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32 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
An excellent new addition to the world of, 'The Fire Rose' and 'The Serpents Shadow.'
All these stories are extremly loosly based on popular fairy tales, although you do have to look quite hard to find the links.
The Gates of Sleep is set in a somewhat alternative Victorian Time, where some people have a link to a particular element such as Water. This enables them to command mythical creatures linked to that element and to perform magical feats.
Some of the plot features parallel 'Sleeping Beauty,' with a curse being cast on the main character which is eventually triggered. However the inclusion of the Arts and Crafts Movement, Factory conditions and the 'prince' who is in fact a doctor give it a very different slant.
Overall a fantastic book, as are the other two. I eagerly await the next one.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
She can do no wrong in my eyes. As an aspiring writer myself she is a brilliant role model. Once again she has produced a book I was loth to put down till I'd read it from cover to cover
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is attempt at reframing 'Sleeping Beauty' within the setting of industrial England and Mercedes Lackey's Elemental Masters series. However, the plot just doesn't work, and is completely absent for large stretches of the book, which are instead busy talking about how wonderful it is to be an Elemental Master and how misguided everyone else is.
The villain is known from the very beginning of the book (no suspense) but WHY she does what she does is completely unknown to the very end. Her schemes simply make no sense. If she has the power to murder powerful magicians at a whim, why does she instead waste power on a complicated curse for a helpless infant, and then seem unable to actually carry out that curse until the writer realised the book was almost over and it had better get on with the plot? What was the point of cursing her anyway? What was she doing with all her supposed power?
No one really carries out any plans - when the final crisis comes, it is quickly solved without us having to wonder about how, and all the actions taken by characters earlier in the story are completely meaningless. And then we're suddenly told two characters who have barely interacted are in love and are going to get married.
About all you can draw from this story is that pottery factories are bad.
The villain is known from the very beginning of the book (no suspense) but WHY she does what she does is completely unknown to the very end. Her schemes simply make no sense. If she has the power to murder powerful magicians at a whim, why does she instead waste power on a complicated curse for a helpless infant, and then seem unable to actually carry out that curse until the writer realised the book was almost over and it had better get on with the plot? What was the point of cursing her anyway? What was she doing with all her supposed power?
No one really carries out any plans - when the final crisis comes, it is quickly solved without us having to wonder about how, and all the actions taken by characters earlier in the story are completely meaningless. And then we're suddenly told two characters who have barely interacted are in love and are going to get married.
About all you can draw from this story is that pottery factories are bad.
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