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6 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Pretentious, Derivative, and Lazy, 9 Oct 2005
It's not often I do reviews, it has to be a terrific book or something so monumentally awful that I feel compelled. The Iron Tree, I'm afraid, falls into the latter. While I barely managed to scrape through book one of the Bitterbynde trilogy, finding it far too wordy and dull to continue to book two, I recently found myself in need of another epic works to fill my train ride to work. So a new epic tale by Dart Thornon on the shelf. What the hell, I bought it. After all, she must have improved.In short, the book is truely awful. The plot moves along with all the consistency of concrete, full of cliches and romanticised characters you'd expect in a Mills and Boon throw-a-away paperback. The writing, as in Dart Thornton's previous books, is tiresome and pretentious, using rediculous words even an English teacher would need a dictionary to understand, and long, rambling passages that go absolutely nowhere. Often instead of giving the reader a quick description of a place, object or person, she'll babble on with a long list, and generally that long, boring list is for something of no importance to the story. It seems that Dart Thornton has the unique ability to sit at her computer and bash out thousands of words effortlessly, with little editing afterwards, and that's exactly what she does. It's hard to believe the glowing reviews, but then I checked Amazon.com just to see what reviews they had. Every one gives it 2 or 1 stars. If only I'd read those first !!
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5 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
Review, 12 Jul 2005
Honestly, when people write a review they should actually write a review, not give away the entire plotline... *cough cough*The Iron Tree is a complicated novel if you fully understand it, you need to have a fairly good vocabulary for this one, as with all of CDT's books. When you first read it, it all seems pretty much similar, and simple but if you really understand your literature you'll see CDT is a very expressive writer, giving you the full depth of this book emotionally. The plot, although a little slow, is good, entertaining and worthwhile. Evidently, the next books are not about Jarred or Lilith, but their daughter, so CDT is giving you the evidence of their background and history in The Iron Tree because in the next books, Jewel doesn't know her family history & has to find it out. This explains the scarcity of action. When the next books come out, you'll find that you need to know about her parents for most of it to be fully understood. All in all, a good read for someone with a vocabulary, although if you don't you can just ignore the words and get the jist of it, not as much action as some would like, but overall, some good writing to lighten up the plot. i give it 4 stars as i found it (as someone who has read CDT's other books) a can'tputdown.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A work in progress, 15 Mar 2006
By A Customer
I am a fan of the Bitterbynde Trilogy, so when I saw that Cecilia Dart-Thornton had a new book out I quickly jumped on the band-wagon. Unfortunately, I found the book a bit dull in comparison to her previous series. There was very little action until the very end, so it seems that, or I hope that, the author was merely laying the groundwork for the next title in the series. I found that I did not connect with these characters, unlike the first series, and I hope that Jewel's character will develop into a more likeable person as she is exposed to life outside the sheltering arms of her parents. I will keep my figures crossed.
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