Marillier, Juliet - Foxmask
Sun, Sep. 19th, 2004 04:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterUnfortunately, my favorite book of hers remains Child of the Prophecy, largely because the heroine of that book is not the embodiment of light and goodness and has to struggle with herself. Not that Foxmask is a bad book, it is just sort of there in the mediocre category, which is disappointing when I know the author can do better.
Foxmask, like the Sevenwaters trilogy, follows the story of the family that started in Wolfskin, and I enjoy how there are generational differences and repurcussions of the choices of the first book. I'm not as impressed with the view of Eyvind and Nessa's family as I was with Sorcha's in Sevenwaters, because Eyvind and company are quite firmly positioned on the Good end of things, which is boring. Mostly it's about Creidhe, Nessa and Eyvind's daughter, and Thorvald, Somerled's son, and what happens when Thorvald is determined to set out to find his father and Creidhe follows him.
While I was interested in Thorvald's story, I got a little sick of his thinking all the time that the blood of this father he had never known would completely influence him, though I think the author was a little sick of it by the end as well, as she had a character point out that Thorvald actually much resembled his mother. Also, Thorvald's journey and transformation were in the end much more interesting than Creidhe. I spent a good half of the book getting thoroughly sick of everyone for some reason thinking that Creidhe was a goddess-like figure who was the embodiment of everything beautiful and good when mostly she just seemed like a normal girl.
I'm hoping that the next book Marillier writes manages to step out of the pattern she's established of having too-good-to-be-true heroines, because while I did like Sorcha in Daughter of the Forest and Fainne in Child of the Prophecy, Nessa and Liadan and Creidhe annoy me.
Foxmask, like the Sevenwaters trilogy, follows the story of the family that started in Wolfskin, and I enjoy how there are generational differences and repurcussions of the choices of the first book. I'm not as impressed with the view of Eyvind and Nessa's family as I was with Sorcha's in Sevenwaters, because Eyvind and company are quite firmly positioned on the Good end of things, which is boring. Mostly it's about Creidhe, Nessa and Eyvind's daughter, and Thorvald, Somerled's son, and what happens when Thorvald is determined to set out to find his father and Creidhe follows him.
While I was interested in Thorvald's story, I got a little sick of his thinking all the time that the blood of this father he had never known would completely influence him, though I think the author was a little sick of it by the end as well, as she had a character point out that Thorvald actually much resembled his mother. Also, Thorvald's journey and transformation were in the end much more interesting than Creidhe. I spent a good half of the book getting thoroughly sick of everyone for some reason thinking that Creidhe was a goddess-like figure who was the embodiment of everything beautiful and good when mostly she just seemed like a normal girl.
I'm hoping that the next book Marillier writes manages to step out of the pattern she's established of having too-good-to-be-true heroines, because while I did like Sorcha in Daughter of the Forest and Fainne in Child of the Prophecy, Nessa and Liadan and Creidhe annoy me.
Tags: