Son of the Shadows (Sevenwaters #2) by Juliet Marillier
narrated by, Rosalyn Landor
About 15 years have passed since the end of Daughter of the
Forest Sorcha and Red have 3 children twins Sean & Liadan, and Niamh, Sean
is being groomed to take over Sevenwaters, Liadan is a healer much like her
mother and Niamh seems to be the spoiled pretty girl who will marry to further
the families allies, but she has other ideas when a druid named Ciaran comes to
Sevenwaters he and Niamh start a secret affair, but this will not go well and
if you paid attention to ending of Daughter of the Forest you will know why this
relationship cannot go on. When the family finds out about this she is sent off
to marry a chieftain who may not be as good a man as the family thinks he is!
Liadan is kidnapped by the mysterious and dangerous Painted
Man to heal one of his brethren as she spends more time with this band of men
she sees a different side of this man than she previously thought, since he won’t
tell her his name she decides to call him Bran and she falls in love with him
they have one night of passion and then he finds out who her father is and
sends her home. As you can guess the night of passion has resulted in a child.
So now you have the gist of what this installment is about.
There were times I really like Liadan I liked her strength
at becoming a single mother when that kind of thing was not done however I questioned
her thinking when she took her baby into enemy territory to rescue Bran and his
man Gull, I mean really who would do that when you have a whole house full of family
and servants, so why in the world would you strap your baby on your back for a
dangerous rescue mission.
There are parts of this book that are very sad for lovers of
the first Sevenwaters book Daughter of the Forest , including the reveals comes of just who Bran actually is
and why he has such a grudge against Liadan’s father Hugh of Harrowfield, I
thought this one did a great job of bringing us up to date on the characters from
the first book but also moving on from them to the next generation.
Rosalyn Landor narrated this one and if you follow my
reviews you know she is a favorite of mine and this was no exception. As always,
she does a great job with nice accents and variations between characters.
This was a re-read I read this book years ago and re-read on
audio and maybe didn’t like Liadan as much as I remembered.
4 Stars
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