Flame of Sevenwaters (Sevenwaters #6) by Juliet Marillier
narrated by, Rosalyn Landor
We are back at Sevenwaters, Finbar is now a boy of 7 or 8 and
seems to have a few lasting effects of his time in the otherworld with Mac Dara
, also Maeve, daughter of Lord Sean who was badly burned as a child in Fianne’s
story comes back to Sevenwaters after 10 years spent in the house of Liadan &
Bran. It is tough on her because she has very limited use of her hands and her
face is scarred and at Harrowfield she wasn’t an oddity because she has always
been there but back at Sevenwaters people stare and talk behind her back. Plus she
is having a hard time reconnecting with her mother who just wants to pretend
the last 10 years didn’t exist or to see the strong woman her daughter has
become. Maeve has a way with animals, it is her gift.
Maeve & Finbar are both feeling a bit constrained in the
house Finbar is under constant guard and doesn’t seem to be able to do anything
a normal child of his age can do and Maeve used to having freedom to be outside
in stables or just outside period is having a very hard time sitting in the
ladies sewing room with her mother and the other women of the house since she
can’t sew since her hands are burnt up.
I enjoyed the budding friendship between Finbar & Maeve
neither has ever had their siblings around very much so it was neat to see them
become so close.
There is a bit of formula to this one but since Marillier is
such a great writer I chose to overlook that. There is finally a ending to the
Mac Dara story but not in the way you may have thought it would end but I wish
there would have been more of Cathal & Clodagh and even though we have been
working up to this conclusion for a few books I still felt it was a little
rushed and wished we had seen Ciaran’s entire journey and Cathal’s journey back.
There is a death at the beginning of this book that is sad for fans of Daughter
of the Forest but it makes a true ending of that story.
As always Rosalyn Landor’s narration was well done, I like
that she made Maeve sound a bit different than everyone else at Sevenwaters after all she has been living in Britain
at Harrowfield so she would have a different accent .
Even though this isn’t my favorite Sevenwaters book it was
still worth 4 stars.
4 Stars
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