Stephen reviewed Arrow's Fall (The Heralds of Valdemar, Book 3) by Mercedes Lackey (Heralds of Valdemar, #3)
With Elspeth, the heir to the throne of Valdemar, come of marriageable age, Talia, the …
Light, and then very dark
3 stars
One of the hardest Valdemar books to review. Like the first two, there's a lot of light romance froth of "these two people somehow manage to mistake their love for each other repeatedly" but then over about 30 pages we get to prolonged torture and rape. I find the rapid tonal change very hard to cope with.
Other than that, more engaging than the previous in the series, with battles rather than school lessons.