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Title: Not a Black Jewels clone.
Review: After thoroughly enjoying "The Black Jewels" novels I was delighted to see that Anne Bishop had released another series. The Tir Alainn Trilogy is perhaps not as entertaining as her earlier novels but still worth reading. Anne Bishop discloses a slightly more serious side in this novel and her characters are not quite as sympathetic as the "Black Jewels" family. She has tried to flesh out her new characters by making them more tragic and bleak (a Shakespearian effort) but has missed building our empathy and involvement in them and their story by a fine margin. House of Gaian (and the Tir Alainn Trilogy) is still vintage Anne Bishop and far better than her later efforts of "Sebastion" and Belladonna".
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