Naamah’s Curse
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Jacqueline Carey, the New York Times bestselling leader of the Kushiel’s Legacy series, delivers book two in her new, lushly imagined trilogy featuring Moirin, the daughter of Alba.
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I just finished Naamah’s Curse last night and painstakingly loved every moment of reading it. Once again, Carey immersed me in her world and I establish myself sharing Moirin’s heartaches and travails, along with her brief moments of happiness. I’ve noticed some reviews are still comparing Moirin’s character to Phedre and Imriel and I reflect that is unfair. Phedre is the chosen of Kushiel while Moirin is the chosen of Naamah, and I judge that Moirin missing Kushiel in her bloodline has played a very vital role in molding Moirin’s character and building her so different from Phedre. I am looking forwards to her return to Terre D’ange and her face-off with Raphael in the third book.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Follower of the Sex Goddess Naamah, Moirin leaves her homeland traveling across Tatar in search of Bao the Chin warrior she met and loved (see Naamah’s Kiss). He possesses half of her diadh-anam divine soul-spark. When she finds her soulmate following her treacherous trek, she learns to her chagrin he is married.
But, he is not just wed to anyone; his jealous wife is the daughter of the Fantastic Khan. She wants the outsider as far away from her spouse so her father arranges to keep Moirin and his son-in-law apart. The Patriarch of Riva captures Moirin, but she escapes. But by the time she frees herself, Bao is gone on another quest; this time to the realm of the Spider Queen and her army of assassins.
The middle tale in the Naamah fantasy series is a terrific entry that surprisingly has major subplots finished, but leaves plenty for the end. Moirin is a strong lead protagonist as she is like a cocky fantastic boxer who knows her superior talent will win all her fights; her ego has grown immensely because of her awareness of her destiny. Quick-paced, readers will fully appreciate the twists as Naamah’s Curse is a strong tale in the Kushiel Legacy saga.
Harriet Klausner
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Once again another well written tale, but it feels alot like the original trilogy written about Phedre but with a different backdrop. Despite that fact it was a bit too simular at certain parts to the earlier books it still has its own original aspects and manages to be another “I don’t want to place the book down page turner” for any fan of the series. It was very enjoyable – but it was also to some extent predictable. I can’t wait for the next installment but I hope there are less predictable plot twists.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
At the end of Naamah’s Kiss, Moirin’s lover Bao set out on his own, uncomfortable with the magic that bound him and Moirin together. As Naamah’s Curse starts, Moirin undertakes a treacherous journey to find him. The beginning is on the slow side, focusing on the hardships of winter travel and on Moirin’s stay with a kindly Tatar family tree.
Then, Moirin learns that Bao has done something stupid.
It took me a while to warm to Bao in Naamah’s Kiss, mainly because of his habit of calling Moirin “stupid girl.” Yet warm to him I did. By the end of the book, I was rooting for Moirin and Bao as a couple, and I thought Bao’s Han Solo “I know” moment was really cute. Here, though, he does something that makes me like him a excellent deal less. I’ll clarify not more than the spoiler warning.
Yet I have a like-despise relationship with this turning point in the tale, because this is also when it picks up and becomes impossible to place down. Moirin and Bao are separated again and sent in different directions: Moirin to the Vralian city of Riva, and Bao to the valley of Bhaktipur in Bhodistan. We follow Moirin as she endures a grueling captivity at the hands of an intolerant Yeshuite patriarch, and later as she travels to Bhaktipur to rescue her like.
Jacqueline Carey frequently sends her protagonists on several very different adventures in a single book. Naamah’s Curse is no exception, and the adventures seem less “connected” here than they sometimes have in the past. Moirin’s journeys to Vralia and Bhaktipur don’t seem as intertwined as, say, Phedre’s journeys to Drujan and Saba. Moirin’s travels make a darn excellent tale, though, as she finds new distress and lovers along the way. It reminded me, in the end, of the French courtly fairy tales of the seventeenth century, where just when you reflect the hero and heroine are on course for Happily Ever After, some wild plot twist will arise to test their like. Even if it doesn’t all seem to “go together,” it keeps the reader enthralled and wondering what will take place next.
The only additional reservation I have about Naamah’s Curse is that it’s starting to sit uncomfortably with me that every culture in the world seems to have a magical problem that can only be solved by a D’Angeline. It feels a small Eurocentric, plus I miss the ambiguous scenery of magic in the earlier books. There was magic, but it was rare enough that you didn’t permanently know at first sight whether you were dealing with magic or trickery. I caringly remember wondering whether the Master of the Straits was just a myth, admiring the ingenious set-up that produced Asherat’s “voice,” and spending half of Kushiel’s Avatar thinking the Skotophagoti were just charlatans with a really scary act.
That said, Naamah’s Curse is the very definition of a “ripping excellent yarn” and kept me enthralled for days. I will certainly read the third Moirin book — though it will take Bao a while to grow on me again, and I doubt that I’ll ever weep buckets over them the way I did over Phedre and Joscelin in the waterfall!
HERE BE SPOILERS:
Bao makes a choice that has two likely outcomes. He could lose Moirin forever, or — if she arrived with the Imperial following he was expecting — he could cause a war. Reasons for his choice are agreed, but I just can’t shake the thought that either he’s “just not that into” Moirin or that he doesn’t care if he ignites a war. Neither possibility endears him to me. Later in the book, he realizes he made a mistake, but he seems more regretful about squandering his second chance at life than about the fact that he has hurt Moirin and others.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I guess this just wasn’t reasonably as excellent as I hoped it would be. I was really really bored by the end of this. I establish myself sort of rolling my eyes at some of the dialogue. There were some characters that were just pure paragons of goodness, and it hurt my suspension of disbelief. I establish myself pretty tired of Amrita by the end. I really wanted to see more of Valentina. I really feel her best books were the Imriel series. I still delight in a lot of the concepts she gets across. She’s just about the only fantasy writer I know who writes about non-monogamous relationships in a positive way, which I really appreciate. I loved Naamah’s Kiss a lot more because I really loved the plots that went on in Terre D’Ange, and her portrayal of an unhealthy relationship, which you don’t see a lot of in fantasy. It looks like the characters will be heading back there for the next book, so I’m hoping I’ll delight in that one a small more.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5