The Fallen Moon Trilogy - K J Taylor
The Dark Griffin (reread)
The Griffin's Flight
The Griffin's WarI really liked this trilogy - although, I'm not at all sure why as there were so many elements in it that should have had me hating it.
The first book was clear cut as to who the villains/heroes were, but thanks to some hasty revision of backstory in the second and third, it became more difficult to excuse our hero's actions. I didn't get the impression that this was because the author was deliberating playing with the ideas of what makes a hero or that no one is all good or or evil, so much as it was just that she genuinely didn't think her hero was acting badly. (In book one, for example, our hero is a young man who is badly treated, abused and maligned through no fault of his own. In book two, he reveals to his mother that he was a corrupt official, destroying lives to suit himself. When he reveals that he once planted drugs on a business rival of his parents, to put him out of business, his mother's response is almost literally 'Oh...you..." and we're not encouraged to see this as anything significant.)
Also carnage/massacres were glossed over and the ending was a bit rushed and anti-climatic, among other issues.
I think it was saved for me by the presence of the griffins and their relationships with their humans. Without them, I might have taken greater issue with this one's flaws.
LabRat
