Review: Too much at times.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 26, 2013
I started this series last year, before it became popular. I think I was the tenth review for "Thinblade," in fact. But now, six books in, I'm getting tired. The book started off great, and I was thinking "four stars," but then I started to get bored. The story drags on and gets repetitive (I lost count of the number of times Abigail and Magda explained the Sin'Rath). To be honest, I can't tell Abigail and Isabel apart. Their names are so similar, and so are their personalities. Yikes! And there was so much crying (from EVERY major female character--Chloe cries TWICE for the same reason at two different parts of the book!) and laughing/smiling from Phane. Just so much repetition. And then there are the Linkershim, which are brought up around the middle of the story and then all but forgotten until the overlong finale. Even I forgot about them, and they're the title characters. Overall, the book was fairly fun (though I'm getting sick to death of magical collars that prohibit magic), and if you've come this far in the series, you might as well keep going. Not a bad read.