Tamlyn (Silvermay, #2) by James Moloney

Tamlyn (Silvermay, #2) Reviews

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  Eunice

  Ugh TAMLYN TAMLYN TAMLYN!!! <3
  Such a top bloke, way hotter and nicer than heaps of other lead male characters that girls fangirl about!
  Why don't more people know about this series and why isn't there more hype surrounding it?! Is it because the author is Australian and not American? So he has less publicity?
  Because this series is so much better and well-written and clever and unique compared to a whole bunch of YA books out there that I can think of which have arguably undeserved fame.
  
  Top Best Book Boyfriend right there.
  
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  My only issue with this book is the line:
  '"Then carry him by yourself," I said, managing to sound even more like a pathetic female.'
  a part of me wonders whether this would've bothered me as much if the author was not male.
  Or maybe it's a refreshing change because for once, the lead female character knows when she's being whiny...
  and there's also random comments about the female lead's physical weakness and how she's weaker than all the 'strong men'. But I suppose it's (hopefully) not a jibe by the author and merely just part and parcel of the times (because of the medieval setting which meant many tasks required physical strength).
  or maybe I should stop trying to conduct post-modern feminist analysis of innocent YA novels.
  
  Also there was a part in the middle where they kind of stayed at one place for a while and I don't know if there was any point in those pages or was it to merely add more words...
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  Kerrie

  Tamlyn is the wonderful sequel to the award winning Silvermay (Silvermay won the 2011 Gold Inky award). The thing I like about this series is its ability to transport you to another time and place. That era always had the best adventure stories and the romance is always so sweet and innocent. Tamlyn is no different.
  
  It begins where Silvermay left off (if you haven’t read Silvermay, avert your eyes now), baby Lucien has been stolen by the evil Coyle, and Silvermay and Tamlyn have been left fighting for their lives on the jetty. With no way of knowing where Coyle has taken Lucien, Silvermay and Tamlyn return to Silvermay’s village to regroup and try to figure out where Coyle is. But when a stranger walks into town with some terrible news, Silvermay and Tamlyn have another problem to deal with. The Wyrdborn nature in Tamlyn is starting to take over, and if Silvermay can’t help him, it will have devastating consequences to their relationship.
  
  I really enjoyed this novel. I couldn’t put it down, and ended up finishing it in a day- a sign of how much I enjoyed it. I think one of the things I loved about this series is that it does transport you to that era where women are not seen as equals, and yet Silvermay is such a strong female character. She willingly goes on dangerous quests and is willing to fight and die for the people she loves. I don’t think there is anything better then reading about strong women like Silvermay.
  
  I’m looking forward to seeing how this all ends in Lucien, but unfortunately, its a long wait.
  
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  Karlein Kwong

  The sequel picks up from the events of the first book. Silvermay and Tamlyn, along with their new friends set out on a quest to rescue baby Lucien from the evil clutches of Coyle Strongbow. Through this journey, Silvermay witnesses the growth of her much loved companion, Tamlyn, as he tries to fight away his wyrndborn nature that threatens to claim his heart.
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  Alex

  A perfect mixture of lust, betrayal, deceit, chaos and love are encased in one enthralling sequel by Australian author James Moloney. A young girl named Silvermay travels with a man named Tamlyn despite what he is- a race of wizards who prey and live of fear and venerability. It was drilled into her from a young age that she must avoid such people yet she sees something different with Tamlyn but despite this his soul is darkening as a chaos attempts to consume him. Across seas a child has been captured by the same notorious race of wizards, yet this child has the power to destroy worlds, bend people to his will and displays such magical brilliance that in the wrong hands, death and destruction would surely follow. Together both Tamlyn and Silvermay must save the child before it commits what was prophesied hundreds of years before.
  
  I really enjoyed this novel from start to finish; James Moloney's writing was eloquent and consistent often foreshadowing or creating tension to fully engage the reader. I especially loved the descriptions of the various towns, cities, villages and oceans as I could vividly imagine them in my mind. Moloney does a great job with characterization especially with the main female character Silvermay (what a creative name!) as you could see the difference in her attitudes from start to finish and undying commitment to saving Lucien (the child) from his inevitable fate was constantly renewed enough so that the reader always knew what she was striving for. I also really liked the occasional swap between points of view so that we could see events in someone else's eyes.
  
  There was a lot of dialogue in the novel and this really helped in understanding many situations without confusing the reader. The pace of the novel was much faster than I had intended and I wished it would slow down and they would stay in places much longer. The side characters were great, especially in Silvermay's village and those were the pages that kept me reading all night. It was great to see a darker side of Tamlyn during the novel and how this contrasted between weak and strong. The large supernatural element of this novel was just right and it was so interesting to read about how the various races of wizards use their powers. The ending was a thrilling and unexpected finale with lots of betrayal and surprising tiwsts which will be leading up to the third and final novel next year.
  
  In Conclusion, Tamlyn was a great pleasure to read and mixed with great characters, exciting events, many supernatural occurrences and brilliant writing this is a great add to the Young adult genre. I definitely recommend reading the novel Silvermay before reading Tamlyn but both are skilfully written. It's good to know I'm reading many five star novels lately!
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  Renee

  I loved the continuation of The Silvermay story, Tamlyn. The twists were very unexpected and I loved the pace of the story. The questions from
  Silvermay were not only answered, but lead to new questions, deepening the plot and creating more suspense. The ending was very sweet and made a few tears come to my eyes. The struggle to try and do the right thing and to overcome fears is very prominent in this story. I love Tamlyn and felt so sorry for Ryall when he had to get his arm amputated and I loved how Silvermay tried to help him .
  Tamlyn has grown to love and trust and learned that humans can have just as much power. I think in 'Lucien' he will become human and I think he will ask Silvermay to marry him, as he said that he would ask Ossin another favour one day when he has earned more trust from him.
  Tamlyn ends on a high note when talks of the group banding together to go to Erebis Felan is decided and plans to free their kingdom of evil are made. James Moloney writes in a captivating way that puts readers into the world rather than just reading about it. Switching form 3rd person to 1st person from different character's points of view is effecive in telling parts of the story that fit in together like a jigsaw and explain the happenings in the region of Coyle.
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  Avery

  You couldn't imagine my joy when I read this book. James just continues to produce such an intriguing story. And how I eat up every word until there was nothing left!!
  Such a mastermind of a book, no joke!
  Nothing will ever make me hate any of the characters nor the author who writes it.
  I feel like this book should be behind a glass shrine and looked a pound by other authors, that's how much I love it.
  Even the cover is good. I cannot actually think of a fault.
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  Kate

  This book suffered from over explaining and it just wasn't very sophisticated... everything was overstated and quite obvious. Which is a shame, because I don't remember the first book in this series being like that.
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  Emma

  Four and a quarter stars.
  Tamlyn is a stunning sequel to Silvermay. My favourite part of this series has been the characters development, specially Tamlyns as he grows to question his nature as a Wyrdborn. The ending was shocking and beautiful and I love how this book deals with the idea of killing one to save a thousand. The theme of being human is also present in this book.
  I also enjoyed watching characters grieve and grow. My only criticism is the fact that for most of the book the romance between Silvermay and Tamlyn back tracked. In some ways this was very middle bookish in that by the end they had returned to how they had been at the start. Even in saying that I cannot help but think that there relationship is the same as it was at the begining the characters are not and are therefore more ready to be together.
  I recommend this for anyone reading the silvermay saga, it is a worthy sequel.
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  Lizzie

  I had read this book a while ago but completely forgot what happened and now re-reading it i am still in amazement. Tamlyn, the second book in the trilogy of Silvermay, has rekindled my love for fantasy. The magical aspects as well as normal human emotion makes this novel come to life. You will undoubtably be able to relate with the characters as i have laughing and cry by their side. This is a fantastic continuation to the story of Silvermay.
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  Stacey

  Did not finish. Unfortunately I couldn't make it more than halfway through this book, the writing was just too predictable with very little suspense to draw the reader into the story. I couldn't empathise with the characters enough to care what happened to them.
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  Ruby

  Again, LOVED the second book of the Silvermay trilogy!!!
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  Anne Hamilton

  I'd originally been attracted to this book because of the evocative white silhouette on a deep blue background. Cloak and sword and misty castle, I was sucked in. The title helped, too. It held out a promise of the folktale of Tam Lin, the old Scottish story of a man enchanted by faeries whose only hope of redemption lay in the faith and tenacity of his true love.
  
  Within a half dozen pages, I realised my mistake. I discovered this is the second book in a series - and the threads seemed jangly and discordant as I tried to pick them up. I couldn't get enthused at all by the story. But I could see its potential, so I sought out Silvermay, the first book in the series. Silvermay filled in the background nicely and I was able to return to the opening chapter of Tamlyn with a new appreciation.
  
  Spoilers below *****
  
  This is an absorbing, engrossing fantasy with the caveat above - read it in series order. Baby Lucien has been kidnapped by Coyle Strongbow, his father, who is intent on warping his mind so he will become a malevolent monster. Coyle has discovered in Lucien a tool that will break all the constraints of the Wyrdborn and enable him to usurp the throne of King Chantiny. After that, perhaps world domination would be in order.
  
  Did I write kidnapped? Not exactly the right word. Silvermay was duped into voluntarily handing Lucien into Coyle's care, believing him to be the scholar Miston Dessar. She's also been deceived about Tamlyn betraying her and the death of her cousin Ryall.
  
  Ryall is desperately wounded, tortured and mutilated by Tamlyn's half-brother Hallig. If Silvermay can get him home swiftly, he has a slim chance of life.
  
  Lucien is drawn inexorably deeper into the inhuman, callous world of the Wyrdborn. Growing out of babyhood at an impossibly fast rate, he is developing a taste for the blood-stained cruelty of his strange heritage. At the same time, his half-brother Tamlyn is being drawn, step by halting step, out of darkness into all the complexities of humanity he has never known before: dreams, love, shame... all the emotions the Wyrdborn cannot experience.
  
  (Here we indeed have faint echoes of the Tam Lin of folklore.)
  
  But Tamlyn's tentative groping for redemptive light is thrust aside when his mother is murdered by her husband Coyle. He thinks of nothing now except revenge. Lady Ezeldi, suspecting she was in danger, has secretly sent Tamlyn a silver ring via the real Miston Dessar. The ring had once been the property of Coyle and, as such, it has the potential for a weapon. A quirk of Wyrdborn nature means they can only be killed by something that belongs to them: thus the ring must, in Tamlyn's eyes, be reforged as part of a sword.
  
  Tamlyn, Silvermay and Ryall are helped by Miston Dessar and a magician from Erebis Felan to find Lucien. He is being held in the City of Lost Souls.
  
  However Lucien's powers have grown so strong and the prophecies about him are so dire that unexpected forces have become allies to destroy him while he is still an infant. Better that Tamlyn, Silvermay and Lucien die than that the whole world be destroyed.
  
  In the end, only Silvermay can save Lucien and Tamlyn - not by might or magic but by speaking out the quality of mercy.
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  Jane Tea

  Tamlyn.
  Wow, what a great sequel. I was so happy when I finished it because unlike the first novel, this one didn’t leave me gasping at the end. Don’t get me wrong, I love Silvermay, in fact I like it better than this novel, but this novel was still great.
  It picks up quite literally right after the events of the first novel with no breathing space at all. It gets straight into action and just goes from there. Tamlyn and Silvermay along with friends continue their search for baby Lucien and of course, meet many obstacles along the way. Silvermay continues to grow as does Tamlyn on their dangerous journey.
  However, great as the book was, it was a bit slow at some parts and made me miss the adventure in Silvermay (the book). But! In the second half of the book, things pick up again and as I mentioned, the novel turned out great!
  People definitely need to read this series!!
  
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  Yvonne Boag

  Lucien is in the hands of Tamlyn's father Coyle and Silvermay will do anything in her power to get him back. Tamlyn is battling the darkness in himself and his only hope is his love for Silvermay but will that be enough? He receives dark tidings from a friend that could truly push him over the edge.
  
  I was disappointed in this book I am very sad to say. I really enjoyed the first book and was so looking forward to this one. Unfortunately I found the dialogue quite terrible, the pace too slow and a lot of it pointless. I just hope the next book is as good as the first one.
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  Fatima

  Absolutely amazing!! James Moloney strikes again with an incredibly fantastic sequel to Silvermay. The characters are as intriguing as ever, the adventures are intense and there are just as many plot twists as the first. Tamlyn is an excellent and exciting read and I CAN'T WAIT SIX MONTHS FOR THE NEXT INSTALMENT! PUBLISH IT NOW MOLONEY!! PLEASE.
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  Tracey

  A good continuation of the story. I was afraid that it would be raving too much about just how amazing Tamlyn is, and the start was a bit rocky in that respect but the plot picked up and gathered momentum. I'm interested to see how this story plays out in the next book.
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  Chelsea

  Absolutely love this trilogy!!!
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  Renée Soufflé

  I didn't enjoy this as much as book 1. At times I found Silvermay very immature and judgmental, but I think the next book has a lot of potential and I will continue with the series.
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  Giulia

  A bit slow, but in the last third it was brilliant!
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  Courtney

  My review of this book can be found here:
  
  
  http://www.bookworm8921.blogspot.com....
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  TheOneAndOnlySam

  cant wait for lucien to come out!!!
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  Chantal

  Great sequel to Silvermay. Loved the belief in the good in all of us.
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  Benna

  Can't WAIT for Lucien the third book in the Silvermay trilogy!!!
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  Courtney

  NEED THE NEXT BOOK NOW!!!
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  Isabel Chia

  Easy read(: I quite enjoyed it^_^ can't wait for the last book! Lucien~
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  Karin

  enjoyed this easy read but good narrative
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  Julianne

  SO AWESOME!!!!!!
  
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  Natalie

  Again, a really good sequel to Silvermay. :)
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  Madison

  1st reread: 22/10/18
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  Jezka

  I finished this book in five hours. I think it would be safe to say I enjoyed it just as much as I had Silvermay.