“This book ended strongly enough, but it was a little bit painful getting there. After reading Canavan's truly breezy Black Magician series, Daggerspell was hard to get into. The concept is quite solid, but when reading this, a fantasy fanatic like myself can see the difference between it and modern fantasy. Almost 20 years have gone by since this book was originally published, and it feels a bit dated. Still very well written, my issues with it have to do with the jumping around in time that occurs throughout the first half of the book. While I know that this is needed to truly understand what happens in the end, it did become frustrating. In addition to this, I have also come off of a string of books and movies that address the idea of incest. This just happened to be the last in that trend (I hope!) and to be honest, I was quite tired of the idea at this point. I understand why it is necessary, but to be honest, I really don't need the gory details (and I am no prude!). Still a solid second half definitely makes me want to read more, especially since the taboo topic was taken care of in a neat way that will prevent it from being too big an issue in the subsequent books.”
mgverde wrote this review Tuesday, September 2 2008.
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