Difficult to read, difficult to follow. Dialogue written in brogue. Plot and its twists difficult to follow... I plodded my way through it without much joy - only relief in knowing that my torment was over.

Caith the hero and Dubhain the Sidhe trickster... Unwilling participants in a game of intrigue among demi-gods. ( )

I love most of Cherryh's science fiction that I've read to date, and Cyteen is my favorite novel. I also thought well of the story "The Brothers" which this story is a sequel or continuation of. With that said:

This was a hard book to read through. I just couldn't get into it the way I do Cherryh's science fiction stories; I only managed to finish it by reminding myself that every page turned left me that much closer to the end.

Apart from "The Brothers" and other short stories that I might be forgetting at the moment, this is the only Cherryh fantasy that I've read, so I don't know if it's her fantasy novels in general that I don't like, or just this one. ( )

http://tamaranth.blogspot.com/1994/10/faery-in-shadow-c-j-cherryh.html ( )

http://randym-digital.com/fis.htm ( )