells us the story of Will (400 years ago) as he leaves his ancestral estate (Swan Hall) and falls in love with Marguerite. Marguerite is Garet’s ancestor.

What follows are alternating chapters. Garet’s written in the first person and is her quest to find Will in the Summer Country. Will’s chapters in the third person and his quest to become immortal. At one point the past and present overlap.

There are allusions to the important points in Black Swan Rising, very cleverly built in as we journey along on their quest. If you haven’t read the first, you are able to start reading The Watchtower and it still makes sense.

We find out a bit more about why The Watchtowers came into existence and why Marguerites’s descendents have the role they do. We also find out the connection of the alchemist John Dee.

Parts of the story are slow going but I found enough to hold my interest and keep me reading. I love fairy tales/mythical aspects. Any book that has fey and dryads in will pull me in. This was more about these mythical beings and much less about vampires. The alternating chapters as we follow the two different timelines also add interest and negate the slowness. The second book to me was more about Will’s story than Garet’s. I did enjoy ‘living’ in Elizabethan times as I accompanied Will during his late teens and after he had met Marguerite, despite their telling slowing the story down.

The ending – I did see it coming – but the cliffhanger leaves you with questions you want to have the answers to! I will be interested in finding out where the story will be taken in the final book in this trilogy. At the ending of Black Swan Rising I thought it would be quite a quest for Garet to find Will in the Summer Country (probably why I felt a little disappointed), at the ending of The Watchtower I really can’t see enough to fill the pages of a third book and I’m hoping it will hold more than the fight between evil (Marduk) and light (Garet and her Watchtower role).

I am rating The Watchtower as a two fairy read.
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Aug 02, 2011 Sarah rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: arc-or-review-copy, contemporary, fantasy, read-in-2011

Overall, I was actually surprised by how much I enjoyed The Watchtower. While it did have its problems, compared to about 90% of the other urban fantasy books populating the shelves, this one stands apart. The world and history is fascinating. The characters are believable and if the plot does lag and the writing between Garet and Will’s sections does seem rather unbalanced with quality, I’m sure readers following this series won’t mind. The story is solid, the plot is interesting and, overall,...more

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Oct 28, 2012 Madelyn Waychoff rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I was sorely disappointed with this book, I really enjoyed the first book in the series but this book was really tough to get through, I had to force myself to finish it. The characters have no substance, especially Will who comes off as a self-centered, arrogant, simpering fool, which I understand was the point in some sense. But there was absolutely nothing redeeming about him, nothing that made me want to find out his story, I was just bored. The setting was well done, and the parts with Gare...more

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Oct 05, 2011 Brian Fitzpatrick rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I really enjoyed the Shakespeare-inspired world of faeries in Black Swan Rising when I read it a year ago. The characters, story, and world of jewelry artist Garet James as she discovers her family's history with the faerie court. When I learned it was the first in a series, I was excited to see what was coming next from writers Carol Goodman (Arcadia Falls, The Night Villa) and her husband – poet and hedge fund manager Lee Slonimsky.

What I found with The Watchtower was an alternating series of...more

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Jun 06, 2012 Himesugar rated it 5 of 5 stars

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This is the second book in the Black Swan series. It, like the first is brilliant. The story continues with Garet now on her journey to find Will. It's filled with various interesting characters, all of which are sturdy, making you want to learn about them. All the characters adding to the story, making it richer. Garet, with the help of these characters progresses in her search for Will and finds out more about herself and him. Like the first in the ser...more

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Nov 22, 2012 Kaylene rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

As the second book of the black swan trilogy, I held high hopes for the storyline remaining in tact and being built upon more. What had happened was a sub standard storyline and two characters stories entwining to create the final mystery at the end of the novel.

Unfortunately I could not get into this book following two stories and so started another book instead, coming back after I finished that book to find out the end of the story.

It was confusing to jump without prior warning from one st...more

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Oct 04, 2012 Jenny Delandro rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Garet is quickly learning that the world in which she lives is not at all what she thought it was.... there are more fairy types living in plain sight than she ever imagined.... and all of them seem to be more than willing to help her find her way to Summer Land and she never seems suspicious at all!!!

This book is structured around The two main characters, Garet and Will.. and instead of giving us a rounded story we are given strange disjointed alternate chapters which I found so hard to follow,...more

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Jun 26, 2012 Michelle rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy

(3.5 stars) This is the second book in the Black Swan Rising series. Garet has been waiting for a sign from Will Hughes to join him in his quest to get to the Summer Country in hopes of becoming mortal again. She has her doubts after he stole the box from her, but when she does get a signal from him, she is off to France to see if she can make her own way into the Summer Country. The story is told in parallel between Garet's journey and Will own past journey when he sought immortality to be with...more

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Mar 06, 2012 Ithlilian rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: urban-fantasy

The Watchtower was no where near as good as the original book in the series. It lacks the beautiful descriptions and whimsical feel of the first, but it is more than that. The characters don't progress much really, and this boils down to simply a fest quest. Half of the story is the main female character chasing down her love interest, the other half is the love interest living through his past. We run into squid lady, and the man encased in the tree roots, weird character after weird character,...more

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Aug 12, 2011 Jennifer rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: aadl, sff

I just finished this book this morning on the bus, and I am still speechless about the ending, but I won't spoil it. The Watchtower continues the saga (and it feels like an old fashioned saga) of Garet, the New York jewelry designer, and her vampire, Will. Will has loved the women of Garet's family for generations, beginning with Marguerite, the eponymous Watchtower. She was immortal and fell in love with the mortal, Will. [After a short affair with "the poet," from Stratford-upon-Avon.] Their l...more

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Feb 21, 2013 Sarabeth rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Purchased by me.
3 stars, really about 2.75
I did not enjoy this book nearly as much as "Black Swan Rising." While Garet's story was consistent and meeting so many different Fae was a wonderful element I could not get over the portrayal of Will as a young man. For me it was completely unbelieveable. And it soured the story for me. But because of Garet and the other Fae, I loved Octavia, I will eventually get around to reading "the Shape Stealer," the last book in the triology. But it won't be at t...more

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Nov 20, 2011 Kate rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Again I wish I could give half stars as I'd rate this book 2.5. There are parts I really skimmed over. Though I cannot really say which parts without giving away a major point in the book. I like the main characters and I care about what happens to them but sometimes I just shake my head at how dumb Garet acts. Since the last 50 pages were wonderful and it ended on a clif hanger I'll probably buy the next book in the series if/when its released.

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Sep 14, 2011 Kristen rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy

It took me forever to finish one. I found the parts of Will's backstory to be really boring, so that was one cause of struggle. The other was me being distracted by wedding stuff. :)

I enjoyed the first book much more. As soon as a certain...event happened, I knew exactly what was going to happen, and that there'd most definitely be a third book. Which I'm just kinda eh about at this point.

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Oct 22, 2011 Becky rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Watchtower continues the tale begun in Black Swan Rising. Garet travels to France after receiving a message from Will. In order to follow him into Summer Country, she'll have to gain the favor of multiple local fey.

I loved the additional characters and their stories, but wasn't so much a fan of Will's alternating story line.

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Jan 27, 2013 Sarah Chantler rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A fantasy book with Vampires/Wood Nymphs/tree men and Faerie folk. Very disappointed with this book, the 1st half of this book read like the Author was trying to put in as many Mythical creatures as possible, all mixed with a rather lame love story and set with vaguely historical background. 2nd half improved slightly. My overall opinion is don't bother!

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Oct 06, 2011 Rhiannon Anderson rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I nearly fell asleep reading this book

We travel back in time(with Will) and then to present 9With Garet) and then back and then present and the back....you get the drift
THEN you get present,BUT travelling back

Confused?...add in a whining/jealous Garet and you have a storyline!

Lots of details and LOADS of following people around time zones
I preferred the first book

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Oct 11, 2011 Lori Paximadis rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I didn't like this one nearly as much as Black Swan Rising. Not enough *there* there to explain the attraction between Will and Garet (or even younger Will and Marguerite). And just as the introduction of time travel spells doom for any TV series I like, it doesn't do books any favors, either. I want so much to care about these characters and their stories, but I'm just not drawn in.

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Aug 19, 2011 Claire rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy-paranormal

i found it difficult to getinto this book, it wasn't the story so much but the way it was presented. we left our to main characters travelling on different paths and in this book we follow Garet in modern day france and will back in Shakesperean England. Each chapter changes character and i found that i was just gettin into that story when we changed chapters and changed stories. the book didn't flow! towards the end of the book the two stores started to collide and the the book flowed much bett...more

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Feb 14, 2012 Nancy rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The first book was decent, but this one is just ugh. Overblown, over dramatic, romantic smushy, gag me, sickness. All the characters did was alternate between mooning over each other and wallowing in their own misery for 400 pages. Get a life. And a story. Blech. Not interested in reading book 3 to see how it all ends.

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Mar 29, 2012 Krista Mercer added it · review of another edition

Shelves: did-not-finish, urban-fantasy

Despite my reservations with the first novel in this series, I was still intrigued enough to give this sequel a try. Bad choice. I couldn't make it past the first chapter, when the heroine descended into the depths of a tree. Yes, a tree.

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