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Scattered across a vast empire, the five heroes must escape their prisons and find each other again. For only then will they be able to re-create their Blending, that magical melding of their powers that will allow them to defeat their enemies
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Where's Sharon Green's Editor So I Can KILL Them?,
By Lenore "Biffsbabe" (Exit 63 on the GSP) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Betrayals (The Blending, Book 4) (Mass Market Paperback)
Let me give you a little background. When I first bought these books I was probably thirteen or so and remember thinking they were just the keenest thing ever. Looking back, I think my little thirteen-year-old self was either far more patient then I am now, or I just enjoyed the soft-core, romance novel porn passages. Whichever.
Anyway, remembering how much I loved them I decided to go back and read them recently. I promised myself I would read every single one of the damn things. Every. Single. One. Problem one: This could have been one book. Honestly. One. Heck, I'll be exceedingly kind and say that maybe you'd need two to completely round out the story. There are FIVE. Want to know why? Picture a scene. Character one tells character two that, say, "Blue Monkeys are attacking", except, you know, in a few pages, moralizing endlessly about the place of the blue monkey in society. Character three enters the room and character one and two tell her about the blue monkeys, again, in a few pages. Character three then goes into the garden and tells character four about the blue monkeys. While I admitt no blue monkey's actually appear in this book, every problem or idea brought up by a character is passed around this way. It's insane. Problem two: The pep-talks. There are a lot of them. They drag. You dread them. You start to wish that someone would loose hope and no one else would give a damn. Problem three: The sex scenes that my thirteen- year- old-self enjoyed so much are laughably bad. No one has the proper bits, instead they both have "sexes". Which causes quite a bit of confusion over who's doing what to who. The good guy sex is always mind-blowing and fantastic, and the bad-guy sex is kinky and evil, which bring us to... Problem four: Most of the villains. I admit to having a soft-spot for the challenging blending, villain wise. But everyone else might as well have pasted on a twirly black mustache and kicked some puppies. If you're a member of the aristocracy you range from deeply unpleasant to totally evil. The villians usually show how evil they are through lusting after the heroes and wanting to have that kinky, evil sex with them. After the third or so villian taking this route it becomes ridiculous. There is good here, the four main characters are interesting for, at least, the duration of the first book. The magic and world-building are good and the cover art is exceedingly pretty. My advice, buy the first one and assume everything works out all right, make up your own ending, just don't try to slog through the whole series.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing by comparison,
By A Customer
This review is from: Betrayals (The Blending, Book 4) (Mass Market Paperback)
1) Should have been titled "Transition". The rescue was good but the rest of the book failed to move the rest of the plot along. There were no new discoveries of the characters' powers or relationships.2) I'm hoping Ms.Green's character dialogue is an attempt at some type of experiment in writing like a victorian novelist. There are no dialects or differences in speech patterns anymore. The supposed farm boy's vocabulary,usage, and mannerisms are identical to the son of nobility (Lorand and Rion). And then to do what? Make writing easier? Alison Meerk suddenly loses his dialect! To prove what? that if you're an "educated" man you speak like a victorian woman? Sorry, I really liked the 1st 3 books but now its starting to get on my nerves... 3) Ms.Green needs to flesh out her laws of magic. Fire is "spectacular", Earth has a broad range of abilities, and Spirit almost as broad when dealing with "entities" and humans but all water and air seem to be able to do is suck things dry (though there was some water magic improvement this round)! Come on get creative! You've done such a great job with the basics, if you worked on the details ...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Different Style,
This review is from: Betrayals (The Blending, Book 4) (Mass Market Paperback)
I have read the first four books in the Blending series, and although there are certain things about them that I dislike, I still seem to be driven to read the next one. I think it's because there are some unanswered questions from the first one. I am reading the last book in the series now, and I hope those questions are answered. I do like Ms. Green's type of magic, though. Her books are definitely different from other types of fantasty. I sometimes get the impression I am reading one of those Victorian romance novels.
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