**Warning: This review contains nothing much except venting and
spoilers!! So don't read this if you haven't read the book!**
I hated this book with the white-hot passion of a thousand
burning suns!! How in the world could
Kull and Olive NOT be together?? It can’t
be true. I thought it was bad enough
when Kull’s father forbade their relationship.
But now that King Herrick is gone and Kull is the apparent leader of the
Wults, AND he seemingly blames her for not saving his father’s life (even
though she couldn’t have done so) – it seems there is no way that they can ever
be together. It simply isn’t fair.
I (obviously) got very drawn into this story, much as I did
in the first novel of the series. However,
I wasn’t as impressed with this one.
Everything that occurred just seemed like part of one endless pilgrimage
for an intended purpose that was to no avail in the end. Overall, there was way too much death and
sadness in this tome for me. (I’m such a
lightweight when it comes to grief!)
There was a lot learned about many secrets kept by various
individuals, groups and species, all of which was extremely interesting, and
possibly built more of the background for later storylines. But the relationship between Kull and Olive
was disappointing all along in this volume.
They didn’t really seem to make a connection or to further their
relationship at all. In fact, they
seemed closer at the end of the last book than they did all throughout this
one.
The saddest part of the entire thing though, had to be that
King Herrick probably realized right before he died how truly special and valuable
is Olive. She followed his orders and
did as he asked, even though she knew that she (and Kull) would suffer the pain
of watching him pay the ultimate price.
But she protected the Everblossom nonetheless and thereby saved
Faythander. Although a fat lot of good
it seemed to do anyone!
(I’m going to go off and sulk now, until I can get up the
courage to start volume three. At least
there are five more books in the series.
Maybe some redeeming event will happen at some point to make me feel better about things.)
I received a free eBook copy of "Spellweaver" from the author and have willingly provided an honest review.
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