by Juliet Marillier
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Beautiful Sorcha is the courageous young woman who risked all to save her family from a wicked curse and whose love shattered generations of hate and bridged two cultures.
It is from her sacrifice that Sorcha's brothers were brought home to their ancestral fortress Sevenwaters, and her life has known much joy.
But not all the brothers were able to fully escape the spell that transformed them into swans, and it is left to Sorcha's daughter Liadan to help fulfill the destiny of the Sevenwaters clan. Beloved child and dutiful daughter, Liadan embarks on a journey that shows her just how hard-won was the peace that she has known all her life.
Liadan will need all of her courage to help save her family, for there are dark forces and ancient powers conspiring to destroy this family's peace--and their world. And she will need all of her strength to stand up to those she loves best, for in the finding of her own true love, Liadan's course may doom them all . . . or be their salvation.
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Second of the Sevenwaters trilogy of novels about the last days of heroic Ireland, Son of the Shadows takes up the story of the children of Sorcha, who saved her enchanted brothers, and Hugh, the Briton she married. Sorcha's daughter Liadan is a gifted seer and healer who thinks, in spite of her visions, that she knows what the future has in store for her--caring for her dying mother and then an alliance marriage to Eamonn. A chance meeting on the road carries her off to care for a dying man--one of the mercenaries of the sinister Painted Man, Eamonn's archenemy and a killer for hire. Liadan discovers that she cannot choose whom she loves and that she and the Painted Man are as bound up in destiny as her mother and father were before her. This is an intelligent historical romance in which the supernatural is a part of the character's everyday lives to an extent that makes it hard to think of the book as specifically a fantasy--these are people to whom the beings of forest speak on a regular basis and to whom sorcery is real. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk
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 Mesmerizing, Hard to Forget!, 2008-09-13
I began this book a few days before leaving for a beach vacation. I read it throughout a tropical storm. I read it at the beach and near the pool. I could NOT put it down. Like DAUGHTER OF THE FOREST, this novel captured me, heart & soul. (And I'm not ordinarily a fan of fantasy fiction.) I didn't want to do anything at the beach except read this book. And when I finished it--four days before vacation was over--I couldn't stop thinking about it. If I'd had the third book of the trilogy, I would've started it immediately. Juliet Marillier is an exceptional talent, and will be an automatic buy for me from now on.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 Not what I expected after Daughter of the Forest, 2008-08-24
I admit that I am quite new to this genre, so it may not be all too fair to let my disappointment in this sequel cloud my judgment over the genre altogether. I actually consider myself very indulgent when it comes to eccentricity in any form, therefore I might have made nothing out of this were it not for the story itself that failed to sustain my respect for the author of Daughter of the Forest.
Whereas Daughter of the Forest was an intrigue from start to finish--though this might be due to my "new"ness in encountering such blatantly hardcore fantasy--Son of the Shadows did not deliver a fraction of that charm; instead it felt as if the author was stretching the story deliberately, webbing the story out of sheer(and rather sad) effort, not her heart, and this continued to disappoint me as I actually felt her trying to sustain the brilliant thread of the first book in a death grip. This thread should have been firmly knotted at the end of Daughter of the Forest if the sequel were to turn out like this...If I hadn't known, these two books could have been written by two different authors and I'm very apprehensive at the moment of the third book in the series.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Another Strong Heroine, Another Enthralling Tale, 2008-07-30
The Son of The Shadows takes us to the future and is the story of Sorcha's and Red's children - Niamh, Sean and Liaden. The Daughter of the Forest ended with a rather sinister prophesy of an unseen figure lurking in the shadows of Sorcha's vision. In the sequel we are told that this figure is Liaden.
The novel is thus the tale of Liaden - twin sister of Sean, a healer with the gift of the sight and a threat to the designs of the Fair Folk. In the first novel Sorcha is presented as a brave woman who submits to the will of the Fair Folk and the destiny designed for her. Liaden, her daughter, though very much like her mother in appearance and talent, is quite the opposite. Determined to make her own choices in life, she defies the warnings and pleas of the Fair Folk and heeds the voices of a much older force that echoes the longings of her heart. She is thus a strong heroine in her own right.
What I like about the novel is that Marillier shows great depth and versitalitiy in characterization in her portrayal of a new generation of characters and her interweaving of lives. It was indeed heartwarming to find out Bran's true identity. Furthermore the mystery behind Finbar's disappearance is also unraveled. Her infusion of magic and reality also creates a perfect balance that has resonances in our spiritual lives as well.
One disappointing factor was that I kept comparing this story to the first and it did not stir in me the sympathy and attachment I felt for Sorcha, her brothers and Red. This could be due to the fact that Liaden makes few sacrifices. But then again that is the strength of her character.
Like the first, this novel ends with many tales unfinished and I'm looking forward to read the third and final:( novel.
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Gorgeous!, 2008-07-02
Second book in the Sevenwaters trilogy.
Sorcha and Hugh now have grown children of their own. Liadan is much like her mother, a healer who sees visions of the future. She looks forward to a peaceful, orderly life at Sevenwaters, but circumstances put her on a different and much more dangerous path. While on her way home from a neighboring village, Liadan is captured by a vicious band of mercenaries led by the Painted Man and taken to their camp to care for a fatally wounded man. An ancient prophecy, as well as her own feelings, ties Liadan to the Painted man and leads her discover a new path. Laiden must make many difficult choices and is forced to make a choice that may save Sevenwaters or destroy it forever.
Beautifully written mix of fantasy, historical fiction, and romance.
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Mehhhh...., 2008-03-31
If you're looking to read a book as good as the first in this series, (Daughter of the Forest) then forget it, Son of the Shadows simply does not live up to the its excellent predecessor. Liadan, the heroine of this novel, is characterized in a way as to make her too perfect and very hard to sympathize with. She endures none of the hardship which her mother went through and this makes it difficult to bond with her strife. Her tale is essentially a love story with some action and magic in the mix. This book was a disappointment to me. The authors writing remains as strong as before but I felt that she was simply weaving out a plot instead of creating the believable world I found reading the first novel.
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