The first two books in Hocking's new series Watersong which I am told she was paid an advance of two million on. I was also given to understand that was for 9 books, but this series only goes for 4 and a short story spinoff.
I'll let Amazon describe it so as to avoid any possibility of a spoiler. I will mention that it's fantasy but NOT vampires, at least strictly speaking.
I think I did a review of the first one here but I can't find it, so I will just mention my main problem with it again. Capri, the town it is set in, is certainly no present place on the Delmarva Coast I know of, though such may have existed decades ago. That's much less a problem in the second book as the setting is less important to the story. In fact, she has an interesting way of making it rather more fantastic for much of the work but actually much more believable.
It's not badly written at all, IMNSHO, and the second book (Lullaby) gets more into character development while even probing the mythology she's basing it on a little in an interesting way. I would have liked to have seen more of the mythology but it is a romance.
I agree with the review I've read of Hocking's stuff in general. It's literary candy, but not quite as fast paced as her vampire stuff. I recommend it if you like romance and/or mythology. I have to advise you to get it from the library as you can read it in 3 hours, tops, without skimming, though it's about 90,000 words.
I'll let Amazon describe it so as to avoid any possibility of a spoiler. I will mention that it's fantasy but NOT vampires, at least strictly speaking.
I think I did a review of the first one here but I can't find it, so I will just mention my main problem with it again. Capri, the town it is set in, is certainly no present place on the Delmarva Coast I know of, though such may have existed decades ago. That's much less a problem in the second book as the setting is less important to the story. In fact, she has an interesting way of making it rather more fantastic for much of the work but actually much more believable.
It's not badly written at all, IMNSHO, and the second book (Lullaby) gets more into character development while even probing the mythology she's basing it on a little in an interesting way. I would have liked to have seen more of the mythology but it is a romance.
I agree with the review I've read of Hocking's stuff in general. It's literary candy, but not quite as fast paced as her vampire stuff. I recommend it if you like romance and/or mythology. I have to advise you to get it from the library as you can read it in 3 hours, tops, without skimming, though it's about 90,000 words.
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