The Enchanter Heir

For those of you who personally know me, yes. I just rated a Cinda Williams Chima book four stars.Why? For about 80 pages, I considered putting it down. The first two chapters were awesome. Then the next 80 pages.....I was just like, "Seriously? Zombies? Why are you playing this card?" But then once Lilith shows up, I started to get into it more. But up until that point I was really bothered. I still think I would have been happy with just the Thorn Hill conspiracy plot going on, but now I'm more comfortable with where Chima is taking this book.This book is most certainly a set up book though. Anyone who knows me knows I'm okay with that, and I'm okay with how it's going so far. I just would like to read the next book so I can truly determine if this series is going to match up to first, the previous Heir series, and two, the Seven Realms series (the series that made her my favorite author). We shall see what happens.I would recommend this book for teens above the age of 15. There are moments when Emma just like....oogles Jonah, which I guess is typical for teens, but for me I'm just like, yes he's super hot and I totally ship you two, but seriously your house is being attacked stop that. But I guess teens are more likely to swallow that than I am.Sex; No, but seriously there's going to be by the way she oogles him. I don't know how it will happen given his deadly.....traits......but it's going to. Mark my words.Drugs; Brief mentionsViolence; Yup. Jonah is an assassin. So....yeah. Lots of death. Goodness there's heart-wrenching death in the first two chapters. Not gory, but still. It's there.Language; Occasionally, nothing too major. I really only noticed it once or twice.Rock and roll; yup. Do teens use the word 'tunes' to describe music?

I LOVE the Heir series, and thought that it ended at Dragon Heir, so I was extra delighted to recently discover that that wasn't the case - and even more thrilled that there will be more in the future! HURRAY!Initially I was a bit disappointed that the story didn't focus on previous beloved characters (i.e., "old friends" of a sort) but I soon stopped fretting as the storyline progressed, and I became immersed in the new character development and flavor of the book: establishing new heros (along with one or two of the requisite reluctant ones) as well as introducing a brand new cast of delicious villians, potential villians, and questionable villians - some human ... and some not quite so. Old "faces" did make a few cameos - however if there is a flaw to be had with the story, it is that there were not nearly enough of them (they were quite brief, and the attempts seemed stiff, rudimentary at best) but I was still quite happy to "see" them nonetheless. I will say that this detail is minor enough, and hardly worth docking it over.The continuation of the Heir story looks like it will turn out pretty promising. I do recognize that it will be tough competition to measure up to the old Heir books, but I'm still excited to see how they fare up. And, I really, really hope that we don't have to wait a couple of years to read the next one! Talk about a cliff hanger!

I literally started swearing my head off. Which is not something I usually do; I generally resort to things like "Dagnabbit!" and other clean "curses" my friends make fun of me for. However, this was completely deserving of all the sailor mouth I spat at it. I mean, first off, for me to post a review about something is HUGE. Like for me to write a review, I have to be seriously dissatisfied with the product (or in this case the book), to actually muster up the energy to write a complaint. However, here I am writing a review at 1:10 AM because I am thoroughly outraged. Yes, I am an angst-ridden teen. Yes, I probably overreact on a daily basis. However, I love to read and am generally pretty satisfied with any book by Chima; so when I have to deal with a book that I had such high hopes for that ends up frustrating me so much that I want to start a public protest, you know there's a problem. I won't ruin anything for anybody, but I would suggest waiting for the next installment before reading this one so you won't have a typical, teenager angst attack at one in the morning (I am seriously wondering if you can go into shock from too many emotions regarding a fictional story with fictional characters). At first it didn't sound like it was written by her; towards the middle I started to feel like it was her writing. However, I felt like I was reading a fanfiction that had somehow won a contest that allowed it to be the first part of the Enchanter Heir book. And then on the other hand, it's just flat-out depressing. I mean it does get better, but then, of course, the COMPLETELY RANDOM, SOMEHOW-GOT-ACCEPTED-AS-THE-ENDING-EVEN-THOUGH-IT'S-THE-LEAST-PLAUSIBLE-THING-THAT-COULD-HAPPEN (like, there are WARRIORS there, people. You'd think they would be on high alert with all these mainliners chilling there that have been threatening them since Madison came in and was all awesome, but hey, what do I know, I'm just an adolescent teen that can't deal with the angst that teen books provide). Also, on a different note, the other three books were a bit more kid-friendly. I mean, hey, I totally feel for Emma and like her lusting after Jonah or whatever, but is every second in the book necessary? Really? I get it, he's hot, he's got rippling muscles, he's deep and tortured, he's the perfect fictional creation we all have contributed to as a fangirling community on Tumblr; great, whatever. But if you're going to get into THAT over Emma's family's past, or Jonah's dead family or even the Thorn Hill incident itself which is like the biggest unanswered question EVER, you need to sort out your priorities. Way too many different underlining plots, too few questions answered about Gabriel and Kenzie, and the vocabulary is so random. I'm going to be nit-picky here because I can, and this really bothered me, but why would you spell "dryly" as "drily", Chima? WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE. Why do you continually point out Emma's curves and the fact that, yes, Jonah does have "washboard abs" at least 15 times? This, and many other questions may never be answered (like how many licks will it take the average person to eat a tootsie pop?). We will just have to wait, apparently. However it is definitely not her best work; this took me about two months to get through, and I can read a book this long in under a day usually. I am deeply disappointed. And I felt the need to get it out on the internet, because all of you clearly care about my teen angst. So anyway, be prepare for an astounding amount of depression for the first-what?-100 pages, and a completely unsatisfactory ending. My rant is now finished. Thank you for reading.

Loved this whole series... and sorry that i've finished it..For me, the end of book 4 was more of a pause but flowed into book 5 well.cant wait for the next book from this author.

Not as good as previous ones as it felt (and is) like more of an introduction book. But i have high hopes for the next one.

Good

fast delivery and book in mint condition

The best of the series so far. Chima's writing has developed so much through these novels. The characters are engaging and their development is interesting. The story keeps you on your toes. Such a fun read!