About this title: National bestselling author Shinn returns with a new novel, in which a troubled Warrior Rider named Wen faces her greatest challenge in the last place she had ever expected--behind the walls of a great family estate.
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Publisher: Ace Hardcover
Date Published: 2008-11-04
ISBN-13:9780441016365ISBN:0441016367
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ace Books, East Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2008
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Date Published: 2008
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ace Hardcover
Date Published: 2008-11-04
ISBN-13:9780441016365ISBN:0441016367
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780441017751ISBN:0441017754
Description: National bestselling author Shinn returns with a new novel, in which a troubled Warrior Rider named Wen faces her greatest challenge in the last place she had ever expected--behind the walls of a great family estate. read more
"Moving off from the stories of the original six characters, this one takes on the story of what happened to Wen after the war. It's nice to have a fresh set of characters and political challenges, although I'm getting tired of the royal-progression plot device. The romance felt more tacked-on than usual, but Shinn was cramming a lot into one book here."
"After King Bayrn was killed during the uprisings led by houses Fortunalt and Gisseltess two years previous, Kings Rider Wen has felt nothing but regret and guilt for letting the king be killed while under her protection. Unable to face her fellow Riders, she refrained from swearing allegiance to Queen Amalie and instead set off in search of redemption - by aiding anyone in need of help. In her travels Wen rescues young Kayrrn Fortunalt - serramarra and future marlady of Fortunalt - from a young man trying to force her into marriage. Finding Wen to be particularly handy with a sword, Kayrrn and her bookish guardian Jasper Palladar ask Wen to stay on at the underprotected Fortune to train a house guard for the serramarra. Feeling a need to keep moving, Wen only agrees to stay at Fortune for a short time, all the while becoming more and more attached to the people of Fortune - especially the serramarra and Jasper.
Back in Gosenhall, Cammon - the Queen's consort - has decided to take a tour of the southern houses and has asked Senneth(!), Tayse, and numerous other soldiers and Riders to accompany him on his journey. I was thrilled to see a new Cammon - one who could easily navigate court politics while simultaneously glad-handing every man, woman, and child they passed on the road. Gone are the days of his complete cluelessness (which I sort of missed), but Cammon can always be counted on to watch out for even the most seemingly insignificant person.
This fifth installment in Sharon Shinn's much loved Twelve Houses series was full of adventure and the loyalty and love that I've come to expect from her characters. This book does depart from the others in that it was much slower moving with more inner character development and less constant and often explosive action. Which was not a bad thing. I quickly grew to love Wen in all her guilt-ridden but selfless heroism. Fantastic writing with nary a hitch."
"Truthfully I didn't want to read this because I found so much closure in the 4th book. I am glad that I did. After spending so much time with the close family in the first four books, I wasn't thrilled to carry the series on with an undeveloped character. It was, again not surprisingly, a beautiful story and I enjoyed it very much. Shinn is a fantastic story teller that doesn't bog down the essence of the story with heavy passages or pointless tangents. I would have liked it much better if the main characters in the series were more involved but still, a good book."
"Sigh. I guess I went into Fortune and Fate with high expectations, and was kind of disappointed. While I was reading Reader and Raelynx I knew that Wen would be the main character of Fortune and Fate, so I tried to pay a little more attention to her in R&R, and was kind of curious to see what her story would hold. This story picks up two years after the final war in R&R, following Wen on her journey of self-discovery. She has passed her time saving anyone she comes across on her aimless travels. That is how she meets up with Karryn, a serramarra who has been kidnapped. Once Wen saves the day she soon takes up a job working as Karryn's professional guard.
Wen's character just didn't do anything for me. She was too manish, and had no famine qualities at all. She was all business all the time and for me was a bit too harsh. Senneth, Kirra, Amalie and Ellynor all are powerful, strong women and still they are women. You can see that they each have their own charm and still maintain a certain amount of femininity. Wen is just too much a tomboy for my taste. I just couldn't relate to her. And as for her relationship with Jasper, I have only one word...yawn. I didn't feel any chemistry between the two, and frankly I don't really see what he sees in her.
I love the Twelve House series and will probably consider R&R the final book in the series and this more of a companion novel. I just didn't really see the point of this book. Maybe if she had placed the story way in the future with all new characters it would have been different, but for me it was missing the magic of the other books."
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