Raven's Strike (The Raven Duology, Book 2)
by Patricia Briggs
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Author: Patricia BriggsEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-07-26
ISBN: 0441013120
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Ace
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- ISBN13: 9780441013128
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Raven's Strike (The Raven Duology, Book 2)
Book Review: Interesting setting, neat characters
Summary: 5 Stars
_Raven's Strike_ is a continuation of _Raven's Shadow_. _Raven's Strike_ starts with the magicly gifted Seraph going home with her husband Tier, their sons Jes and Lehr, and their companion Hennea. At the end of _Raven's Shadow_, Tier had been rescued from an evil cult by the others, and the kingdom's young emperor had been saved at the same time. Tier had been badly beaten, but also had demonstrated a gift for a type of magic usually only seen within Travelers such as Hennea, Seraph, and Seraph's children Jes, Lehr and Rinnie.
Once they get home, things don't slow down for Tier and Seraph and their family. The new emperor Phoran needs help rooting out a conspiracy against him; Tier is sick and steadily getting sicker; and there is a Shadowed enemy still around who is killing Traveler clans. Jes and Hennea are still trying to sort out the nature of their relationship, or whether they even want to have a relationship, while Seraph and Hennea are trying to work out the pecking order between two very strong-minded and dominant females. In the middle of all this, it becomes necessary to find a lost city that hasn't existed for over a thousand years, before the emperor is overthrown and Tier fades away into a mindless shell.
I read _Raven's Strike_ without having read _Raven's Shadow_, the first in the series. Consequently, there were comments and concepts in _Raven's Strike_ that I didn't understand right away. It would probably be better for the reader to start with _Raven's Shadow_.
With that admission out of the way -- I loved this book! The action scenes tended to be a bit brief, but watching the growing relationships between characters was a worthy trade for that. I liked the strong characters, the explanations of magic and how the Traveler magic works was interesting, the mermori and library with its Scholar were fascinating to read about, and the whole story of the dead gods and the balance of the Weaver and the Stalker was really well done.
However, before I suggested this book to anyone, I would recommend they read _Raven's Shadow_ first.
Summary of Raven's Strike (The Raven Duology, Book 2)
The Traveler Seraph must use all her cunning and ability as a Raven mage to track down an unimaginable force of destruction known as the Shadowed.
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