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Original Title:	The Lady of the Sorrows: The Bitterbynde Book II (The Bitterbynde, Book 2)
ISBN:	0330489569 (ISBN13: 9780330489560)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Bitterbynde #2

The Lady of the Sorrows (The Bitterbynde #2) Paperback | Pages: 611 pages

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I'm giving up on this series. I wanted to re-read it because I loved it a lot the first two times I read it (when I was still in my fantasy stage of reading), and I needed to read something that didn't require any thought, but wow, it's boring.

The author seems to think that writing in a deadpan, old-fashioned style studded liberally with uncommon words makes for beautiful prose. I beg to differ. She also spends inordinate amounts of time describing food, clothing, furniture, banquets and other such things, in a most repetitious fashion.

The plot's not bad, as such (actually I was pleasantly surprised), and neither are the characters - though why do people always become boring as soon as they find beauty and wealth? The Irish fairy tales sprinkled throughout the plot are interesting, but often there are just too many of them, and when combined with the yawn-inducing pages and pages of description, there's just not enough happening.

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Title	:	The Lady of the Sorrows (The Bitterbynde #2)
Author	:	Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 611 pages
Published	:	2003 by Tor (first published April 24th 2002)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction

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I thoroughly enjoyed following our heroine through a completely different challenge in this book. I enjoyed the atmosphere of the first book more, but found myself more connected to the characters in this one. Loved it!

3.75 stars, rounding up.Some little things bugged me about the writing--the multiplicity of aliases this main character goes through, her obsession with Thorne (which was over the top enough to bug me despite my normal enjoyment of romance subplots), Thorne's true identity, the unnecessary fashion descriptions, the hodge-podge way of chucking in every British/Celtic folk story the author thought of, the practically straight regurgitation of the Pied Piper of Hamelin (though I did appreciate how

Rohaine, newly restored to her beauty and memories, quests for the sleeping Faerie king, who alone can restore a land devastated by a millenium of unconstrained magic.

The writer of this book is definitely talented, but was too enamored of her own powers of description for my taste. Many of the descriptive passages were beautifully poetic, but I often found myself admiring her turns of phrase while wanting her to get on with the story already! Yes, Cecilia, you're a poet and you know it, but did you really have to bring the story to a halt while you spent a whole page on exactly how the light fell on a pool of water, or listed all 263 tools in a character's

I bought the first book in the bitter bind trilogy at a used book store, I enjoyed it enough to continue the story. However, I don't have a lot of time for reading when school is in session, so I bought the audio version. This highlighted some flaws in the writing style that I hadn't noticed when I had been reading. Ms. Thornton, while weaving an intriguing plot, could have cut out about a quarter to a third of her novel by reducing the verbiage. I like it when authors paint a picture for me,

I'm having a love/hate relationship with this series.On the one hand, it's a good story with interesting stuff happening.On the other hand, OMG WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE GET THIS WOMAN AN EDITOR?! Seriously, if she can use 7 words to describe something instead of one? She will use NINE just in case. On both of the books I've read so far I have had to adopt a "skimming" style of reading just to get through the overabundance of verbiage.Every time I'm on the verge of putting the book down, though,

I like it.