Lisa from Seven Foot Shelves  has posted a mini-review of The Immortal Prince. Gotta love this one... it finishes with the line: Right. Thumbs up. Read this book, it is tasty goodness.

I like "tasty goodness". And she's says I'm starting to rival Robin Hobb. Did I mention Lisa is my new best friend?:)

Interesting though, that she comments how she got the "big reveal" quite easily. People say this a lot. An awful lot. All the time. Once a week I get quite an email saying "loved the book, Fallon, but I am so clever because figured out the big secret really early".

To which I always want to respond... I know, sweetie. But you're not as clever as you think. You were meant to work it out. I wasn't even trying to keep it a secret. I wrote it like that on purpose. You see, people patting themselves on the back for working the first "big secret" out, never saw the other one coming. Tee hee.

Anyway, here's the review. I suggest you check out the Seven Foot Shelves blog. It's an excellent site with some very interesting reviews for a wide variety of books.

I’m sticking to a mini-review on this book, because I’ve been putting off reviewing it for lack of verbose content. I don’t feel like writing a plot description – every time I try the summary falls flat and just doesn’t do the book justice. So, a mini-review!

Jennifer Fallon is rapidly rising on my list of authors I like – I have a feeling that by the end of this quartet she’ll break through from “good authors” to “favorite authors” on my mental tally. She just does characters and intrigue so damn well – what other author can claim that they have given me an aversion to a particular beverage based solely upon one of their characters’ use of it?

Woo, tangent! Stick to the mini-review. At first I was afraid that The Immortal Prince would be too predictable (I called one of her “big reveals” quite early) but she got me pretty good with another one of her reveals – any time an author causes me to emit an utterance loud enough to attract JD from two rooms over, it’s pretty impressive. The characters were excellent and well developed (as always) and I can sense the potential for angst building towards a head later in the quartet. Did I mention that Jennifer Fallon is starting to rival Robin Hobb for angst levels? Impressive, I know.

Right. Thumbs up. Read this book, it is tasty goodness.

I try not to think too much of the plot of a book that I'm reading...I like to be surprised. However, for Second Sons and the Tide Lords, I did guess some of the 'big reveals'.

I agree with Lisa...tasty goodness indeed.

i have to say my mind is constantly ticking over as i read any books, i have read all of yours and they have suprised me delightfully despite my mind racing ahead writing my own plot lines.
i just finnished the gods of amarantha and i have to say i haven't really been thrown just yet. i'm waiting for book three to slap me where it hurts!
tasty goodness ahmen

See - I suppose I'm a strange reader. I tend to go with the assumption that authors put clues in a book so that I can figure out stuff ahead of time. That that doesn't in fact make me brillaint, it just means I'm paying attention.

LOL Lisa...

I don't think you're strange, I think you're wonderful. And you're absolutely right... authors do put things in books so you can figure out things ahead of time. I just hope that with this series, I can catch you out ocassionally. :)