The Watchtower
By Lee Carroll
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What secrets are hidden in her past . . . ?
Jewelry designer Garet James is still coming to terms with the astounding revelation in BLACK SWAN RISING that she is the last in a long line of women sworn to protect the world from evil. Now she has received a sign from Will Hughes, the 400-year-old vampire who once helped her defeat the evil threatening to destroy New York City. Hughes, tortured by his own violent history which is vividly reenacted here, has asked her to join him on a quest to rid himself of his curse of vampirism. While looking for Will in Paris, Garet encounters a number of mysterious figures-an ancient botanist metamorphosed into the oldest tree in Paris, a gnome who lives under the Labyrinth at the Jardin des Plantes, a librarian at the Institut Oceanographique, and a dryad in the Luxembourg Gardens.
Each encounter leads Garet closer to finding Will Hughes, but she realizes that she's not the only one who's trying to find the way to the magical world called the Summer Country. As Garet struggles to understand her family legacy, each answer she finds only leads to more questions—and to more danger.…
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Reviews for The Watchtower
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Garet chases Will to France and travels around to try to find a cure for his vampirism. Meanwhile we see the story of how Will became a vampire.I felt very meh about it, and kept putting it down for another book.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5An original and interesting take on the regular parnormal/urban fantasy with faeries being the predominent race, and faeries with a bit of a dark twist to them. However, it was rather let down by the prose. The authors are a husband/wife team, one of which is a poet. However, instead of being lyrical and evocative, the colourful language just feels clunky and unwieldly. And the characters - particularly young Will, with his lovelorn angsting, just made me want to kick him in the head and tell him to get over himself. Perhaps that was the point. This follows on from "Black Swan Rising." Will, the angelic vampire (?) has stolen the box from Garet and disappeared without a trace, presumerably to the Summer Country. Garet, love-struck sucker that she is, trails him to France, following after a single clue and spends some time meeting French faeries and following a train of reasoning that may eventually lead her to the Summer Country herself. Garet is at least marginally sensible - she starts to have doubts about her relationship with Will and is not exactly a lovesick puppy, but the endless toing and froing seems to do little to advance the plot and more to slow it down - although most of them do tie in to the end. Which is a nice little cliff-hanger to keep you waiting for the third one. Not bad, but not great either.