Blade of Fortriu: Book Two of The Bridei Chronicles Review

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Blade of Fortriu: Book Two of The Bridei Chronicles ReviewI, too, have fallen victim to Marillier's brilliant first trilogy. While I tried very hard to love this book and the first book in the Bridei Chronicles neither book has done it for me like Daughter of the Forest, etc. did. There's just no living up to it.
There is no doubt in my mind that Marillier is a fantastic writer and storyteller however, I'm not sure what genre she is trying to join. With this series she is reaching towards romance and I hate to say it, but sometimes Ana's blind devotion to a man she literally does not even know is just plain silly.
Ana is a vastly annoying character, for some reason I just had a lot of problems with her. She seemed to me prudish, prim and stuck up. I also had a very hard time with the love story between her and Drustan. So, I'm expected to believe she falls deeply and passionately in love with a man she sees for five seconds in the woods? It seems to me that Ms. Marillier has forsaken the slow, careful and beautiful storytelling of the Sevenwaters Trilogy for a formulaic, trite and conventional. I do like the way she handled the villain, Alipn. It was clear from the moment his character appeared that he was going to be the bad guy, there was no doubt about it but Marillier did manage to preserve some of his background and make you wonder what exactly his backstory was whereas with other villains, Lord Richard in Daughter of the Forest for instance, they were just bad and that was it.
Something that got on my nerves was the jumping around in the story. This is something Marillier did in both Wolfskin and especially Foxmask. The difference between those two books and the story jumping in this book is that I actually cared about all the plot lines in the latter. In The Blade of Fortriu I found myself rolling my eyes whenever the story jumped back to Bridei and Tuala and the war but then I didn't particularly care for that story when it was in its own book either. She does handle historical detail wonderfully, that's one of the reasons I finished the book. Marillier blends fantasy and fact very well and it helps that she writes about a time about which little is known.
I have high hopes for the last book in the series as Faolan was the most interesting character in this series so far. He seems to me to be the kind of hero Marillier writes best, the stoic, guarded and mysterious man who redeems himself through the love of a good woman. Hopefully in the upcoming Well of Shades, Marillier will get back to what devoted fans like myself have fallen in love with.Blade of Fortriu: Book Two of The Bridei Chronicles Overview

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