Season two is as well-written, convoluted, and vivid as season one. It's also equally heart-wrenching, bloody-minded, graceful, and just when you think you can't bear any more tension or tragedy, humor strikes a match.I don't think it hit as many highs as season one (highs as in delirious happiness or emotional exaltation) but there is I think more tension, the stakes higher for the characters we know. (view spoiler)[There is perhaps more than I wanted to read of Kaab and Tess bickering. But tha...

What if your favorite queer writers wrote fan fiction for one of your favorite fantasies, but along a story arc sketched out by the author? Well, it's here, it's queer, there's a genderqueer character, it's Tremontaine the serial, Season Two. If you liked Swordspoint, or if you're a fan of Maryanne Mohanraj, Tessa Gratton, etc., as well as of Ellen Kushner, run, do not walk....

Simultaneously tremendously fun and beginning to frustrate me with the (very TV series-like) lack of resolutions. While I enjoy the characters I feel very of them have clear aims anymore - there's no grand plan or endgame (the Dutchess of Tremontaine's plotting notwithstanding) that anyone is really striving for. It's interesting to see how engaging the series is despite that quibble, and I'm looking forward to the new season this fall.

I just want someone, anyone, to get a happy ending and I'm not liking my chances.

Very fun! Feels less like an novel than the first one, more like a TV show, which is part of the intent of the experiment, so that's not a bad thing. Highly amusing and romantic, light, but deceptively simple, like a soufflé.

oh gosh, forgot how much i love Esha and Kaab and Diane, can't wait for more

A return to the world of Riverside. Lots of melodrama, intrigue, chocolate, and a little fencing. Slow in the middle but with a solid tragic ending. Some of the suspense is lost due to this being a prequel, so you know where certain characters have to end up, in order to appear in Swordspoint.

Tremontaine: the Complete Season 2 takes of where Season 1 left us and offers more of the same. This is mostly a good thing, as Season 1 was a ton of fun. The first season introduced a wonderful set of characters and it was a pleasure to spend some more time with them, even if the second season did not gave most of them a lot of new things to do.In this second season, Diane (duchess Tremontaine)'s storyline stood out as tremendous fun, but the storylines involving the other characters, which all...

Tremontaine is a prequel to Ellen Kushner’s Riverside books (a series made up of three stand alone novels). However, you don’t have had to have read any of Kushner’s books to enjoy Tremontaine. I do suggest that you start at the beginning of Tremontaine, with season one. If queer fantasy of manners sounds like your thing, you’ll probably enjoy this series.If your not familiar with Serial Box, they’re a publishing company that releases serialized stories, of which Tremontaine is one. Think of it

this second season of Tremontaine has a somewhat different set of contributors, although Ellen Kushner is still in command in the first and last chapters. the blending of writing styles is proceeding nicely, though the fantasy of manners occasionally falls to the level of straight regency romance with a side of melodrama, not really my cup of tea. plus side, one minor addition also adds a trans character to the mix, and there's a great new Asian character startup. all the characters are strong,

I devoured the first series and then double-devoured the second! GIMME SEASON THREE, STAT!

If possible, I loved the second season more than the first.

Broad, textured, interwovenManaged to be a swashbuckling series without ever traveling long distances in water. Shares moments with renfaires, the reign of the sun king, Shogun, all woven into a fine intersectionality.

"Tremontaine: Season Two" is a collection of chapters written by different authors under the auspices of the series originators, Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman, published serially. Although they might not technically be short stories, in an anthology, I marked this as both because of the collaborative author situation."Tremontaine" is a prequel to Kushner and Sherman's "Riverside" series (3 novels plus the Tremontaine serials), which spans generations in an unnamed fancy rich city and the slum

Dianne, the duchess is looking for a new secretary, a new lover, and probably a new husband… although she likes being duchess and she gets the title by marriage, so the duke will live, for the moment. She has a plan to make an application to the council to claim the Duchy from her own family history. But first she has to get them all to vote for her.Rafe is trying to find the missing duke, his lover, who has been declared mad and sent away. Meanwhile he works for his father, and is annoyed that

Tremontaine Season 2 Episode 1: "Convocation"by Ellen Kushner,Convocation is the part of the series that sets up season 2, it gives the background of the story, providing remarkable convolutions of power and prestige. It is the meeting of lords, and traders that will govern the world. Tremontaine is the wife of a lord who is laid low by illness. Her rise to control of the family trust has not been unremarked. She has reestablished the family wealth and has remarkable ability to corner the market...

This is really astonishingly good, especially for a shared universe. It's well-realized, the world and characters are engaging, and the standard of writing is high overall.Nothing can be allowed to stand in my way as I race to download Seasons Three and Four, particularly to see what happens next to Shade and Florian, whom I've fallen love with despite their villainy.

Another fun and refreshingly gay genre read, though not as compellingly dramatic or romantic as the first Tremontaine book. Foreign trader and budding swordswoman Kaab struggles to reconcile her diplomatic and filial duties with her passion for Riverside forger, Tess, who wants more of Kaab than she can give, and whose boobs are described just a little too often in just a few too many tonally incongruous scenes for this reader. After thoroughly incapacitating her husband with regular dosings of