Fortune and Fate
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Average rating3.4
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Ratings5
Average rating3.4
The compelling new novel in the national bestselling “superior fantasy series” (Publishers Weekly).National bestselling author Sharon Shinn’s “lyrical and entertaining” (Kirkus Reviews) Twelve Houses books have captivated readers and critics alike with their irresistible cocktail of fantasy, romance, and adventure. Now Shinn returns with a new novel set in the same world, where a troubled Warrior Rider named Wen faces her greatest challenge in the last place she ever expected: behind the walls of a great family estate known as Fortune, where Wen has been hired to guard the young heiress. Once there, she will find that fate has other plans for her...
Series
5 primary booksTwelve Houses is a 5-book series with 5 primary works first released in 2005 with contributions by Sharon Shinn.
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It's possible I got old between the other Twelve Houses books and this. I remember the Twelve Houses as charming old-school fantasy novels with great character growth and setting development. Fortune and Fate feels like a fanfic of that: Wen is a character who has been totally present all along, don't you remember she was Justin's BFF? And the Queen loves her so much she won't replace her even though she went missing? So, since she's totally a central character we know and love, here's her story, with ample name-dropping of the (actual) main characters and a side plot about the actual main characters that's completely unrelated. So, yeah, as a Gillengaria novel this fails – and there are more loose threads than I could handle on that end: “there's so much more crime in the Southern lands than there has been, let's investigate.” That ended up being completely dropped. “What if people aren't still loyal to the queen?” Oh well, everyone loves Cammon, so should be fine.
On the other hand, Wen's story was sweet, if predictable. There's room in my life for a cozy old-school fantasy about female warriors.
