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Vaelandrian Goddesses #2
The Eternal Autumn
Time has frozen. The leaves of autumn refuse to fall, frost clings to the ground, and the last harvest took place more than a year ago. Vaelandria is gripped by the Eternal Autumn, and some say it is the end of days. Starvation and madness spread across the countryside even as corpses climb from their graves, goblins raze villages, witches fly through the darkest nights, and ghosts rise to haunt the living.
As many have come to believe the child of three Goddesses is the source of the Eternal Autumn, Calista and Harper struggle to protect their fated daughter from unseen enemies. They flee to the Valley of the Hallowed Harvest where the Eternal Autumn is celebrated as a holy sign only to find the citizens of the valley are every bit as dangerous as those they thought to escape.
In the war torn north, the Dagger Falls Company is hired to discover the source of the Eternal Autumn and hopefully end it. Led by Sofea, the former North Wind Valkyrie, the company takes to the road in hopes of gleaning answers from the Thief Queen of Griffon’s Rock, the mystical Ogre of the orchards, and a long-dead dragon. Unlikely aid for their impossible task comes from an escaped Cyclops bear, a flirtatious Brownie bandit, and a sarcastic Witch of the Nightshade Coven.
Amid the insanity sown by the Eternal Autumn, assassins skulk through the night, mask-wearing cultists roam the forests, and divine powers tear at the very fabric of reality. While the world decays under the sinister beauty of the Eternal Autumn, Calista and Harper slowly unravel the mystery to find frozen time is a harbinger of something far worse.
As many have come to believe the child of three Goddesses is the source of the Eternal Autumn, Calista and Harper struggle to protect their fated daughter from unseen enemies. They flee to the Valley of the Hallowed Harvest where the Eternal Autumn is celebrated as a holy sign only to find the citizens of the valley are every bit as dangerous as those they thought to escape.
In the war torn north, the Dagger Falls Company is hired to discover the source of the Eternal Autumn and hopefully end it. Led by Sofea, the former North Wind Valkyrie, the company takes to the road in hopes of gleaning answers from the Thief Queen of Griffon’s Rock, the mystical Ogre of the orchards, and a long-dead dragon. Unlikely aid for their impossible task comes from an escaped Cyclops bear, a flirtatious Brownie bandit, and a sarcastic Witch of the Nightshade Coven.
Amid the insanity sown by the Eternal Autumn, assassins skulk through the night, mask-wearing cultists roam the forests, and divine powers tear at the very fabric of reality. While the world decays under the sinister beauty of the Eternal Autumn, Calista and Harper slowly unravel the mystery to find frozen time is a harbinger of something far worse.
407 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 27, 2013
About the author
Cassandra Duffy
15 books81 followersCassandra Duffy spent most of her childhood being precocious, which stopped being entertaining or impressive when she grew into an adult, at which point she had to start being precious. After being an outcast child prodigy it was no surprise when she graduated from one of the many fine University of California schools a year early to follow her girlfriend in a cross country move.
She writes a free-lance sex advice column found in various lesbian magazines and dating websites. Her short story collections and novels can be found on her website.
Two of her greatest prides are being a true California girl and author of some truly naughty things. She is a dutiful partially-Asian daughter who is beloved by her fairly traditional Korean father who thinks having a gay daughter is just fine as long as she keeps playing coed flag football. She is a stereotypical younger sister, and an adoring aunt of a hilarious little boy. Being a modern techno-freak, gamer-girl, she spent most of her childhood dreaming of being a video game designer, but changed her mind and brought her dreams of world building and story-weaving to writing unique romance novels.
Cassandra is a gleefully monogamous girlfriend to an earthbound goddess who was once her high school bully, but has done a magnificent job of making up for all the school girl nastiness ever since. When she isn't being an avid fang girl (vampire fan girl) or tormenting people in online gaming, she lives and writes in Winter Park, Florida with her partner and soul mate Nichole and their two cats: Dragon and Josephine.
She writes a free-lance sex advice column found in various lesbian magazines and dating websites. Her short story collections and novels can be found on her website.
Two of her greatest prides are being a true California girl and author of some truly naughty things. She is a dutiful partially-Asian daughter who is beloved by her fairly traditional Korean father who thinks having a gay daughter is just fine as long as she keeps playing coed flag football. She is a stereotypical younger sister, and an adoring aunt of a hilarious little boy. Being a modern techno-freak, gamer-girl, she spent most of her childhood dreaming of being a video game designer, but changed her mind and brought her dreams of world building and story-weaving to writing unique romance novels.
Cassandra is a gleefully monogamous girlfriend to an earthbound goddess who was once her high school bully, but has done a magnificent job of making up for all the school girl nastiness ever since. When she isn't being an avid fang girl (vampire fan girl) or tormenting people in online gaming, she lives and writes in Winter Park, Florida with her partner and soul mate Nichole and their two cats: Dragon and Josephine.
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February 9, 2017
I loved this second book in the series. Any reservations I had with the first book were not found here as this was just the right balance of character development, intimacy, and action.
Harper and Calista are past the honeymoon phase of their relationship with the story taking place two years after "Divine Touched". Most books focus on the early stages of a relationship so we get a rare glimpse into a realistic depiction of two very different people navigating their conflicts and still being committed to each other.
The author also managed to capture a loving yet truthful and unidealized view of pregnancy and motherhood through Calista since, as a formerly fit and unrivaled assassin, she is not the paragon of maternal instinct. On a side note, I loved the mention of Calista's breastfeeding of her daughter, Bianca, and Calista's feelings about it as the need for it changes. I've certainly never read that in a book before and, again, it was realistic.
The motherhood and relationship developments all occur while Calista and Harper are continuously hunted by assassins and moving through a world in economic turmoil. Their aim is to figure out the mystery behind a stuck season and the reason themselves and their daughter are on every assassin's hit list.
The story is told through alternating chapters of Calista or Harper's point of view with Sofea, the young Valkyrie introduced in "Divine Touched". At first I was a little shaken by this because I wanted to stay with Harper or Calista but Sofea and her adventures were so well executed that the oscillation was equally satisfying.
Along with Sofea we are introduced to two new characters, Wendy, an evil, deceptive, curmudgeon of a young witch and River, an upbeat but courageous, kick-ass Brownie. The three form an unlikely love triangle and their interactions and eventful journey to their destination are written in a perfectly entertaining and delightful way.
In the midst of this fantasy adventure, Duffy also masterfully sprinkles humor and dialogue throughout the book. Examples are behind the spoiler tag:
Overall, this was a thoroughly impressive, entertaining and great read. Recommend.
Harper and Calista are past the honeymoon phase of their relationship with the story taking place two years after "Divine Touched". Most books focus on the early stages of a relationship so we get a rare glimpse into a realistic depiction of two very different people navigating their conflicts and still being committed to each other.
The author also managed to capture a loving yet truthful and unidealized view of pregnancy and motherhood through Calista since, as a formerly fit and unrivaled assassin, she is not the paragon of maternal instinct. On a side note, I loved the mention of Calista's breastfeeding of her daughter, Bianca, and Calista's feelings about it as the need for it changes. I've certainly never read that in a book before and, again, it was realistic.
The motherhood and relationship developments all occur while Calista and Harper are continuously hunted by assassins and moving through a world in economic turmoil. Their aim is to figure out the mystery behind a stuck season and the reason themselves and their daughter are on every assassin's hit list.
The story is told through alternating chapters of Calista or Harper's point of view with Sofea, the young Valkyrie introduced in "Divine Touched". At first I was a little shaken by this because I wanted to stay with Harper or Calista but Sofea and her adventures were so well executed that the oscillation was equally satisfying.
Along with Sofea we are introduced to two new characters, Wendy, an evil, deceptive, curmudgeon of a young witch and River, an upbeat but courageous, kick-ass Brownie. The three form an unlikely love triangle and their interactions and eventful journey to their destination are written in a perfectly entertaining and delightful way.
In the midst of this fantasy adventure, Duffy also masterfully sprinkles humor and dialogue throughout the book. Examples are behind the spoiler tag:
Overall, this was a thoroughly impressive, entertaining and great read. Recommend.
January 26, 2015
In this second book, the seasons have ground to a halt, stuck in a never changing autumn. Hunger and want have driven people to desperation. And they find a perfect scapegoat in the strange baby born to two women--Bianca. Harper and Calista embark on a quest to bring the baby to safety. Meanwhile the other members of their adventure company embark on their own quest to solve the riddle with the help of long dead dragons.
I love the development of Harper and Calista's relationship. Like any other newlywed couple, when the blinders of new love come off, the real person behind the idealized image can be quite jarring. In this case it is rather extreme since one of them is after all, a liar/thief/assassin. How the author works this typical marital kink and other post-pregnancy issues seamlessly into the adventure narrative makes this book so much more relatable to non-‘fantasy geeks’. At the same time, it does not lack for detail, magic and epic quests that characterize the fantasy genre.
The lighter parts of the book have a campy vibe to it, making for an interesting contrast to all the death and destruction happening all around. The same style is also evident in the author’s Raven series.
We get to meet more interesting characters. Young, idealistic Sofea is still trying to find her way in the aftermath of the pyrrhic winter war that took the lives of most of her unit. She has joined up with Harper’s company of adventurers, ostensibly for lack of better options, though I think she’s just totally infatuated with Harper. ;) Wendy, their replacement witch, is another new member. Barely out of her teens, she nevertheless carries the collective knowledge of several witches before her. Like Calista in book 1, she is the mystery character in book 2. Her uncertain loyalties and secret agenda make her an intriguing figure. And then there is River, the resident tinkerbell.
Like Frank, Wendy is also my favorite character. Her surliness and snark play off well against the earnest but oblivious and oft-confused Sofea. Her verbal tussles with Sofea are the fantasy equivalent of YA teen spats.
There is a bizarre love triangle, which totally confuses Sofea. What exactly does she want in life? Is she even in love? Do the two other ladies even want her when their quest is over? And why does she feel so hot and tingly in the company of Harper still? Typical teen lesfic stuff. Except that she needs to figure out these things and more while lugging around dragon bones on a dire bear and lopping off undead heads.
A rich and fun romp this adventure has been so far. But something big and ominous happens at the end of this book. Stuff that makes epic adventure series feel...epic. We’re all awaiting the conclusion(?) with bated breath. Ms. Duffy?
4.75 stars
I love the development of Harper and Calista's relationship. Like any other newlywed couple, when the blinders of new love come off, the real person behind the idealized image can be quite jarring. In this case it is rather extreme since one of them is after all, a liar/thief/assassin. How the author works this typical marital kink and other post-pregnancy issues seamlessly into the adventure narrative makes this book so much more relatable to non-‘fantasy geeks’. At the same time, it does not lack for detail, magic and epic quests that characterize the fantasy genre.
The lighter parts of the book have a campy vibe to it, making for an interesting contrast to all the death and destruction happening all around. The same style is also evident in the author’s Raven series.
We get to meet more interesting characters. Young, idealistic Sofea is still trying to find her way in the aftermath of the pyrrhic winter war that took the lives of most of her unit. She has joined up with Harper’s company of adventurers, ostensibly for lack of better options, though I think she’s just totally infatuated with Harper. ;) Wendy, their replacement witch, is another new member. Barely out of her teens, she nevertheless carries the collective knowledge of several witches before her. Like Calista in book 1, she is the mystery character in book 2. Her uncertain loyalties and secret agenda make her an intriguing figure. And then there is River, the resident tinkerbell.
Like Frank, Wendy is also my favorite character. Her surliness and snark play off well against the earnest but oblivious and oft-confused Sofea. Her verbal tussles with Sofea are the fantasy equivalent of YA teen spats.
There is a bizarre love triangle, which totally confuses Sofea. What exactly does she want in life? Is she even in love? Do the two other ladies even want her when their quest is over? And why does she feel so hot and tingly in the company of Harper still? Typical teen lesfic stuff. Except that she needs to figure out these things and more while lugging around dragon bones on a dire bear and lopping off undead heads.
A rich and fun romp this adventure has been so far. But something big and ominous happens at the end of this book. Stuff that makes epic adventure series feel...epic. We’re all awaiting the conclusion(?) with bated breath. Ms. Duffy?
4.75 stars
February 19, 2014
I finished this book in December and this review is shamefully late. That can partly be blamed on alternating bouts of laziness and being very busy, but a large part is that I was so impressed by this book that I barely knew where to start, combined with the desire to write a review that does it the proper justice it deserves. And boy does it deserve it. Cassandra Duffy is entering rarified air for me and is now right there in the company of my favorite authors.
She's just good. Her imagination is fantastic and her voice is now incredibly confident. Her books are fun, lets state that from the start, but more and more there is a depth of emotion and inteligence. Concepts of womanhood, motherhood and feminism flow throughout Eternal Autumn making the story fuller in your mind and heart and that's what makes me so impressed. Because you can focus solely on the surface if you want and it's an engaging, darkly funny and sexy adventure with strong, lesbian heroines and that by itself is a must read as far as I'm concerned. But when you add in the depth and layers it becomes one of the best fantasy books I've read in several years.
The story follows two separate groups this time, Harper and Calista trying to find a safe home for their daughter on the one hand and Sofea and her new companions trying desperately to catch up to them on the other. Both groups journeys have their own tone and emotional arc. Sofea's start out with more fun before getting darker and more desperate as her and her companion's inexperience catches up to them. Harper and calista travels have a gloomy pall over them from the start that persists until they can finally work through the emotions that pull them in different directions and threaten to fracture their unique, beautiful family.
I really liked Sofea coming into her own as a warrior. Her travels brought her to several strange places and saw her in over her head a lot. But she never lost her fight. More interesting and important to me were the Harper and Calista parts. I am very glad they had issues to deal with. At the end of Divine Touched it felt like Harper was hiding from some painful truths about who Calista was as a person and she needed to face them for their relationship to have any chance of success. At the same time, it's not all on Harper. Calista was not presented as infalible. And really, you just generally have to root for Harper more seeing as how she's not a murdering assassin. Calista though, had a powerful internal journey of trying to find out if she can accept her new life as a wife and mother. It's a place she never planned to be and the answer to whether she can make it work or not is very much up in the air.
Things build and tension grows steadily, making this an incredibly tense story for most of it's running. When the tide turns though, a powerful elation came over me. All the credit to Duffy for her excellent pacing. This is a longer than average book, but it never once dragged for me. I only wanted it to continue on. And that's as high a praise as a book can get, isn't it?
The ending leaves things in an unexpected place. A place that made me ache to know what happens next. It is a middle book and so naturally things will end without the resolution we want. Still it was very a very interesting place to leave things with a mixture of equal parts hope and longing.
I have a lot of dissatisfaction with how authors are categorised these days. And it's especially galling when a writer is as talented as Duffy is. Publishers and mainstream critics think she's niche. A "lesbian" author if you will. And that somehow makes her books less legitimate and sorted away from other high fantasy and science fiction. But then is George R.R. Martin a "hetero" author? Give me a break. Duffy is a great, imaginative writer period. Her life experiences pull her a certain direction and her heroines happen to be lesbians, but that doesn't make her books any less profound or well written. I want to see her shelved beside writers like Martin and Lois McMaster Bujold someday. She deserves all the success in the world.
So to sum up, if you're a fan of inteligent, exciting, feminist and downright sexy fantasy you need to check this out. The battles are intense. The humor made me laugh all the way through. And the relationships were moving and believable. I loved my time in Duffy's world and can't wait to go back. I'm not sure if the next book will be the last with these characters, but I really, really hope it won't be the last in this wonderful fantasy setting. I think it's ripe for more stories with as many strong, interesting women as Duffy can create.
She's just good. Her imagination is fantastic and her voice is now incredibly confident. Her books are fun, lets state that from the start, but more and more there is a depth of emotion and inteligence. Concepts of womanhood, motherhood and feminism flow throughout Eternal Autumn making the story fuller in your mind and heart and that's what makes me so impressed. Because you can focus solely on the surface if you want and it's an engaging, darkly funny and sexy adventure with strong, lesbian heroines and that by itself is a must read as far as I'm concerned. But when you add in the depth and layers it becomes one of the best fantasy books I've read in several years.
The story follows two separate groups this time, Harper and Calista trying to find a safe home for their daughter on the one hand and Sofea and her new companions trying desperately to catch up to them on the other. Both groups journeys have their own tone and emotional arc. Sofea's start out with more fun before getting darker and more desperate as her and her companion's inexperience catches up to them. Harper and calista travels have a gloomy pall over them from the start that persists until they can finally work through the emotions that pull them in different directions and threaten to fracture their unique, beautiful family.
I really liked Sofea coming into her own as a warrior. Her travels brought her to several strange places and saw her in over her head a lot. But she never lost her fight. More interesting and important to me were the Harper and Calista parts. I am very glad they had issues to deal with. At the end of Divine Touched it felt like Harper was hiding from some painful truths about who Calista was as a person and she needed to face them for their relationship to have any chance of success. At the same time, it's not all on Harper. Calista was not presented as infalible. And really, you just generally have to root for Harper more seeing as how she's not a murdering assassin. Calista though, had a powerful internal journey of trying to find out if she can accept her new life as a wife and mother. It's a place she never planned to be and the answer to whether she can make it work or not is very much up in the air.
Things build and tension grows steadily, making this an incredibly tense story for most of it's running. When the tide turns though, a powerful elation came over me. All the credit to Duffy for her excellent pacing. This is a longer than average book, but it never once dragged for me. I only wanted it to continue on. And that's as high a praise as a book can get, isn't it?
The ending leaves things in an unexpected place. A place that made me ache to know what happens next. It is a middle book and so naturally things will end without the resolution we want. Still it was very a very interesting place to leave things with a mixture of equal parts hope and longing.
I have a lot of dissatisfaction with how authors are categorised these days. And it's especially galling when a writer is as talented as Duffy is. Publishers and mainstream critics think she's niche. A "lesbian" author if you will. And that somehow makes her books less legitimate and sorted away from other high fantasy and science fiction. But then is George R.R. Martin a "hetero" author? Give me a break. Duffy is a great, imaginative writer period. Her life experiences pull her a certain direction and her heroines happen to be lesbians, but that doesn't make her books any less profound or well written. I want to see her shelved beside writers like Martin and Lois McMaster Bujold someday. She deserves all the success in the world.
So to sum up, if you're a fan of inteligent, exciting, feminist and downright sexy fantasy you need to check this out. The battles are intense. The humor made me laugh all the way through. And the relationships were moving and believable. I loved my time in Duffy's world and can't wait to go back. I'm not sure if the next book will be the last with these characters, but I really, really hope it won't be the last in this wonderful fantasy setting. I think it's ripe for more stories with as many strong, interesting women as Duffy can create.
November 27, 2013
Reading anything by Cassandra Duffy is such a treat. A get the warm fuzzies every time I sit down with one of her books. There's none of those restless moments -- no skimming -- where I have to stop and wonder where I am, or where this is going, or who the heck these people are. That's because Cassandra writes with such conviction and purpose, I know I'm just going to surrender the reins and sit back and let her do all the driving and heavy lifting. Even in these fantastic settings, her characters are real, they matter, and the world they inhabit has substance and consequence.
And her books are fun!
I said it in my review of the last book, Divine Touched, and it remains true with this one: I'm in awe of her ability to balance humour with real drama and action -- and romance (and thank goodness for that). I know this is not easy. While I'm forever smiling, often snickering while reading, the book never becomes silly or slapstick. It's the opposite. It becomes even more real.
More people need to discover the amazing talent that is Cassandra Duffy. If you haven't already read Divine Touched, do yourself a favour, and do so now.
And her books are fun!
I said it in my review of the last book, Divine Touched, and it remains true with this one: I'm in awe of her ability to balance humour with real drama and action -- and romance (and thank goodness for that). I know this is not easy. While I'm forever smiling, often snickering while reading, the book never becomes silly or slapstick. It's the opposite. It becomes even more real.
More people need to discover the amazing talent that is Cassandra Duffy. If you haven't already read Divine Touched, do yourself a favour, and do so now.
December 6, 2014
The Eternal Autumn takes place two years after the Winter War but that epic struggle is now deemed an altercation of insignificant importance, as after Harper and Calista set a prophecy hundreds of years in the making in motion, the world has gone slightly mad, for time has stopped, inconveniently at the end of autumn.
The tone of the story is immediately set in the prologue, where we find Calista lamenting her state of pregnancy; what it has done for her body and she can't wait to get the blasted daughter of three godesses out of her. She is utterly pissed-off and her day doesn't get better when out of every nook and cranny assassins come after her.
With the world-building firmly set in Divine Touched, Ms. Duffy focusses more on the characters, with a healthy dose of violence thrown in. And at times, it's hilariously funny to read.
All our favorite characters are back (minus Ezra of course) and a few new ones as well. The chapters alternate between the struggles of Harper, Calista, and Athol (who somehow has taken up baby-sitting duties for Bianca, the fated child) as they try to find a safe place when everyone starts blaming them for the unusual suspension of time, and the Daggerfall Company that is sent out to seek out the origins of The Eternal Autumn.
The journey of Sofea, the new addition Wendy the Witch and a tag-along Brownie River is in my opinion the most interesting one. And it's not the never-ending danger they find themselves in, but the complex interactions between Sofea and Wendy, and later on River. Sofea, on the surface, seems a simple character. All she wants to be is a great raider, but she finds those dreams warring within herself with feelings of love, lost friends, uncertantity, even some PTSD (she's deadly afraid of spiders). She doesn't know where to begin sorting out these feelings and Wendy isn't really helping with that.
Speaking of Wendy, I absolutely adored her. Sarcastic to the bone, with her own agenda and wielding a very unsavory kind of magic like it's the most natural thing in the world. She doesn't talk much and when she does, all that comes out of her mouth are snide remarks, meanwhile tossing undead around without a blink of an eye. But she still finds the time to flirt with Sofea in the heat of a battle on a bridge with countless insane Goblins. That scene is one of the best in the book.
And everyone has internal battles. Harper, still not completely at ease with he wife's occupation. Calista, sometimes feeling utterly useless with a body that simply refuses to return to it's pre-pregancy state. Even Wizardly Willard has issues with his age and determined to be the greatest sorcerer ever.
Amidst all these trial and tribulations, there are many laugh out loud moments.
And that ending.... well, that reward had better been good. I simply can't wait how that is resolved and what role Bianca is going to play.
Highly recommended.
The tone of the story is immediately set in the prologue, where we find Calista lamenting her state of pregnancy; what it has done for her body and she can't wait to get the blasted daughter of three godesses out of her. She is utterly pissed-off and her day doesn't get better when out of every nook and cranny assassins come after her.
With the world-building firmly set in Divine Touched, Ms. Duffy focusses more on the characters, with a healthy dose of violence thrown in. And at times, it's hilariously funny to read.
All our favorite characters are back (minus Ezra of course) and a few new ones as well. The chapters alternate between the struggles of Harper, Calista, and Athol (who somehow has taken up baby-sitting duties for Bianca, the fated child) as they try to find a safe place when everyone starts blaming them for the unusual suspension of time, and the Daggerfall Company that is sent out to seek out the origins of The Eternal Autumn.
The journey of Sofea, the new addition Wendy the Witch and a tag-along Brownie River is in my opinion the most interesting one. And it's not the never-ending danger they find themselves in, but the complex interactions between Sofea and Wendy, and later on River. Sofea, on the surface, seems a simple character. All she wants to be is a great raider, but she finds those dreams warring within herself with feelings of love, lost friends, uncertantity, even some PTSD (she's deadly afraid of spiders). She doesn't know where to begin sorting out these feelings and Wendy isn't really helping with that.
Speaking of Wendy, I absolutely adored her. Sarcastic to the bone, with her own agenda and wielding a very unsavory kind of magic like it's the most natural thing in the world. She doesn't talk much and when she does, all that comes out of her mouth are snide remarks, meanwhile tossing undead around without a blink of an eye. But she still finds the time to flirt with Sofea in the heat of a battle on a bridge with countless insane Goblins. That scene is one of the best in the book.
And everyone has internal battles. Harper, still not completely at ease with he wife's occupation. Calista, sometimes feeling utterly useless with a body that simply refuses to return to it's pre-pregancy state. Even Wizardly Willard has issues with his age and determined to be the greatest sorcerer ever.
Amidst all these trial and tribulations, there are many laugh out loud moments.
And that ending.... well, that reward had better been good. I simply can't wait how that is resolved and what role Bianca is going to play.
Highly recommended.
February 21, 2023
I liked two things about this book: Calista and the ending. She's one of my favourite characters ever, she's so strong, cunning, fierce and dedicated to those she loves and it's such a pity that the rest of the characters were either unremarkable or downright unlikable. The worldbuilding was entertaining if sometimes deeply absurd, but the plot was really confusing for almost the entire book. I like being surprised by the ending of a book, but not because I literally had no idea what was happening for the first 80%. The ending was the best part because things were finally explained and because of Calista's choice. Though I might have preferred it if the ending wasn't quite so open. I would have liked to know what happened next; not every single detail, but some things. So, if there's ever another book that continues this series, I guess I'll read it.
September 6, 2021
So i read this, 4 years after it came out. I knew i would get into something from wich i would never know the end of, but the story being so greatly wrote, the characters being so well wrote, genuine and lovable i just could not hold the stream of tears (HyperEmotive is my surname).
The story (in its happier and sadder moment -- the feels --) is brought by a very good writing and pacing, bringing suspense through the pov changes without ever making you want to skip the chapter. (Somethings i felt in books such as eragon -- ftiou -- or other books from my teens).
And it is with great sadness that i put down this book after such an emotionnal ride.
(Yes this is not a review as much as a comment but it needed to get out somewhere)
The story (in its happier and sadder moment -- the feels --) is brought by a very good writing and pacing, bringing suspense through the pov changes without ever making you want to skip the chapter. (Somethings i felt in books such as eragon -- ftiou -- or other books from my teens).
And it is with great sadness that i put down this book after such an emotionnal ride.
(Yes this is not a review as much as a comment but it needed to get out somewhere)
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 23, 2014
This was a fantastic sequel, though I find myself sad that Calista will not get to see her daughter grow up.
How about a fun little vignette with Harper, Calista and infant Bianca? A little snippet of them all together sharing a rare quiet afternoon before the events of 'Eternal Autumn'. Pretty please?
How about a fun little vignette with Harper, Calista and infant Bianca? A little snippet of them all together sharing a rare quiet afternoon before the events of 'Eternal Autumn'. Pretty please?
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 24, 2016
Needed tighter editing, lots of homophone errors & poor comma usage. Characters and plot were fine, just needed to be shorter and more to the point.
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