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This lady can write some story...and only a woman could have written it. For a moment I considered a lesser rating but I enjoyed it so much 5 Stars makes sense. So breathtaking in scope, twists and turns in plots within plots, plenty of action. My only complaint would be her battles and fights often take place out of sight or with little detail. While she is no Bernard Cornwell on the battlefield narration, she still comes up with some amazing characters. On to the third book.
Carey's complex and detailed world remains believable, and her characters as intriguing as they were in Kushiel's Dart. I especially enjoyed that her heroine remains rather humanly flawed, especially her facination for a woman who she knows is a traitor. It's not often that a book catches me unawares on a plot twist, but I did not expect the character deaths that occurred and was quite emotionally stricken when it happened. That happens so rarely that I consider it a testimate to Carey's charact
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The second of my most favorite trilogy.
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