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| Shadows and Light | 
 enlarge | Author: Anne Bishop
Publisher: Roc
Category: Book
List Price: $7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (20 reviews)
Sales Rank: 184236
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0451458990
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780451458995
ASIN: 0451458990
Publication Date: October 1, 2002
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Product Description
The national bestselling author of the Black Jewels Trilogy returns with book two in the thrilling Tir Alainn Trilogy-a dazzling tale of romance, high adventure, and thrilling fantasy.
An encroaching evil threatens the lives of every witch, woman, and Fae in the realm. And only the Bard, the Muse, and the Gatherer of Souls possess the power to stop the bloodshed.
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Good second book May 19, 2008
This book continues the trilogy that started with Pillars of the Words. It introduces new characters that add more to the story line. It is a good book, but in my opinion it isn't as good as the Black Jewels Trilogy by Bishop. If you liked the first book, you will continue to enjoy this one. If you are expecting it to advance to the level of other books by Bishop, I am sorry to say that you won't find it. Still a good read and I would recommend it to fantasy lovers.
 Meh. Reread the Jewels trilogy instead. May 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the first book in Anne Bishop's trilogy about the witches and the fae. I'm assuming that like most people, you came to these books because you read the Black Jewels trilogy and loved them. If you didn't, then go read the Black Jewels Trilogy. These aren't BAD, but those are MUCH better. If you did, read on:
The witches are strong female persons who protect the land and have some witchy powers. The fae are deity like personages who are exotic in look, power, and existance. The commononers (men!) are influenced by nefarious bad guys to mistrust and mistreat women and kill all the powerful witches. Its not as badly similiar to the Jewels Trilogy as Firebrand was to The Mists of Avalon, but its pretty darn similar. TOO similar. Powerful women, feared and hunted by less powerful men who want to destroy them or force them to submit. The women hold the power, the men protect them physically. Did we read this already? Yes.
The stories aren't IDENTICAL by any means, and there is plenty of good reading to be had, but for me it was impossible to shake the feeling that I'd read this before. For me, the "women hold great power, men protect them" thing was the fundamental around which the world of the Black Jewels trilogy was built. For this story, it feels almost preachy. There's some good characters, a good story, but it doesn't have the holistically built world feel that the black jewels trilogy does.
This first book was, I think, the best of the three - the characters are sweet and likeable and original enough. The trilogy as a whole just degenerates though and by the third book you end up wishing you hadn't bothered. I often found myself skipping ahead to just read about my favorite characters. This is a bad sign for me as I never do that.
If you're just looking for something to read, these are certainly adequate. But if you want to recapture the joys of the Black Jewels trilogy well, so did Anne Bishop apparently.
 great book April 28, 2008
I am very pleased with this purchase. The book is in very good condition and arrived by the promised date.
I am a fan. August 15, 2007
The reason I picked up this book is because I really loved Bishop's Dark Jewels series. Even though, I wanted her to go back to the Dark Jewel world, I was pretty happy that she was still writing.
This book about a the Fae and country witches was intriguing. I hate to use a cliche, but I couldn't put it down. If you like well-written fantasy, you'll love it too. I want more.
Not the Black Jewels, but. . . April 30, 2004
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
First I have to say congradulations to Anne Bishop for setting Ari on the sidelines and introducing Brianna, who is ever so much more interesting. Bishop has a particular talent for creating spirited female characters who aren't annoying (hello romance novels).Although her characters aren't particularly multi-dimensional, they are enjoyable and the relationships are particularly nicley done. The humourous moments are charming and unforced, and it's nice to see a light side to the darker themes in the book. Bishop writes well,and her books are easy to read, but she has this incredibly obnoxious habit of punctuating her character's. sentences. like. this. And it drives me crazy. Bishop is too good of a writer to use silly writing devices such as that. My real complaint about this book, however, and the general theme of Bishop's books seems to be that men should be subservient to females. Shadow's and Light makes all these ominous references to how powerful the withches are, and how everyone has forgotten them, and the men are supposed to worship them. It seems a little contradictory to me that it's utterly horrible for the Black Coats to make women subservient but its alright for the witches to make men subservient. That bothered me a bit. Overall this was a good book. This series lacks the polish and love that went into the Black Jewels, but it is worth reading, I think.
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