Bosque Mar just won’t die. No, seriously, after five damn
books of fighting this asshole, the guy just won’t leave this world alone.
Snakeroot takes place right after Bloodrose, only instead of
following Calla, it follows Adne, Ren’s sister, as she deals with the fallout
of the last battle with Bosque Mar. It turns out that even though we assumed
that Adne and Connor were going to live happily ever after, Adne is having
nightmares and these nightmares aren’t pretty. They’re scaring her and everyone
else around her.
Logan Bane – the Keeper who ran off in Bloodrose – seems to
be plotting something. Apparently, feeling bad for summoning Bosque Mar to his
undoing, he’s trying to make things right and reopen the Rift. I didn’t really
care for his character in the original trilogy and man, did I really hate this
guy in this book. I literally said out loud a few times, “Oh, look who finally
decided to grow a backbone,” etc. However, I will give Logan this, his first
act of magic brought the spirit of Ren back, which in my book is a good thing.
I still hate the fact that he was killed in the last book and with him being
brought back in this one, even if it is as a spirit, sort of redeems Logan…
Until he kills one of his Keeper friends and tries to sway
Sarah – Shay’s mom – to bring him a box by promising her that he might be able
to bring Shay back to her. Speaking of Sarah, have I mentioned yet how much I
hated her? No? Well, I really did. I get where she was coming from – she hasn’t
seen her son in years, and when she’s finally reunited with him it’s only for,
like, a minute before he permanently becomes a wolf – but couldn’t she see that
he chose to become a wolf? He chose
to be with Calla and the others.
The book ends with Adne going off with Logan to see Bosque
Mar and the Searchers experiencing another
upheaval. Seriously, what is the point of Conatus? There is always an usurp of
power going on. I thought these guys were supposed to be the good guys? Anyway,
it took my a while to try and figure out just where Cremer was going with this
book, and in reality I’m still not a hundred percent sure. My theory is that
Adne is somehow the reincarnation of Eira – that’s the only way I can explain
the whole dream Adne had where Bosque Mar was touching her and telling her
about the son she was carrying.
Final Rating: 3 out of 5 stars. Cremer’s writing is still
fantastic, but seemed to be lacking the awesomeness that was in the prequel
series. Not to mention the characters didn’t really jump off the page like they
did in the previous five books, and I’m still not sure just where she’s going
with this book.
Bookshelf worthy? If you’re the kind of person who has to
own every book in a series, good or bad, then yes. Otherwise, I’d try your
local library.
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