First, I thought the characters kind of regressed in characterization. Zane was so bland I frequently forgot who was narrating. They all seemed a bit lifeless. The last book focused so much on Zane’s & Danica’s developing relationship, it was a bit of a letdown to see how far into the background the characters were pushed in this story. Every character was just there to move the plot along, and there wasn’t even that much of a plot!But my main problem with this book is the lack of world building...

Danica and Zane are still trying to heal the rift between their two peoples – the avian and the serpiente clans. Their marriage is about to bear fruit, as Danica has become pregnant. But now there’s some concern – from both groups – about how the child will be raised, and how she will be able to hold the two peoples together once she grows up. It’s even more important to make a decision when Danica is attacked. Her guard is able to save her life and that of her unborn baby girl, but informs Dani...

After Hawksong, I was immediately filled with a desire to know more about Zane, Danica, and their tumultuous world. Thankfully, I had Snakecharm on hand and began it almost at once. Yet, this sequel leaves much to be desired. While Danica is expecting a child, which puts both herself and Zane in the difficult situation of figuring out how to rear their heir, the haughty falcons have come into their world to search for missing falcons who have hidden among Danica's warriors. Although these two pl...

Well, this sure is a middle book.I don't recall particularly loving this one when I first read this series, and I definitely don't love it now. It's doing a lot of work to bridge the gap between the story Atwater-Rhodes had already told and the one she wanted to tell next, and that means that it introduces a lot of concepts and moves characters around to get them in the right positions, but unfortunately not in a way that's satisfying in and of itself. As a whole the narrative feels un-polished;...

I read Hawksong years ago, twice, and I really liked it for the little bit of romance it had in it. To a young teenager that was really exciting. Since then I've read quite a few books by her and realize how actually terrible the writing is. Like one of the worst I've read. Very simple, fast, not deep at all in regards to both the plot and characters. I don't remember much about Hawksong. Pair bond seemed a stupid way to refer to someone's mate. Why not just mate? Pair bond seemed like a word fo...

The war is over. What now?The story continues in this book. The peace has been made. Tentative moves are also made to unite the avians and the serpientes. Some are successful, some are not.But the royal couple is expecting a heir and it is dubious that the races will accept a mix blood as future ruler. Who will raise the child: serpiente or avians?But the child of a cobra and a hawk is a less certain equation. The serpiente don't mind having a hawk as Naga so long as their Diente is pure cobra —...

This was not a good book and shared very little with its predecessor, Hawksong. I thought I read somewhere that the author wrote the first book when she was a teenager and ended up publishing it herself. Unsure if this book followed the same self-published route but it had none of the personality nor spine of the original. In that sense, this is akin to poor Susan Ee surprising us with her self-published book Angelfall but then disappointing for the two sequels. THE GOODThe reveal of the...

well this is awkward.i loved hawksong. it has always been one of my favorite books. and although i thought i hadn't read this one before, i remembered a lot of it as i continued to read. and i remembered just how boring it was. so the premise of the book is that syfka, a royal falcon, comes to the serpiente court to announce that a fugitive is living among either the serpents or the avian people. being that danica is pregnant, the falcon's presence is a huge source of concern for zane.and then s...

Charming, charming, charming- NOT. Let me start off by saying I had high hopes for this book, Hawksong (its predecessor) was a light exhilarating read. With Snakecharm however, you feel that it is too fast paced and too rushed. For example, (view spoiler)[ Danica only named Zane as her Alistair a a year ago and barely able to trust him. In Snakecharm, she's pregnant! How absurd! The character development changed immensely in ONE YEAR! enough to have a child... (hide spoiler)]. What I'm trying to...

Despite the fact that I love Hawksong with my whole heart, I still went into this book somewhat hesitant. I'd heard some negative reviews with this novel, resulting in my thinking that perhaps it wouldn't live up to its predecessor. But it DID. I LOVED this book. I still am partial to Hawksong, but this book and Hawksong sort of go hand in hand. I adore them both.I love how much you learn in this novel. In Hawksong, it was about the war, in Snakecharm, it's about the peacetime. And because it's

Solid 3 stars!This world that Atwater-Rhodes has created is wonderful but the books are just too short and too fast-paced! On the other hand, there is barely any plot drag that current YA fantasies seem to have. Despite the Keisha'ra series being an MG - YA fantasy, the author's really good with her romance. I remember Hawksong being so sensual even though there wasn't anything extra in it - just good word choice. Not so much here. I kinda wish she would slow down a bit, a fantasy needs that, an...

The seconf od the Kiesh'ra series, this book gives light to Zane Cobriana's mind. As the narrator for the book, he provides a significant change to the prior novel, which was told through the voice of Danica Shardae his new wife. Zane is much more sarcastic and emotional than she, and it gives the plot a bit more pazzaz. The story line in itself develops nicely and explors the reasons behind the struggle for both the avians and serpiente to live harmoniously to a greater extent.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes is so talented. I read her books back when I was a teen and just flew through all of them. I still think fondly of them from time to time. I hope to re-read them at some time. The Kiesha'ra series has a special place in my heart.

This book is very boring and bad. Badly written. Badly paced. Had I not been bored every time I picked it up, I could have finished it in a day or two. But here we are on Day 4 and it was a struggle to force myself to read the last 40 pages.I made it one of my goals to reread Atwar-Rhodes’ work this year as I had physical copies of all her books from high-school when I adored them. Two months ago, I read the first in this series, ‘Hawksong’,and was pleasantly surprised that it wasn’t awful. ‘Sna...

Ok so I absolutely loved this book and the series, but I wish I wasn't over so fast, and theat it showed more of the serpentine ability to 'sense' emotions like Zane showed Danika in the first book. I'm glad the child wasn't born in this book because that would be easy to fast, even though I kinda expected that to happen. Also, I honestly expected *SPOILERS* Erica and Andreios to be the missing Falcons because they have been actinge strange for some time, and they were just the best fighters fro...

I just feel like this series would be so much better as a couple standard size books. There's too much info dumping and history crammed in to these short 150-200 pages, it just feels overwhelming and like we are more focused on that than on what's currently happening and how it affects the characters. The names are (for me) completely unpronounceable which means I'm hearing gibberish in my head for most of every page. All of that combined together just wasn't an enjoyable reading experience (asi...

3 STARSI loved the first installment, but this one just didn't do much for me. There was barely any romance which was really a big shift from the first book.There were some good parts and soms interesting stuff thrown in but not enough to really keep me invested in this story and these characters.

While I was very very happy to be back in this world with these characters I do wish things had been a little longer. I need more angst with my drama and that's more easily done with more length. Still seeing things from Zanes point of view was a nice change and I'd still like to continue on.

It's been years since I've read Hawksong, and I never wanted to read this because I thought it was in their kid's perspective. Their history was surprisingly confusing, with a lot of names to remember.Idr it being in Zane's perspective, but maybe the author decided to do it for the 2nd bk. She didn't capture a guy's voice. At first I thought it was a girls, in Danica's POV. I did not remember Zane's oldest brother killed Danica's mom. And he went to attack them, and saw her sleeping and fell in

So far Snakecharm by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes has been really great. It took a while to get used to the style of writing that the author uses, but after getting past the strange style it is a really good book. The plot is progressing all the time so there is never a dull moment. Once you get into it you don't want to put it down. Zane Cobriana Zane Cobriana, the main character in Snakecharm by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, is a cobra shapeshifter with a hot flaring attitude determined to keep peace and t...

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes welcomes us back into her world of shapeshifters in this second volume of the planned Kiesha'Ra series. First off, if you haven't read Hawksong (the first volume), you will be lost in the second volume. While there are brief references to that book in this novel, Snakecharm introduces us to a new clan and characters, but also lacks the power of it's predecessor.In Snakecharm, Zane takes the driver's wheel and guides us into the newlywed's life with his pair bond Danica. Bot...

This is one of my favorite books and I love rereading it over and over. This will be a short review because there are lots of spoilers in this book and I don't wanna give anything awayThis books picks up a few months after the first book, Hawksong. This book is in Zane's point of view. The war between the serpiente and the avians is over. Danica and Zane rule both people in their each individual courts. While the war is over, the two cultures have not merged together. Some brave individuals have...

Checked out from the library.Review/Rating:4 out of 5Danica and Zane have achieved a lot in their aim of peace between the avains and serpiente. However, when Danica becomes pregnant, will the peace last long? Also, a falcon named Syfka comes and that causes more problems, so is the falcon just there to find their missing falcon? Or, is she there just to stir up trouble amongst their people?Another supernatural book, however, this time it is about shapeshifters, again. Yay. \o/As a second book o...

I rediscovered Hawksong on my shelf, and given my current predilection toward both escapism and nostalgia for childhood books, I decided to try and read the rest of the series. This book was....OK. It seemed to just continue the plot of the first book without a lot of the emotional urgency or sexiness that made Hawksong seem pretty great to 11 year old me (still is pretty good!). The two main characters are madly in love and there are machinations and stuff they have to contend with, but it's ju...

As I've mentioned in Hawksong's review, these books, though a delightful read, left me wanting.One thing I should add when it comes to Snakecharm is how well the author dealt with how the "inter-species" (in a way) marriage worked and the difficulties that came from raising a child of two cultures. Most books tend to sweep these conflicts under the Happy Ever After rug, it's always a nice treat when an author does not shy from these issues. Granted, it's fantasy, but these are also issues preval...

This book- being the second of the series, was under a lot of pressure to impress the fan base of the first book. I enjoyed the first book immensely and I was expecting more development of the two protagonists and the continuation of their lives after the first novel. Is that what you get from this sequel? Yes and no. Yes, they are still characters in the book, they make appearances through-out it, but no, they are no longer the book's focus. This sequel was disappointing to me, not simply becau...

I was absolutely in love with Hawksong! The characters the plot, and not to mention the obvious chemistry between Zane and Danica. This book was kind of a disappointment. With their new world of freedom and semi-peace, the avian and serpiente people are on edge when a falcon comes claiming that there is one of her own kind hidden among Zane and Danica’s people. When people start to find out that Danica is pregnant with a half cobra/hawk child, arguments are started as to what will happen to it,

My rating is actually 3.5 stars. As always, I am impressed with the author's firm grasp of world building and I get easily attached to her characters. That being said, I was not as engrossed by this story as I was with the first. There was something in the desperate attempt to create peace that was engaging and that was lacking a bit in this one. I appreciated how the characters strove, constantly, to overcome each other's prejudices in the hopes of making a better world, because that was realis...

Sequel to Hawksong, it was not as bad as I feared, but definitely less "immediate" than its predecessor, where one clearly feels Danica's emotions and thoughts. Zane's narration in this volume feels far removed from the action - an observer's viewpoint rather than a participant's. Furthermore, the falcon angle seemed overdone - just how powerful are they and why don't the Serpiente and Avian clans have some of that good old "magic" on their side?Honestly, I think Zane's version of Hawksong would...

I started reading Atwater-Rhodes when she wrote her first book, In the Forests of the Night in, oh... 1999/2000. It was published while I was working the Books department at Media Play. It was.. interesting... I suppose, but there was this niggling thing about the way she writes - 'pedestrian' is what I called it, to my boyfriend. This book and the next, Snakecharm are the first two books of what I can only imagine will be at the least, a trilogy, called the "Kiesha'ra". Atwater-Rhodes has made