May. 1st, 2008

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Title: Ambergate
Author: Patricia Elliott
Published: New York: Little Brown and Company, 2007 (2005)
Rating: 2 of 5
Page Count: 390
Total Page Count: 49,621
Text Number: 143
Read For: continuing a series, checked out from the library
Short review: Ambergate is the sequel to Murkmere, and picks up approximately where the first book left off, but with a new narrator: The servant Scruff has never had a real name, and came to Murkmere after committing a crime in the Capital. When soldiers come looking for her, she must flee, beginning a journey that leads her back to the Capital, towards Leah, and into the heart of a revolution against the country's ruling government and religion. After Murkmere I came to this book hoping to find Murkmere's atmospheric sense of magic and more mature writing, since this is Elliott's second book. Unfortunately, Ambergate is a step down: magic is fleeing and unexplored, Scruff fails to be a compelling protagonist, and Elliott's style is disjointed by constant changes in point of view. It is a disappointing sequel, and drags down both books in the series. I don't recommend it.

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Review posted here at Amazon.com.

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