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No matter how many old stories a person knows, there is no preparation for finding yourself right in the middle of one.

This can’t be truer for our main characters Blackthorn and Grim. This time they find themselves is a tale that is a little bit of a mash up of Beauty and the Beast with Sleeping Beauty with some twists and a few little people. I like the fairytale aspect of this story, how it feels like a story within a story. But we the reader only learn small parts at a time and have to be patient to get to the ending and learn the moral and peril of the story along with Blackthorn and Grim.

I have to say that I love Blackthorn and Grim together. They both have extreme trauma in their pasts and have found a friendship and balance with one another. But dare I hope that it is growing into more than friendship…I dare, oh I dare. I ship them so much and really hope that both can heal a little from the past to be able to move on with the other. But still it is good to see how they have grown together and understand the other.

Grim is the best! He is the kindest soul and just the giving way he thinks about Blackthorn is fantastic. He is always giving when it comes to her and always kind. No matter if he might be a little jealous that a man from her past has found her and they can’t spend as much time together he is happy that she is happy.

“About happy endings. Folk like a story to finish well. Doesn’t matter if that’s true to life or not. Helps to hear about folk being content. About good folk getting what they deserve. While you’re listening you can believe, for a bit, that you’re good too. Worth a happy ending.”

Blackthorn again struggles with the promise made to Fey creature Conmael to help any who ask and not leave the borders of the land she is in for seven years. She still has a strong desired to see Mathuin, the man who destroyed her entire life punished and she will again struggle with the need for vengeance and the right thing to do.

Some of this was dark. Grim’s feelings about his own past and the struggle he has dealing with it. His feelings of not being enough for Blackthorn. But there is always hope and I loved how this story progressed not only the character development of Grim and Blackthorn but also the overall plot of Mathuin.

This is a slow rolling story with a lot of character development and so it won’t be for everyone. There is no Disney HEA either if that is what you are looking for. But there is a fairytale feel and it isn’t quite a Grim fairytale either. I’m happy to be in the in-between with Grim and Blackthorn yet again. After the ending I’m holding out a lot of hope that those two will find their way from this friendship to something much much deeper. Because they of course deserve a little, not a lot of happy after all that they have been through.


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Tower of Thorns Blackthorn Grim Juliet Marillier 9780451467010 Books Reviews

The story is solid and the premise good, although there are few surprises in the main plot due to the periodic flashbacks. That makes for a significant flaw, as the reader is *not* in the thick of Blackthorn's struggle to uncover what's going on -- just waiting for her to catch up. There *is* a surprising twist independent of that. However... in order to get there, you have to wade through a bunch of Blackthorn fretting over her vow vs. her revenge and writing off Grim as "he'll be fine without me" when she's had abundant evidence that that is not at all the case! After having spent the last book's character development on that very issue, it was pretty aggravating to find that Blackthorn hadn't progressed at all. So while this story was solid, the plotting okay, the writing good... the lack of character progression made it not so much a pleasure to read.
The best part of Tower of Thorns is the great leading characters. I really like Blackthorn. She is smart, tough, emotional, not young, and very, very flawed. I love Grim, who desperately loves Blackthorn even more that he realizes. I appreciate that Grim is much smarter that people give him credit for. As a pair, Blackthorn and Grim are underestimated and therefore, the best at solving mysteries.

In Tower of Thorns, the mystery is the tower itself. And the creature in the tower. Blackthorn sets out to determine how to break the curse. Breaking the curse should appease the creature and bring peace to the land. Blackthorn tries to unravel what everyone in the district, including some taciturn fae, have told her (or not told her) about the legend associated with the tower. Meanwhile, Grim watches from the background in his own unassuming way, collecting his own important clues. This unlikely partnership is currently my favorite pair of fictional detectives.

Even though I absolutely knew that there was information being withheld and Blackthorn did not have all the details; even though I was expecting a horrible realization when the truth was revealed; there was an audible gasp from me the moment that it happened. I LOVE surprises.

The three-narrator audiobook version makes the story even more amazing. With separate narrators (Natalie Gold, Nick Sullivan and Susannah Jones) for three different points of view – Blackthorn, Grim and Geiléis, the story comes alive and is very difficult to turn off.

Juliett Marillier is an amazing storyteller. The Blackthorn & Grim series has truly captured my imagination. Tower of Thorns is for the person who enjoys characters with depth, a multi-faceted story with surprises and a very satisfying ending.
No matter how many old stories a person knows, there is no preparation for finding yourself right in the middle of one.

This can’t be truer for our main characters Blackthorn and Grim. This time they find themselves is a tale that is a little bit of a mash up of Beauty and the Beast with Sleeping Beauty with some twists and a few little people. I like the fairytale aspect of this story, how it feels like a story within a story. But we the reader only learn small parts at a time and have to be patient to get to the ending and learn the moral and peril of the story along with Blackthorn and Grim.

I have to say that I love Blackthorn and Grim together. They both have extreme trauma in their pasts and have found a friendship and balance with one another. But dare I hope that it is growing into more than friendship…I dare, oh I dare. I ship them so much and really hope that both can heal a little from the past to be able to move on with the other. But still it is good to see how they have grown together and understand the other.

Grim is the best! He is the kindest soul and just the giving way he thinks about Blackthorn is fantastic. He is always giving when it comes to her and always kind. No matter if he might be a little jealous that a man from her past has found her and they can’t spend as much time together he is happy that she is happy.

“About happy endings. Folk like a story to finish well. Doesn’t matter if that’s true to life or not. Helps to hear about folk being content. About good folk getting what they deserve. While you’re listening you can believe, for a bit, that you’re good too. Worth a happy ending.”

Blackthorn again struggles with the promise made to Fey creature Conmael to help any who ask and not leave the borders of the land she is in for seven years. She still has a strong desired to see Mathuin, the man who destroyed her entire life punished and she will again struggle with the need for vengeance and the right thing to do.

Some of this was dark. Grim’s feelings about his own past and the struggle he has dealing with it. His feelings of not being enough for Blackthorn. But there is always hope and I loved how this story progressed not only the character development of Grim and Blackthorn but also the overall plot of Mathuin.

This is a slow rolling story with a lot of character development and so it won’t be for everyone. There is no Disney HEA either if that is what you are looking for. But there is a fairytale feel and it isn’t quite a Grim fairytale either. I’m happy to be in the in-between with Grim and Blackthorn yet again. After the ending I’m holding out a lot of hope that those two will find their way from this friendship to something much much deeper. Because they of course deserve a little, not a lot of happy after all that they have been through.