Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar

[slave ruthie]

i was thinking about waht you said, Morrighan...and i was very satisfied with the third book because it completes the pattern set out particularly in Kushiel's Chosen without repeating it. perhaps it is a bit more mystical but i didn't feel like we were going over old ground. in fact, i found the last book of the trilogy much deeper and darker than the first two and the ending was so bittersweet that i found myself smiling with tears tricking down my cheeks just hugging the book when it was all doen (and yes, i AM very romantic and it might be unfashionable but that's how i am lol)

i don't want to be soppy here but for me, there was such an overwhelming presence of LOVE in the books - maybe i connected with them because i know that a BDSM lifestyle doesn't contradict the presence of Love in a D/s relationship and here is a writer who can truly express it. i struggle and fumble in my attempts to portray this in my stories...how can i not be moved and awed by Jacqueline Carey's skill? She has raised up to the highest stature a humble "whore's unwanted get" and shown how there is strength and beauty in the lowliest of us. Repeatedly, she takes weak and vulnerable people and brings them to glory. Her craft lies in making her stories uplifting without being too moral or cloyingly sweet. The characters are flawed, filled with doubts, they make mistakes, they stumble...they are so human.

So yes, the third book is worthy of the first two and if ppl don't bother to read it i think they will have missed the point of Phèdre nó Delaunay's life...

with love & respect

ruthie
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p.s. sorry for spelling your name incorrectly, Morrighan!