Lady of Mercy

94 points, 4 ¾ stars!

Quote:

“It's always easier,' he offered at last, 'when you feel these things yourself; seeing them in other people reveals just how ugly they are.”

Review:
Lady of Mercy takes up immediately after the end of Children of the Blood....and then just kind of stops there for a while. Not a lot happens until the very end of the book. Which meant it was kind of boring. I really liked it, because I liked the characters, and I liked the overall story. I just felt something was missing overall, and I'm not exactly certain what it was.

There is a lot of travel in Lady of Mercy. Oh my, is there a lot of travelling. Then there is a lot of trying to figure out who the bad guys are. There are a few new characters, and you show more suspect all of them of betrayal because you don't know who they are, and you don't know what is up, but you know something is going to go down. It was definitely an interesting experience to read!

The thing I liked the most throughout Lady of Mercy was Erin, no longer 'Sara'. You feel a range of emotions with her. The betrayal from Stefanos. The depression from the loss of her people and that the person responsible was the person she loves. Even the loneliness, and the wish that she was with Stefanos, even though she hates him, and the guilt. This all swirls around inside her the entire time.

Plus, Erin learns what Sara means to the people. How much they revere her. How much of their hope is tangled in the tale. Lady of Mercy doesn't have a lot that happens. It was more a book of discovery. Erin figures out what she has to do, her fath forward. After that, it is just setting up the finale.

And all of this? All I've said? It's just a part of what makes everything so damn good. show less

Early Michelle West, you can see the seeds of what is going to be a shit hot fantasy writer and world builder but here the writing is still quite young. Point of view and exposition problems.

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