Collection
Series
Publication
Berkley Trade (2009), Edition: 1, Paperback, 384 pages
Description
Eight brothers, born in four sets of twins, two years apart to the day - they fulfill the curse of eight prophecy. Though no longer trapped in exile, their growing family faces new problems. The worst of those troubles now falls upon the last of the sons of destiny.
Language
Original language
English
User reviews
LibraryThing member emilyjo2001
I really like this series of books. The author closed up most of the endings well with the characters. I want to an epilogue to the book so that in a few years we find out how all the characters are doing. I was also disappointed that Hope has kids in another universe she will never see. She should
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be upset to give them up like that rather than ambivilant. Show Less
LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey
Hmmm. Not sure about this one. As a romance, it's fine - well, maybe a little too easy for them, but then they've been courting (mostly off-screen) for about a year already. But Hope's surprise introduces a whole sequence of completely new, unrelated to the previous books' stories events, to the
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point where this book feels a bit disconnected and random. One major reason for the surprise is to give them some distance and make them court one another rather than just automatically fall together...but there are so many things going on that their love-play gets a bit buried. The scene where Rora gets her Fountain extracted is beautifully done, but Morg and Hope...well, actually, they do play an important role in it. But their roles were very little foreshadowed and are lightly explained, so it doesn't connect up very well. Hope's insistence on chocolate as the cure for all ills is amusing, but again - it comes out of left field. The kidnapping is nicely done and logical within its framework (which is born entirely of the surprise Hope brought), but in the time when the focus should be on the Convocation and the fulfilling of Nightfall's incipient independence, there's this major side-story dragging off in another direction. And then the Convocation itself has this major event that comes out of nowhere - looking back afterward, I can see a few things that refer to it, but without the knowledge of the event they didn't mean anything. Decent story, excellent characters as always, and while I'm reading I enjoy it more or less - but looking at the book as a whole, it's not quite as satisfying as the previous ones. Too bad this one is the culmination of the series. Show Less