Lynne T. (lynneatl) reviewed on 7/23/2009

Helpful Score: 3

While I thought this book was much better than Wicked, I found it to be just as depressing as the first one. It was only in the last fourth of this book that the story finally started to get interesting. The main character Liir, like his mother before him, never seems to accomplish much until nearly the ending of the book. He is neglected and abused his whole childhood and he doesn't fare much better in early adulthood. The dialogue between the characters has to be read carefully as well -- facial expressions, thoughts, and body language are not described when the characters are speaking to each other so sometimes it is difficult to tell if the conversational remarks are humorous, used with sarcasm or are meant to be cruel. If there is a next book in this series I will probably read it just to find out if the story continues to improve.

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