DEN OF WOLVES picks up where TOWER OF THORNS left off. Blackthorn and Grim have returned to their cottage, Blackthorn curmudgeonly about her recent revelations and Grim silently and steadfastly enduring. Once again, their attempt at a quiet life is interrupted, this time by a young girl who has been thrust upon our Prince to […]
Last year in DREAMER’S POOL we met Blackthorn and Grim, who quickly became two of my new favorite characters. They are both wonderfully horribly broken, but that mutual brokenness is what made them so compatible. As friends, as cohorts, as travel companions. Blackthorn, fueled by her implacable hatred of the man who took everything from […]
Sometimes when I finish a book I know exactly what I think about it, and the review practically writes itself. Other times . . . I finish, thinking that overall I liked the book, but . . . something remains . . . unresolved. And the more I dwell on it, the more issues emerge, […]
I know I mentioned that I’m a longtime fan of Juliet Marillier in the not too distant past. How I kept reading Shadowfell despite it’s lackluster beginning, and how Raven Flight renewed my faith in her abilities. There are many reasons for that faith, but the simplest way to explain it is that in fantasy […]