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The Traveler Seraph must use all her cunning and ability as a Raven mage to track down an unimaginable force of destruction known as the Shadowed.
Centuries ago, the wizards of Colassae unleashed an unimaginable force of destruction: the Stalker. Only the sacrifice of their entire city could contain the menace they had wrought -- but even then, the Stalker was only imprisoned, and it can still find conduits for its evil power...
Seraph is among the last of the Travelers, those who strive to destroy the dark magic released by their ancestors' mistakes. Seraph tried to escape her people's duty and live a quiet life, until evil found her... and her family.
A cunning new force for darkness called the Shadowed stalks the land, feeding on death, destruction, and the sleeping Stalker's power. He plans to wake the Stalker, wreaking untold havoc, but he needs those who bear the Travelers' magic to release the dark god... and he has his sights set on Seraph and her family.
Now Seraph must use all her cunning and ability as a Raven mage to track down the Shadowed and strike against him before it is too late...
Centuries ago, the wizards of Colassae unleashed an unimaginable force of destruction: the Stalker. Only the sacrifice of their entire city could contain the menace they had wrought -- but even then, the Stalker was only imprisoned, and it can still find conduits for its evil power...
Seraph is among the last of the Travelers, those who strive to destroy the dark magic released by their ancestors' mistakes. Seraph tried to escape her people's duty and live a quiet life, until evil found her... and her family.
A cunning new force for darkness called the Shadowed stalks the land, feeding on death, destruction, and the sleeping Stalker's power. He plans to wake the Stalker, wreaking untold havoc, but he needs those who bear the Travelers' magic to release the dark god... and he has his sights set on Seraph and her family.
Now Seraph must use all her cunning and ability as a Raven mage to track down the Shadowed and strike against him before it is too late...
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2 member(s) found this review helpful.
The Travelers are a gypsy breed of mind-gifted humans who have a mission to save the world (of course). This is the sequel in which the family must confront the reason they were all born. Good suspense. Read the first book, Raven's Shadow, first. First-rate pair.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
I enjoyed this tale up to a point but I found myself getting bored and not really caring how it ended. There is a lot of journeying that seemed to last forever with no real action. I found most of this book tedious and not quite as interesting as the first book.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Seems like a middle book to a trilogy. Some interesting ideas with the Travelers, but I found the story kind of flat.
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Damaris D. (I really like the Mercy books by Patricia Briggs. I think Mercy is such a great character that I have a hard time reading other books by her. The raven's story is interesting but just not my cup of tea.
Briggs still writes an amazing book, but I was a little disappointed in this one. I really wanted to like it as much as Raven's Shadow, but there were plot points in it that bugged me.
Even so, I was still pulled into the story. There were many unanswered questions from Raven's Shadow that needed to be resolved (and I think were), but in this book it seemed a bit more contrived than in the first. Where the first book everything seemed to make sense and fit together perfectly, in the second there were some key plot points that seemed to have been inserted because Briggs had written herself into something she couldn't get out of. It just didn't flow as well as it could have.
Even with the plot points that bugged me, it was still an enjoyable read and better than most of the fantasy-type books I've picked up lately.
Book 2 of the Travelers, Seraph and Tier find Collosae. Fight The Shadowed.
Good book. I liked Briggs' newest book, Moon Called, better. But still, I enjoyed this book.
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