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The Immortal Prince (The Tide Lords Quartet)

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Jennifer Fallon has been rather hit and miss with me. I first read her Second Sons trilogy and to this day I still think it is one of the best trilogies that I have ever purchased. Because I liked The Lion of Senet so much I gobbled up her six Hythrun Chronicles books. I didn't enjoy that series nearly as much as Second Sons so I was hesitant to pick up the Immortal Prince right away. Well I am very glad that I took the chance. The plot is very good and without giving too much away I like the fact that your not sure if the main character is a good guy or not. Fallon does a great job of mixing action and politics with a romantic twist. I can't wait for the next Tide Lords book.

While this series has a delightful and intriguing premise, that of the interactions of a group of magic wielding immortals with the mortal realm they inhabit, the execution leaves a lot to be desired. This, the first novel in a 4 book series, is by far the best, introducing characters, and setting the stage for the conflicts, both political and personal, to come. It's reasonably well written, nicely paced, and full of interesting characters. It makes you want to buy the next book.

Don't.

In fact, don't buy this one.

The series goes downhill fast. Characters become wooden, the same scenes are replayed time and time again. Do we really need a recap of the previous chapter at the beginning of the next one? By the time the third book rolls around, plot devices are becoming fantastical to the point of absurdity, and obvious solutions are ignored.

The last novel is abysmal. Fallon's prose has become hackneyed, characters repeat the same lines at infinitum, plot devices and "coincidences" become fully unbelievable, and the resolution is a let down of epic proportions.

So while you may enjoy the first book, you might allow yourself to get hooked, resulting in a waste of forty dollars, or however much you spend on all four books.

So do yourself a favour, and skip this series. Her other books are much better, and there are many other authors out there that you will enjoy more.

I enjoy fantasy stories but I'm very tired of "A ragtag group of misfits must band together and get the magic doohickey before the big evil character does something really bad." This book does not follow that template.

The Tide Lords are a group of immortals that wield incredible power when the magical tide is high, and none aside from immortality when the tide is out. The tide of magic has been out for a thousand years, and most people regard the Tide Lords as myths.

The book starts with the Immortal Prince, the most famous of the Tide Lords, attempting suicide. The local nobility fear he might be an agent of a neighboring kingdom sent to cause unrest or political embarrassment, and the story progresses from there.

The characters are memorable, the setting is unique, I really enjoyed it. But things moved a little more slowly for the first two hundred pages than I would like. I know the writer has to gracefully fill in the back-story and flesh out the characters before all hell breaks loose, but I wish it had been done more quickly.

Even better than the first, and if you enjoyed the first (I most definitly positively absolutely did), you'll know what I mean, I didn't think that was possible.

Tides Jennifer! You did it again =)lol...


She takes us into a thrilling and absorbing read, and true to the title of the book, it was about [book:The Gods of Amyrantha|2470390].

Without revealing too much, I will start by saying that at the end of [book:The Immortal Prince|2038926], we know that there are 9 Tide Lords (powerful immortals that can influence the Tide) Cayal, Lukys, Maralyce, Brynden, Jaxyn, Pellys, Tryan, Elyssa and in the prologue of this book we are introduced to the final and ninth Kentravyon.

Now for the mortals, Arkady is in for some surprises in Torlenia, Stellan is in for some more surprises in Glaeba, the plot and the story just keeps getting bigger and better. The author has such an absorbing and addictive quality about her writing that just makes you keep turning the pages. When I got to pg 250, I didn't stop reading until I finished the book. I just couldn't put it down!

And Declan Hawkes, I started to like him in the first book, and after this one, I think I'm in love with him. He just seemed to be going through too much, and that twist and turn of events in the end....

I must admit I had a feeling,,,, and boy am I glad that my feelings were right!

And the Crasii Scards in this one, I wanted to read more about Warlock, as I enjoyed his character very much in the first one, but I'm sure Jennifer has bigger plans for him in her third and fourth installments. We do get more intimate with another Crasii in this one, Tiji the chameleon we were introduced to in the first, is absolutely captivating.

Having read all of Jennifer's work, I have to say that my favourite was the Hythrun Chronicles. After only reading 2 of her Tide Lords, this is one of my new all time favourite series.
I can't wait to start the thrid and fourth installments, and thank god for amazon I was able to purchase all 4 in one go.

Buy this series, read her work, you won't be disappointed.

If you don't want to wait for a long time to finish a series, don't start this one yet
It comes from australia, and who knows when they will finally get the rights to finish this worked out
fairly good concept, but she [fallon] has done better.