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I find insulting the suggestion that Lackey's latest Valdemar entry is more suitable for young adults. Insulting to the YA audience, that is. They're better than the weaksauce plotting here, and the book's bland characters. Nor would they tolerate the protagonist's spoken dialect—an apostrophe-laden......more

This is a great middle book, moving the story further, giving us some answers but still leaving questions for the next two books. I don't mind that this series moves slowly, and I love spending time with the characters and seeing how they grow, but I do think this series could be three books, not fi......more

I'm of two minds about this book. On the one hand, I'm into the plot enough that I'd like to see how it all turns out. On the other, this volume felt really slapped together. Writers should at least know how to write and editors ought to be able to spot typos. Neither happened all that well in this......more

The book is good, but it's not. Hopefully by the time I'm done with this review, I'll have clarified why I think that. I admit it. It's been a long time since I read anything that was considered new by ML. Except for a collaboration book she did with another author in which the style and feel were so......more

A continuation of Lackey's Valdemer series. This latest book is the third book in her series about three trainees in the Collegium, Mags, who is clearly being trained to become a spy or the King's Own, Bear, a gifted non magical healer, who has to fight bigotry on the part of his family -- who think......more