the_faery_queen
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I wrote a review for lj, but thought i'd share it here, it's for book three of the tamir triliogy by lynn flewlling, thought it may interest those of you who have read the series, and those who haven't, well maybe it will make you want to read it, cos it's good. it may be a bit spoilery tho, im afraid! so will push it down a few lines
Finished reading it on the plane and nearly had a cry! this is the third book in the tamir series, and though not as strong as the others, in my opinion, it was a very good end to teh series.
tamir is now a woman, no longer tobin, no longer wearing her brother's skin, and her brother is also no longer tied to her, and is a sad, vengeful ghost wanting revenge. Tamir has her own problems, of course, in the shape of her cousin, Korin, who is her rival for the throne, and who she doesn't want to fight.
most of the book deals with this, with her fighting to get the throne, and visiting oracles to be todl that that is what she has to do. it's sad, because of how close Tobin/Tamir was with her cousin, and how the tight group of Companions are now split in loyalty between the two cousins. It's also sad, of course, because of Brother, her ghostly twin, unable to fully move on until he has revenge.
I loved the concept of the series. i love the sad and dark natyure of it. i never really felt that sorry or sympathetic towards Brother until right at the end tho, and the old extract of Arkionel talking abvout being haunted by the infants cry. it really drove home to me, i guess, just how awful a situation it was. it's one thing to know and read about a dead baby, a tortured ghost, and how it drove his mother mad, but it's another to hear something so simple as that, of the cry, and how it haunted a character, and to think about how truly awful it was that that boy never got to live. i think that this book summed up the awfulness of the situation more than the others. we saw how truly unfair it was that Tamir lost her brother, her mother, and had to live a lie for so long, in ways that weren't truly driven home in the early two books when she wasn't fully aware of the entire situation.
my ownly negative point about it was the constant reference to tamir missing her boy bits and the endless moon blood she seemd to have! i get that she was still tied to her dead brother and that's why she still felt the boys bits, but i think it could ha\ve been mentioned a few times less without loosing any of that. i was nearly ready to scream by a half way point because it was mentioned so much at the start.
all in all, it was a great series. it made me cry and i think it's a far better series than the nightrunner one. i also am confused about why, what was written in the nightrunner series, concerning tamir, didn't seem to happen, that is, that she was lost at sea! cos i am fairly sure i read that. and i also didn't relate to any of the companions really. it had been so long since the second book that i'd forgotten about most of them anyway! i also wished there had been more descriptions to make it more vivid, but all in all, i really like this series
Finished reading it on the plane and nearly had a cry! this is the third book in the tamir series, and though not as strong as the others, in my opinion, it was a very good end to teh series.
tamir is now a woman, no longer tobin, no longer wearing her brother's skin, and her brother is also no longer tied to her, and is a sad, vengeful ghost wanting revenge. Tamir has her own problems, of course, in the shape of her cousin, Korin, who is her rival for the throne, and who she doesn't want to fight.
most of the book deals with this, with her fighting to get the throne, and visiting oracles to be todl that that is what she has to do. it's sad, because of how close Tobin/Tamir was with her cousin, and how the tight group of Companions are now split in loyalty between the two cousins. It's also sad, of course, because of Brother, her ghostly twin, unable to fully move on until he has revenge.
I loved the concept of the series. i love the sad and dark natyure of it. i never really felt that sorry or sympathetic towards Brother until right at the end tho, and the old extract of Arkionel talking abvout being haunted by the infants cry. it really drove home to me, i guess, just how awful a situation it was. it's one thing to know and read about a dead baby, a tortured ghost, and how it drove his mother mad, but it's another to hear something so simple as that, of the cry, and how it haunted a character, and to think about how truly awful it was that that boy never got to live. i think that this book summed up the awfulness of the situation more than the others. we saw how truly unfair it was that Tamir lost her brother, her mother, and had to live a lie for so long, in ways that weren't truly driven home in the early two books when she wasn't fully aware of the entire situation.
my ownly negative point about it was the constant reference to tamir missing her boy bits and the endless moon blood she seemd to have! i get that she was still tied to her dead brother and that's why she still felt the boys bits, but i think it could ha\ve been mentioned a few times less without loosing any of that. i was nearly ready to scream by a half way point because it was mentioned so much at the start.
all in all, it was a great series. it made me cry and i think it's a far better series than the nightrunner one. i also am confused about why, what was written in the nightrunner series, concerning tamir, didn't seem to happen, that is, that she was lost at sea! cos i am fairly sure i read that. and i also didn't relate to any of the companions really. it had been so long since the second book that i'd forgotten about most of them anyway! i also wished there had been more descriptions to make it more vivid, but all in all, i really like this series
