Reviews for Lord of the Beasts

The average rating for Lord of the Beasts based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-06-17 00:00:00 Radka Geserick Well... Hmmmm.... I'm conflicted. There was much of the story I enjoyed, some sweet laugh out loud moments of thoughts shared with the animals and in general I like the main male lead Donal, the half blood son of of Lord Hern the fae lord... But I didn't like the lead female much which is definitely a problem in a love story. I didn't want things to work out in the end for them. I didn't think she was worth Donal having to give up his fae gift of being able to speak with and help the animals of the human world. There also is a lot of berating mankind as evil beings who mostly do harm to the animal world and too much attaching human emotions and human concepts to animal thinking. Oh I am an animal lover don't get me wrong and I am the first to admit that my Chihuahua is brilliant! But I'm afraid reality is we are all of the animal kingdom but humans are as far as I know at the top of the intelligence list and the only ones who are capeable of complex emotion. Krinard did a lot of speaking for the animals, having Donal go in to their memories of how cruel humans tortured And captured them and that they were unable to survive or thrive at least in captivity because they all remembered what it was like to live free in the wild. It got so much at one point I skimmed over the italic parts (Which was the animals memories,) moving back into the main story. With the first book The Forest Lord I routed for the love to conquer all and the HEA that was meant for the main lovers of the story. I couldn't do that here. The story did however have a few little plot twists to keep it interesting as well as some major storie errors that shouldve been picked up in edititing. Normally I can overlook these things if Im relating to the caracters. But alas it became a disappointment to me, a major annoyance. It did wrap up better than I thought it could have for the most part so I am glad that I made through to the end. Even though the end also brought about some odd twists I think the author had to contrive ro give ALL her players a HEA. I noticed that as well with the first book everyone ended up happy so maybe that her thing. All in all I'm not sorry I read it however I wouldn't recommend it to anyone as a book that should be read. Krinard has great imagination and is very good as what she does the story certainly had enough to make me want to read ro the end.... And I enjoyed her writing style. I'm even going to pick up the 3rd book in this Fane series Lord of Legends and finish where I left off because I remember having liked the begining of it but not knowing any background of the Fane it left me a bit confused... so I had put it down... Now I would like to see if knowing more will enhance it any for me... Either that or I'm just a glutton for punishment! LOL

Review # 2 was written on 2011-08-30 00:00:00 Guernina Hamza I really liked this book. This is the first in this series that I've read. I want to read the others too now. I liked the story line and the emphasis on the characters learning about themselves and how the book showed the characters point of view and not just the point of view of one person throughout the book. My favorite thing about this book was the communication with animals. It made me realize that we are more similar and more different at the same time. anyway, that was my philosophical moment for the week. Enjoy