Shalador’s Lady by Anne Bishop

… reading Shalador’s Lady, I spent a lot of time in this major tug of war with myself. Part of me likes revisiting the old characters. Part of me is just so sick of Anne Bishop telling me through her characters’ dialogs how emotionally scarred they are and how the Blood operate and so on. So much extra time is spent on this stuff rather than on the characters and plot that are supposed to be central to the book… Sadly, I don’t like or care about these new characters all that much… So when I hit page 350 and realized I still had another 100+ pages to go, I also realized that I was really tired of reading this book…  Some fans will undoubtedly love Shalador’s Lady. If you loved The Shadow Queen, you’ll probably love this one too. But a guilty pleasure needs to still be a pleasure… Read the rest.