After having gorged on fantasy books the whole summer, I came to this with a continuing cynicism that it would be 'more of the same'. However I was very pleasantly surprised, and found this a refreshing and convincing novel of a girl finding her unique abilities in a magical empire.A particularly...
I don't understand. Things happened, kinda, but it felt like a whole half of the book was missing because nothing really happened. I know that's a contradiction, but the plot was nowhere to be scene. We got the idea of what the real issue would be, I think, but there was only like one sentence ab...
She could feel her heart beating faster and her palms sweating at the thought of seeing Blaise again—the man who had rejected her, the man whom she still couldn’t forget. Even now that she had found some measure of happiness with Barson, memories of her time with Blaise were like a poorly healed ...
She could see that the healer’s focus was no longer on her. It was on his patient, with the steady gaze of a man confident in his work. Sara backed off. She didn’t think she had much choice, and besides, she believed him. She believed he knew the cause of Ezekiel’s ailment, as well as the cure. S...
Villages only popping up sporadically, as the carriage cast its shadow on open fields in the noonday sun. Ciardis shook herself out of her stupor as the day grew closer to dusk. Alexandra was watching the scenery go by. The carriage stopped at dusk. “I go no farther,” said the driver. Alexandra g...