A solid fantasy adventure, but it suffers a bit from the two main characters being separated from each other for the majority of the story.

Not bad at all, the only other books from Robin Hobb/Megan Lindholm that I actually like... The Ship and Shaman series failed to drag me in but bot this one.

Lovely second volume too. Although Ki and Vandien are more or less on the same path now, each has his own task and their ways depart, but not for long. We get to know more about the Windsingers and T’cherians, we have a wizard with a hidden agenda, two tasks which are not what they appear and a few twists at the end. The style and construction are still a bit clumsy, but the story is engaging. A light reading for all those who need no stress on their neurons.

Ki’s and Dresh’s story I liked much less than the story of Vandien and the fisherfolk in False Harbour and that of the Windsingers (again, I would have liked more about this very interesting race)

The book is ok, but nowhere near as brilliant as her other work, the Fitz/Fool novels etc. Still, worth reading while waiting for Fitz and the Fool Part 3 to come out.

There appear to be two stories running through this book: The one concerning a lost village, swallowed by the sea, I found interesting and appealing but the second thread was just plain weird and I couldn't decide how it really helped the overall story. I also felt like I was losing interest in Ki and Vandien during the book - possibly Vandien was the more interesting character but I really don't feel any enthusiasm to carry on with the series.

Not quite as good as the first book..Vandian and KI take on two different tales here.. Vandian ends up participating in an old fisher-village tradition - a pointless(?) salvage of a sunken temple, while Ki ends up transporting some decidedly odd goods...I enjoyed Vandian's story - I like his character. But Ki's story dealing with the "Windsingers" is just plain weird... not sure I enjoyed it all that much. And the ending is quite abrupt - but the nasty folk get their comeuppance.But the characte...

Megan Lindholm/Robin Hobb is one of my favourite authors, and marvellously skilled at creating vivid, realistic characters. This story is more technically skilled than the first and I love the relationship between Ki and Van in this book - respectful, supportive and genuine. However, with the two of them apart for most of the book, the plot failed to grab me and it was only towards the end that I felt any momentum or interest.

In this adventure Ki and Vandien have separate adventures which are linked by the mysterious Windsingers who have power over the wind and can be good to people or use the wind to cause great harm. I love the new worlds and animals that are in this novel, and the fact that humans live with other species, often in harmony or at least cooperation.

...I'm not entirely sure which novel I would rate higher. Harpy's Flight is more frantic, I liked the tension in that novel and the plot better. The Windsingers is definitely better structured though. I felt some of the tension in the sections with Ki and Dresh was lacking a bit although some readers might appreciate the surreal surrounding Ki finds herself in. I guess it is a matter of taste, there is something to be said for each novel. Whichever you prefer, The Windsingers is a solid entry in...

The only thing I could remember about this book (I read it before in the 1980s) was a lot of sloshing about in cold sea water! Well, there is some of that but reading it with older eyes, I can see it's also a fine story of friendship and loyalty, and how a problem can hurt a good relationship even though both sides try hard not to let it. This is a fantasy, so there's magic in the story too. A wizard has pitted himself against the powerful wind singers and some innocent humans get caught up in t...

Loved the first Windsingers book enough to wade through this one. Spent most of this book being confused and unsure of where it was going. It got better towards the end, but the ending itself was a real let-down. Not sure if I will read the next one in the series.

While I still enjoyed this book, the part that I enjoy about this book is the characters and their interactions - this book features both of them going on separate journeys for most of the book. I found that some of the new characters were engaging others weren't as good. Still worth the read and I will continue this series.

It's been 3 years since I read the first book in the series; I wish it'd been a little fresher in my memory...Still, this is an excellent fantasy, following the adventures of Ki and Vandien...The itinerant almost-couple, who we met in 'Harpy's Flight' have to split up in this installment - Vandien commits himself to a treasure hunt in a remote fishing village, while Ki gets herself sucked into a feud between the wizard Dresh and the powerful Windsingers - women who control the weather with their...

Ki's and Vandien's strange courtship develops amidst parallel adventures with a satisfying ending--which is happily just another launching pad for another book. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at the rich world being devised as every Robin Hobb series has delighted me. The fact that this series is focused so much tighter on this couple makes it no less wonderful than her other, more wide-spreading epics.

Yet another great story.Ki and Vandien agree to meet at False Harbour, as Vandien has agreed to try and lift a mysterious chest from a drowned Windsinger temple. Ki doesn't think the job worth trying, as many teamsters have tried to get it before, over many years, without success.As Vandien insists on it, Ki eventually agrees to meet him there, after she has delivered a load that she had already agreed upon to deliver.These actions are just the start of a convoluted story, that takes Ki out of h...

I did not enjoy this one as much as the first one but it's still a good read. Ki's part of the story was just a little strange for me.

This book is better structured than Harpy's Flight, and I love it quite a lot. It continues everything I like so much from the first book, and builds on it -- developing the rich world-building, developing the undemanding partnership between Ki and Vandien, drawing the two of them into deeper plots.Dresh is a horrible character, slimy as hell and rude and crude and, well, an attempted rapist. Having read this book before, it's hard to sympathise with him at all -- so much easier to like Rebeke a...

It took me a while to get into this book, for several reasons. The most important of which being that I started a new part time job that seems to be dominating my time despite the "part-time" misnomer. At about 50%, after having read a page here and a page there, I sat down and said I will either read this book or put it down, and once I gave it a real go it sucked me in just like every other Robin Hobb book. There is one criticism I have; the side plot "love story"... yeah, Robin Hobb is a mast...

Robin Hobb is one of my favourite authors. Having read all her books I've been heading back through her back catalogue and through her work as Megan Lindholm. I loved the Reindeer people books and I enjoyed the first book in the Windsingers series. This the second I wasn't so sure about. I love the relationship between Ki and Vandien the two main characters. I love the characters themselves, flawed and multi faceted and so very human. I enjoy the world Lindholm has created. But I didn't really g...