The Silver Blade

What is it with me and silver?  Sheesh.  Anyway, this is the sequel to The Red Necklace.  J'ADORE the Red Necklace.  That's right, I love it so much it's worth French.  This book?  A little bit of a letdown.  Just a little, but it was still there.  Yann spends a little too much time pining over Sido.  I mean, I didn't want him to just keep moving even though he misses her, but this was a little indulgent.  I could have forgiven that, though, had it not been for other things.
The way the villain is finally defeated was not good enough for me.  I liked his first demise in book one wayyyyyyy better.  It's not that I couldn't see him coming back, but the way they got rid of him was just a little too easy.
Finally, not thrilled about Yann and Sido's little...breach in morality.  Let's leave it at that.  No, not graphic at all, but I kinda wish they had waited.  But that didn't mean I hated the book, it just dissappointed me a little.  It took it down to ***1/2.  I really did like that book, though.  Red Necklace is just a lot better.