Daughter of the Blood (The Black Jewels #1)

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Librarian s Note Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.The Dark Kingdom is preparing itself for the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy the arrival of a new Queen, a Witch who will wield power than even the High Lord of Hell himself But this new ruler is young, and very susceptible to influence and corruption whoever controls her controls the Darkness And now, three sworn enemies begin a ruthless game of politics and intrigue, magic and betrayal, and the destiny of an entire world is at stake. New Read Daughter of the Blood (The Black Jewels #1) By Anne Bishop For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr My wife bought the first book in this series and for some reason read it The whole time she read it she complained how bad it was Then for some reason I read it and we finished the series The only explanation I can come up with is that magic is real, anne bishop is a witch a...I think this book gave me brain herpes A good read, but horrible The characters are caricatures The world is nigh incomprehensible who includes a list of jewel ranks and titles broken down by gender , but not a freaking map especially when this place apparently uses interdimensional travel I wish I could feel sympathetic to the characters but they all remind me of a too perfect job inter...For her virgin effort at novel crafting, Anne Bishop has laid down a strong piece of dark fantasy that is richly drawn, psychologically savage and dripping with THROB I am suffering severe mind boggle that this is really her first published work as this story has a high quality quotient and prose that displays real polish This first installment of the Black Jewel s Trilogy introduces us to dark, sexified fantasy world called The Three Realms which are known individually as Terreille, Hell an For her virgin effort at novel crafting, Anne Bishop has laid down a strong piece of dark fantasy that is richly drawn, psychologically savage and dripping with THROB I am suffering severe mind boggle that this is really her first published work as this story has a high quality quotient and prose that displays real polish This first installment of the Black Jewel s Trilogy introduces us to dark, sexified fantasy world called The Three Realms which are known individually as Terreille, Hell and Kaeleer The Realms are not a place ...Let me get straight to the point here I absolutely abhorred this book I had to force myself to finish it I was actually really excited to start it though It s widely acclaimed by critics professionals and goodreads members alike and the plot sounded promising Plus, the idea of a dark fantasy intrigued me And don t get me wrong, I wasn t really disappointed by either of those elements The storyline was okay, and the world of the Blood did prove quite dark.No, what disappointed me was Let me get straight to the point here I absolutely abhorred this book I had to force myself to finish it I was actually really excited to start it though It s widely acclaimed by critics professionals and goodreads members alike and the plot sounded promising Plus, the idea of a dark fantasy intrigued me And don t get me wrong, I wasn t really disappointed by either of those elements The storyline was okay, and the world of the Blood did prove quite dark.No, what disappointed me was Bishop s characterization As I think a few reviewers before me have mentioned, the novel s requisite badasses Daemon and Saetan share the same flaw they re both way to...This book is incredibly awful It s embarrassingly bad The characters with their ridiculous names and the world are poorly developed The author gives us variations of the same scenes again and again Daemon is a sexy threat, dear old dad Saetan is old and tenderhearted, Jaenelle is very powerful and young, everyone else is amazed and afraid and or 110% evil, full stop, no nuance The plot Languishes.I never had a sense of where different realms existed in relation to one another, for all This book is incredibly awful It s embarrassingly bad The characters with their ridiculous names and the world are poorly developed The author gives us variations of the same scenes again and again Daemon is a sexy threat, dear old dad Saetan is old and tenderhearted, Jaenelle is very powerful and young, everyone else is amazed and afraid and or 110% evil, full stop, no nuance The plot Languishes.I never had a sense of where different realms existed in relation to one another, for all of the babbling about webs and gates ho...Welcome to my DNF graveyard a fun and cheerful place to be The social system of the world of the book is matriarchy It seems women in power decided the best use for the men is to keep them as sex slaves I have yet to see a single free man in the part of the book managed to read there are some outside of the world though The injustice is everywhere, but there is a prophecy concerning a coming of The Queen who Will Make Everything Right Every man free and enslaved fall in love not Platon Welcome to my DNF graveyard a fun and cheerful place to be The social system of the world of the book is matriarchy It seems women in power decided the best use for the men is to keep them as sex slaves I have yet to see a single free man in the part of the book managed to read there are some outside of the world though The injustice is everywhere, but there is a prophecy concerning a coming of The Queen who Will Make Everything Right Every man free and enslaved fall in love not Platonic kind with her The only problem at least in my book bad pun intended she is only 12 This was the first problem for me It takes a real master of the level of Vladimir Nabokov to write about pedophilia in such a way ...Things I did not like about this book Proper names the winter solstice holiday is Winsol Satan is Saetan Demon is Daemon Lack of character development Redundant descriptive language Elaborate and pointlessly nonsensical magic schema Crappy plo...Excerpts from a stream of consciousness transcript as I read this series So that s his brother Ah, right, his brother with wings Saetan Sa Diablo For seriousMagical cockring of ObedienceAww, that s actually pretty cute Family togetherness, d aww Ew Ew Ew He just circumcised someone with his teethOh, look, the unicorns just showed up Someone else is in a killing rage, yawn Magical cockring of honorSo he has wings, and also apparent Excerpts from a stream of consciousness transcript as I read this series So that s his brother Ah, right, his brother with wings Saetan Sa Diablo For seriousMagical cockring of ObedienceAww, that s actually pretty cu...2.5 trashy, campy, cheesy, sordid little stars.In grade six, my second best friend and I discovered her mother s V.C Andrews Flowers in the Attic series and we snuck them out the bookshelf and read them in the park while eating chips and drinking lemonade We found those books so enticingly wicked and could not believe all the things we read about NoHardy Boys or Nancy Drew for us all we wanted to do is read adult books and unbeknownst to us that these were the trashiest books out th 2.5 trashy, campy, cheesy, sordid little stars.In grade six, my second best friend and I discovered her mother s V.C Andrews Flowers in the Attic series and we snuck them out the bookshelf and read them in the park while eating chips and drinking lemonade We found those books so enticingly wicked and could not believe all the things we read about NoHardy Boys or Nancy Drew for us all we wanted to do is read adult books and unbeknownst to us that these were the trashiest books out there Ok ok there was Harold Robbins but we didn t discover him until grade seven.Well this book reads very much like VC Andrews mating with Anne Rice who then mates with E.L James The writing was barely adequate at best and highly repetitive The men were constantly steepling their fingers and the women were ...If you like feminist fantasy fiction, this is the series to read Bishop creates a fantasy otherworld unlike any I have read and I ve read quite a bit Bishop s work is highly subversive It develops a female dominant society based on Kipling s reminder the female of the species isdeadly than the male Bishop does no...

Daughter of the Blood (The Black Jewels #1)
  • English
  • 11 November 2017
  • Mass Market Paperback
  • 412 pages
  • 0451456718
  • Anne Bishop
  • Daughter of the Blood (The Black Jewels #1)