She is much stronger in this book ( )

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Title: Longeye
Series: Duainfey
Author: Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
Rating: of 5 Battle Axes
Genre: SFF
Pages: 416
Format: Kindle






Synopsis: Things are going wrong, both in the human world and in the fey world. The magical barrier, the keleigh, is having unintended side effects and it will take all the power of all the fey to set things right. My Thoughts: No matter how good this book was, or could have been, it is tainted by the previous book, Duainfey. Even though there is no explicit sex, rape or group rape, I kept waiting for it to happen, as it was in the previous book for no good reason. That pretty much destroyed my enjoyment of this book. One thing I figured out was that I also disliked these books so much because the 2 main characters, Meripen the fey and Rebecca the human, are both controlled by and act on, Fear. It defines who they are, what they think, how they react, how they plan [or don't] for future events. It was very, very unpleasant. It wasn't right up until the end of the book that they both got over it and became the kind of people I wanted to read about. Sadly, 20% of a second book isn't nearly enough to redeem the previous 180%. The ending seemed rather a cop out to me as well. A magical Deus Ex Machina. A completely selfless act by a whole group of people, who for thousands of years and up until this point, have exhibited nothing but selfishness and self-centeredness. With that all being said, Lee and Miller once again do an excellent job of writing. I like their style of writing and I have to admit, I can't tell who writes what, or how they divvy it up. That just makes it even better. " ( )

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The second installment in the Fey Duology following Duainfey. Separated from the mortal world by a shimmering, deadly wall, the Faerie realm is losing pieces of itself to a strange greyness. Tasked by his cousin to see what he can do to help the trees, the Wood-Wise Meripen Longeye almost loses himself - and that's before his cousin saddles him with keeping charge of a mortal woman. Becca, whom the trees call the Gardener, has no love for the Fae and no clue of her own power. But somehow, together, the unlikely pair are the only hope both worlds have for survival.

This would read best immediately following the first book. Without having the preceding events fresh in mind, not much would make sense. Other than that, on the whole this has a more positive tone than the first installment. Having spent most of that one making sure that both Becca and Meri are properly beaten down, they finally meet and get to come into their own, albeit reluctantly. Will go on my list for future re-reading. ( )

A nicely twisty ending to the duology, without the nasty sadomasochism of Duainfey. ( )