Review: Tower of Thorns

Tower of Thorns by Juliet Marillier
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I very much enjoyed this second outing of Blackthorn and Grim - both are compelling characters - but the book was just too long. For a while, I felt the book was a holding pattern: Blackthorn was keeping a secret from Grim; Grim was keeping a secret from Blackthron, and Lady Geileis had a secret of her own as well. As the reader, you know what the secrets were or at least knew that there were secrets and had to "listen" to all three go on about their respective secrets when really you'd wish they'd say what the secret was and tell someone else!

So while the beginning and ending were compelling, the middle bit dragged and could have done with editing down.

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