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Jacqueline Carey, New York Times bestselling author of the Kushiel's Legacy series, delivers book two in her new lushly imagined trilogy featuring daughter of Alba, Moirin.
NAAMAH'S CURSE
Far from the land of her birth, Moirin sets out across Tatar territory to find Bao, the proud and virile Ch'in fighter who holds the missing half of her diadh-anam, the divine soul-spark of her mother's people. After a long ordeal, she not only succeeds, but surrenders to a passion the likes of which she's never known. But the lovers' happiness is short lived, for Bao is entangled in a complication that soon leads to their betrayal.
- Sales Rank: #825124 in Books
- Published on: 2010-06-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.75" w x 6.50" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 576 pages
From Publishers Weekly
In this sequel to 2009's Naamah's Kiss, Moirin, the devoted servant of a sex goddess, journeys across half of a fantasy version of Asia in search of her soulmate, Bao. In Tatar territory, she finds Bao... and his wife. His father-in-law, the Great Khan, is willing to go to great extremes to keep Bao and Moirin apart. Captured by the fanatic Patriarch of Riva, Moirin escapes to find that Bao has vanished again, this time headed toward the distant lair of the Spider Queen and her army of assassins. The romantic tale is marred by Moirin's narcissistic awareness that she is destined for a glorious fate that lesser mortals like Bao's jealous wife may only envy. Carey's storytelling ability is top-notch, however, and readers will applaud her willingness to resolve major plot threads in the middle book of a trilogy. (June)
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From Booklist
Still chasing her destiny in the sequel to Naamah's Kiss (2009), Moirin follows the urging of her diadh-anam across Tatar territory, looking for Bao, her Ch'in lover, who holds the other half of her divine soul-spark. She finds him married to the Great Khan's daughter, and their plans to smooth this wrinkle go disastrously wrong when the Great Khan arranges to have Moirin kidnapped by fanatical, pious Vralians, while Bao is led into the lands of the Spider Queen. Though this book is packed with new people, new lands, and new gods, the pacing is slow and the tone reflective. Carey's involving depictions of several religions also grow rather pointed. While Bao is never present long enough to gain depth, Moirin grows in strength and compassion, confronting several interesting crossroads in her faith and her way of life. Despite a “middle book” feel, series fans will love it, and an ominous warning about Raphael de Merliot, whom Moirin must “reckon with,” gives us something to look forward to in the next book. --Krista Hutley
Review
"Carey's storytelling ability is top-notch...and [listeners] will applaud her willingness to resolve major plot threads in the middle book of a trilogy." ---Publishers Weekly
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168 of 180 people found the following review helpful.
Is "Naamah" cursed?
By Ashley Megan
When Jacqueline Carey released "Kushiel's Scion," the first of the Imriel trilogy, I admit to being a little worried. I wasn't sure she could pull off the shift away from Phedre no Delaunay de Montreve, the inimitable and incomparable heroine of the first trilogy of the Kushiel's Legacy series. Well, I was wrong, and Imriel's trilogy turned out to be brilliant. Then she started a third trilogy, and once again I was apprehensive. After "Naamah's Kiss," I wasn't entirely reassured, but I still held onto hope for Moirin's story.
After "Naamah's Curse," that hope is crushed.
I can't put my finger on the exact moment when I realized that everything had gone horribly, horribly wrong, but I do know that every time I picked up this book, the spark of anticipation was weaker, and every time I set it down the disappointment was stronger. I kept waiting for it to pull me in, to entice me, seduce me, to just make me care about these characters. It never did.
By far the greatest sin in "Naamah's Curse", greater than the ridiculous plot contrivances and deus ex machinas, greater than the senseless bouncing around from location to location, greater than the little editorial errors that signal a rush to print, is that the characters here are unbelievable, flat, and one-dimensional. Now, I was never a fan of Bao - my last review described him as a poor man's Joscelin. Well, after this book, I take that back - it's offensive to both Joscelin and poor men. The various minor characters are your basic stock archetypes - the evil religious fanatic, the wide-eyed naïf, the enlightened ruler.
And Moirin? Moirin, who could have been the most unique and fascinating D'Angeline protagonist to date? Moirin, alas, has become the most dreaded and disappointing character of all: the Mary Sue. The girl raised in isolation in the wild who is suddenly an expert on haggling, languages, and trade. The girl whose sexual innocence was so endearing who has suddenly turned into a worldly version of the hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold. The girl who is beautiful and smart and resourceful and popular and strong and has magic powers and whom everyone - except the reader - seems to adore. Gag me.
What about the plot? Well, the strongest section of the book is set in Vralia, which when last we left it had begun the transition to martial Yeshuite power. In the intervening centuries, we are told that a schism has arisen between the followers of a gentler faith, led by Rebbe Avraham ben David and influenced by the martyrdom of the Maghuin Donne shapeshifter Berlik, and a harsher, proselytizing creed obsessed with rooting out sin and purging the world of witchcraft and heathenism. Now, my view has always been that in Carey's alternate history, the two points of departure which had the greatest effect on creating a better world than ours were, respectively, the presence of Elua and the absence of St. Paul. In Pyotr, the Patriarch of Riva, Carey has given us her universe's St. Paul, Augustine of Hippo, and the Spanish Inquisition (bet you didn't expect that!) all in one. He manages to get his hands on Moirin, and, well, you can imagine. This is the only part of "Naamah's Curse" which had any sense of historical relevancy, moral quandary, personal culpability, or any suggestion at all that a major character might be in very real danger. Parts of it were painful to read and had me really worried for Moirin - in many ways, it was like the Darsanga episode in "Kushiel's Avatar."
Sadly, we are gone far too soon from Vralia as Moirin sets out - again - to find Bao, this time across the Himalayas and into Bhodistan. Which development, rather than filling me with awe at her determination and the power of their true love, merely left me shaking my head and sighing "Honey, I hate to break it to you, but Bao is Just Not That Into You." Has any Carey pairing resulted in so little chemistry as these two? I have more enthusiastic reunions with my cat after a day at work than Moirin and Bao can manage after months apart. Seriously, I would rather have seen Phedre hook up with Barquiel L'Envers than watch Moirin follow Bao around for one more minute. Imriel and Claudia Fulvia made a better couple than these two. Moirin, DTMFA.
And the sex? Well, it turns out Lady Gaga had it right after all: "Baby when it's love if it's not rough it isn't fun." The eroticism here is distinctly of the tame Harlequin variety, with plenty of heaving and throbbing but none of the originality or naughty playfulness of either Phedre or Imriel's amorous encounters. Moirin seems to view sex as a fun pastime - which is, of course, perfectly fine, but it lacks, shall we say, any poetry. Sex scenes in the previous books were always either hot, emotionally charged, or (best of all) both. Sex scenes in this book are, well, predictable. Vanilla. And the relationships involved are strictly of the friends-with-benefits variety, which in real life is all well and good, but who wants to read about what amounts to a series of pity-lays?
In short, "Naamah's Curse" was a horrible disappointment. I hate writing these reviews of Jacqueline Carey books, I really do. I thought she had gotten all her hack writing out with "Banewreaker," but it appears there was still some left. This is hideously depressing to me. I simply can't understand how this book went so wrong, and I honestly don't see how the series is going to turn around again. "Curse," indeed.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Four Stars
By Erika
I really enjoyed the continuation of this story but of course was not as good as the previous ones.
38 of 42 people found the following review helpful.
Disappointed fan.
By BrynnFlynn
Like a few other reviewers, I had high hopes for this book. Moirin, while not my favorite narrator, felt like she had some spark to her, some reason to struggle, to fight, to grow, and to be alive. Unfortunately, the revival of Bao at the end of the first book meant the death of Moirin in the second.
I understand, or at least I like to think I understand, what Carey was going for. She'd already created a ground-breaking character in the form of Phedre, and completely enchanted me with Imriel's tale (despite a rocky start in the likability polls). For the third series, she needed to shake things up a bit. Back to writing a woman? Great, she's had time to mature as a writer and bring it all together. Phedre and the others left in the annals of history? Excellent, removes the temptation to bring them into a story they would overwhelm. Resist the Mary-Sue temptation to make her a direct descendant? Eeeengh, not quite; although she's not directly related to the Delaunay clan, it's close enough to make me wonder if there's a draft out there with her as a great-great-granddaughter.
So Moirin's different enough to quiet the fans... or is she? In the first book Carey did a decent job giving Moirin her own life, but the moment sex entered the tale it all went down hill. Globe-trotting Moirin just can't help herself, hopping into bed with just about everyone in the first book, a trend that continued into the second. If anything Moirin's tales should be called "Eiseth's Travels", because damn if Moirin doesn't manage to come up with an excuse for every single liason. Half D'Angeline boy who's terrified of sex? A little coitus'll fix that right up. Woman with evil stone got Moirin's panties in a twist? The nearest queen will do. It got to the point where I started evaluating new characters as either "will do" "won't do" or "might do", and trust me when I say that's not a good sign.
As if her sexual escapades weren't mundane enough, throughout the book I discovered reference after reference to Phedre. "If only I were as good at languages as her", "but I can't possibly be diplomatic enough like she was"... Carey couldn't make up her mind whether or not she wanted to actually tell Moirin's story or convince herself she wasn't just copying Phedre as much as she could. It reminded me (and I shudder to think it) of Twilight, with Bella's insistence throughout that she's just not as cool, or beautiful, or elegant, or clever as the other girls.
While it was wonderful to return to the world of the D'Angelines and to do a little world exploring, Moirin is sadly trailing off into obscurity. While Carey may yet be able to salvage her as a character, I fear it is too late to rescue this damsel from her distressing fate.
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