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The Fey #4
The Resistance
A RUTHLESS WARRIOR. A BRILLIANT TACTICIAN. ONE FAMILY. OPPOSITE SIDES.
The Black King of the Fey, Rugad, has conquered Blue Isle’s capitol city. He thinks he’s conquered the Isle itself, even though he can’t find its royal family.
That family has retreated to the mountains. Exhausted but undefeated, they will regroup and attack again, this time with a new weapon, one that can change everything.
As both sides gear up for a second round of terrible warfare, the Shaman has a Vision filled with death, destruction—and the source of Fey might: The Place of Power.
The Black King of the Fey, Rugad, has conquered Blue Isle’s capitol city. He thinks he’s conquered the Isle itself, even though he can’t find its royal family.
That family has retreated to the mountains. Exhausted but undefeated, they will regroup and attack again, this time with a new weapon, one that can change everything.
As both sides gear up for a second round of terrible warfare, the Shaman has a Vision filled with death, destruction—and the source of Fey might: The Place of Power.
572 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 5, 1998
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About the author
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
1,367 books722 followersKristine Kathryn Rusch is an award-winning mystery, romance, science fiction, and fantasy writer. She has written many novels under various names, including Kristine Grayson for romance, and Kris Nelscott for mystery. Her novels have made the bestseller lists –even in London– and have been published in 14 countries and 13 different languages.
Her awards range from the Ellery Queen Readers Choice Award to the John W. Campbell Award. In the past year, she has been nominated for the Hugo, the Shamus, and the Anthony Award. She is the only person in the history of the science fiction field to have won a Hugo award for editing and a Hugo award for fiction.
In addition, she's written a number of nonfiction articles over the years, with her latest being the book "A Freelancer's Survival Guide".
She has also published as:
Sandy Schofield (collaborations with husband Dean Wesley Smith)
Kristine Grayson - romances
Kathryn Wesley (collaborations with husband Dean Wesley Smith)
Kris Nelscott - mysteries
Kris Rusch - historical fiction
Kris DeLake - romances
Her awards range from the Ellery Queen Readers Choice Award to the John W. Campbell Award. In the past year, she has been nominated for the Hugo, the Shamus, and the Anthony Award. She is the only person in the history of the science fiction field to have won a Hugo award for editing and a Hugo award for fiction.
In addition, she's written a number of nonfiction articles over the years, with her latest being the book "A Freelancer's Survival Guide".
She has also published as:
Sandy Schofield (collaborations with husband Dean Wesley Smith)
Kristine Grayson - romances
Kathryn Wesley (collaborations with husband Dean Wesley Smith)
Kris Nelscott - mysteries
Kris Rusch - historical fiction
Kris DeLake - romances
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June 11, 2014
In this installment of the series there were so many scenes involving Links I really just had a hard time with it. I was still engaging enough for me to want to finish the book, but I couldn't really relate. I guess I like my fantasy a little more grounded in reality. More to come on this series in my next review, of the 5th book.
May 4, 2021
The audiobook narrator is growing on me and so is the story.
3.5 stars rounded up.
3.5 stars rounded up.
September 9, 2019
there is a definite build up... I am looking forward to the next book
March 11, 2017
An intricate book preparing us for the end of the series.
Once again Ms. Rusch does a great job bringing things together. The themes of religion, power, war, leadership and so forth weave through this very intricate part of the story. Many threads of the story are given their due as they move toward what seems likely to be an explosive end of the story. Don't stop reading now if you have made it this far!
Once again Ms. Rusch does a great job bringing things together. The themes of religion, power, war, leadership and so forth weave through this very intricate part of the story. Many threads of the story are given their due as they move toward what seems likely to be an explosive end of the story. Don't stop reading now if you have made it this far!
May 26, 2014
I'm not sure if Rusch is getting tired of the series or if she was in a hurry to get this one out or what, but it 'technically' wasn't as good as the earlier Fey books. Lots of typos, including referring to one character by another character's name a few times (granted only 1 letter differentiates the names, but she named them after all).
Also at one point a character says "With great power.." and another says "...comes great responsibility. I know." Now in an urban fantasy novel this would have fit, but these books take place in a made-up world completely different from ours, so using a common phrase like that (whether you know it as something Voltaire said, or something Uncle Ben from Spiderman said) was really jarring and I would think an editor would've asked her to change it.
This is also the first of the Fey books that picks up immediately after than last one ended, which made it all feel a little slow. None of these books span much time, but when they were separated by years that felt ok. Like we were peering at significant moments in a culture's history. But somehow making one come right after the other, and having the events of an entire book take place over a few days, makes it feel kind of slow to me. Because while not a lot happens in any of these books, you do learn a lot of back story in the earlier ones.
This is also one of those books where a plotline just ends with no kind of closure so it can be picked up in the next book.
Another bit that felt odd is that Gift (that's a character's name) suddenly starts referring to another character as what he is rather than by name. In dialog he refers to him by name, but during his internal dialog he de-humanizes him (de-Feyizes him?) by referring to him as 'the Cap' over and over. Cap is short for Red Cap, a class of Fey who is looked down upon. Having Gift suddenly pick up the prejudices of the Fey was kind of disappointing and made me dislike him a lot.
Actually by the end of the book there are few characters that I actually like.
I'm going to try one more (and it again picks up right after the last one ended). but I may be about done with the series, which is a shame because I really enjoyed the earlier books.
Also at one point a character says "With great power.." and another says "...comes great responsibility. I know." Now in an urban fantasy novel this would have fit, but these books take place in a made-up world completely different from ours, so using a common phrase like that (whether you know it as something Voltaire said, or something Uncle Ben from Spiderman said) was really jarring and I would think an editor would've asked her to change it.
This is also the first of the Fey books that picks up immediately after than last one ended, which made it all feel a little slow. None of these books span much time, but when they were separated by years that felt ok. Like we were peering at significant moments in a culture's history. But somehow making one come right after the other, and having the events of an entire book take place over a few days, makes it feel kind of slow to me. Because while not a lot happens in any of these books, you do learn a lot of back story in the earlier ones.
This is also one of those books where a plotline just ends with no kind of closure so it can be picked up in the next book.
Another bit that felt odd is that Gift (that's a character's name) suddenly starts referring to another character as what he is rather than by name. In dialog he refers to him by name, but during his internal dialog he de-humanizes him (de-Feyizes him?) by referring to him as 'the Cap' over and over. Cap is short for Red Cap, a class of Fey who is looked down upon. Having Gift suddenly pick up the prejudices of the Fey was kind of disappointing and made me dislike him a lot.
Actually by the end of the book there are few characters that I actually like.
I'm going to try one more (and it again picks up right after the last one ended). but I may be about done with the series, which is a shame because I really enjoyed the earlier books.
August 12, 2010
Book 4, and I really should have done reviews for the first three books of the series, but I haven't so deal.
She-who-loaned-me-this-book said that this was her favorite of the series - and I can see why, there are lots of answers in this book to overarching questions of the series. Stuff hinted at is explained, greater mysteries uncovered, back story is told in innuendo.
But for me, I'm okay with the mysteries, and have generally felt stymied by the series (3 stars as good, and enjoyable, but not one I'm going to push to own, for others to own) because of the characterization.
The characters, especially the teens, seem filled with a lot of existential angst that colors their decisions. Okay fine, I'm willing to buy that. However, what I'm not willing to buy is the adults who carry the same angst, and the fact that no one ever seems rails on and on about it. Sorry, having been an angsty teen (HUSH, those of the peanut gallery who know me) I know you lust for the moment to rail against those who have done you wrong.
It slips in a bit at the end - but is definitely lacking, and with that lack of internal disclosure to the reader, I almost wanted the bad guys to win if only to shut the whiny little brats up.
But in the end, the books is good, even if I preferred book 3, which was a closing of sorts on the first arc and tales, while books 4 and 5 seem to be a smaller, two book arc focusing on the children rather than the parents.
She-who-loaned-me-this-book said that this was her favorite of the series - and I can see why, there are lots of answers in this book to overarching questions of the series. Stuff hinted at is explained, greater mysteries uncovered, back story is told in innuendo.
But for me, I'm okay with the mysteries, and have generally felt stymied by the series (3 stars as good, and enjoyable, but not one I'm going to push to own, for others to own) because of the characterization.
The characters, especially the teens, seem filled with a lot of existential angst that colors their decisions. Okay fine, I'm willing to buy that. However, what I'm not willing to buy is the adults who carry the same angst, and the fact that no one ever seems rails on and on about it. Sorry, having been an angsty teen (HUSH, those of the peanut gallery who know me) I know you lust for the moment to rail against those who have done you wrong.
It slips in a bit at the end - but is definitely lacking, and with that lack of internal disclosure to the reader, I almost wanted the bad guys to win if only to shut the whiny little brats up.
But in the end, the books is good, even if I preferred book 3, which was a closing of sorts on the first arc and tales, while books 4 and 5 seem to be a smaller, two book arc focusing on the children rather than the parents.
March 8, 2015
7,5/10
[Recensione cumulativa per i libri dal 2 al 5 della serie]
Il primo e l'ultimo libro della serie sono, IMO, i peggiori: mentre nel primo l'autrice si prende il suo bel tempo per delineare l'ambientazione e mettere le basi per l'avventura (e nel frattempo l'autore prende sonno), e nell'ultimo cade nella tentazione del deus ex machina paraculissimo che lascia con l'amaro in bocca, nei tre volumi centrali fa centro con una storia che non ha niente da invidiare - anzi, IMO ha qualcosa da insegnare - alle Cronache del Ghiaccio e del Fuoco: un intreccio di varie linee narrative che convergono nel finale, un cast eccezionale di personaggi sfaccettati e ben caratterizzati tanto che sarei in difficoltà ad indicare chi è il protagonista e chi l'antagonista, e colpi di scena e morti a volontà (una in particolare mi ha spezzato il cuore). Anche l'ambientazione fa la sua figura, con un sistema magico al contempo semplice e versatile che gioca un ruolo determinante in diverse svolte della trama.
[Recensione cumulativa per i libri dal 2 al 5 della serie]
Il primo e l'ultimo libro della serie sono, IMO, i peggiori: mentre nel primo l'autrice si prende il suo bel tempo per delineare l'ambientazione e mettere le basi per l'avventura (e nel frattempo l'autore prende sonno), e nell'ultimo cade nella tentazione del deus ex machina paraculissimo che lascia con l'amaro in bocca, nei tre volumi centrali fa centro con una storia che non ha niente da invidiare - anzi, IMO ha qualcosa da insegnare - alle Cronache del Ghiaccio e del Fuoco: un intreccio di varie linee narrative che convergono nel finale, un cast eccezionale di personaggi sfaccettati e ben caratterizzati tanto che sarei in difficoltà ad indicare chi è il protagonista e chi l'antagonista, e colpi di scena e morti a volontà (una in particolare mi ha spezzato il cuore). Anche l'ambientazione fa la sua figura, con un sistema magico al contempo semplice e versatile che gioca un ruolo determinante in diverse svolte della trama.
December 25, 2014
A bit slower than the previous ones, and not a lot happens, but things are still going forward in a satisfactory manner. I'm a little wary of the way the story may be going; It seems like it might be turning into more of a fate-of-the-world chosen-one type of thing, but hopefully that won't be the case.
I still really like the way both sides of things are shown, so we hear one character's plans and expectations and then the plans and expectations of an opposing character and then we see the confrontation play out in a way that is totally consistent with the setup.
I still really like the way both sides of things are shown, so we hear one character's plans and expectations and then the plans and expectations of an opposing character and then we see the confrontation play out in a way that is totally consistent with the setup.
January 7, 2015
Summary:Another really well thought out story of the fey and blue Isle. Full of the expected and the unexpected. We learn a lot more about the magic and blue Isle seems completely conquered.
Plotline: The story is moved inexorably on, side characters are killed in their droves the key characters keep learning and getting stronger
Premise: Much more is learnt about the magic, great stuff with even more to come
Writing: I really like KKR's style building up arguments, really descriptive.
Ending: All ready for the next book ...
Pace: Never a dull moment
Plotline: The story is moved inexorably on, side characters are killed in their droves the key characters keep learning and getting stronger
Premise: Much more is learnt about the magic, great stuff with even more to come
Writing: I really like KKR's style building up arguments, really descriptive.
Ending: All ready for the next book ...
Pace: Never a dull moment
March 7, 2015
Lots of plotty goodness in this one and some terrific developments but a fair bit of it feels like manoeuvring to get people in place for the final volume. Still great fun and heart-wrenching in places.
August 20, 2008
This is one of my all-time favorite fantasy series!
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August 23, 2008isbn,original
January 3, 2009
I don't know if it was worth what I paid for it since I had to buy it for around $20 in paperback as it was out of print, but I enjoyed it nevertheless.
January 5, 2018
20hrs:40mns
May 26, 2018
The most expensive book I've ever bought, as it wasn't in print, but it is a signed copy and it is a great story, which I love more than any other
March 27, 2012
předposlední díl kroniky Fey. Těším se jak to vlastně celé dopadne :-)
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