The first book mostly introduces you to the different characters, places and customs so you can get to know them a bit before the author turns all of their futures upside down. It is of course recommend to read the entire quartet but once you start this one, I doubt you will be able to stop. Their threads continue to entangle throughout the three books that follow this one.
All of the characters’ paths are linked in one way or another which becomes increasingly more obvious while reading. I love it when characters have emotional depth and are not merely swinging their swords around the entire time.
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LBGTQ characters are featured in this series which I love because sometimes I find that the fantasy genre is extremely straight! I also enjoy that it has more emotional depth that some more ‘battle’ oriented fantasy series. So I do believe there is something for everyone. The book contains some political storylines as several characters are motivated by power and a desire to rule but it also has all the ingredients of a great quest inside of it. There are of course many more but each of these have pivotal parts to play in the book. A young girl named Ramita, her best friend Huriya, her childhood boyfriend Kazim and her new husband Antonin Meiros. Alaron, Elena’s cousin and his best friends, Cym and Ramon. We also follow Gurvon Gyle, a master manipulator and Elena’s former boss and lover. Being torn between her former life as a spy/assassin and her growing attachment to her current ‘targets’ Cera Nesti, a princess and her little brother the crown prince, Timori, she puts herself in a very dangerous position when she decides to abandon her mission and protect those she was meant to assassinate. That being said, I did not find it difficult to align myself with several favorite characters from the start.Īs perhaps any woman might, I was immediately drawn to Elena and her plight. Some storylines will overlap of course when the characters meet one another and share adventures. Almost every chapter focuses on a different character. Each chapter gives a little back story, also the time (counting down to the moontide) and the place. A very powerful Magi was also the one who built the magical bridge.Īs I previously stated, there are a lot of different povs.
Emperors have employed Magi for many years to plunder the lands on the other side of the bridge. They do so for a plethora of reasons, mostly for commercial/trading purposes. When it does, inhabitants of both lands can cross the bridge for a period of one year. The book counts down to the Moontide, which is when a magical bridge between the two lands, Antiopia and Yuros, normally divided by water, is accessible due to the retreating tide. The big difference is that Urte is magical. The people, their different belief structures and the on-going friction between certain religions as well as people of different races are similar to what we experience in everyday life and this does make it easy to relate to. The story takes us to a Urte, a fictional land which does resemble our own world in many ways. After sticking with it, I must say that I am glad that I did because it is definitely worth it. When I first started reading this book I was a bit overwhelmed with the sheer amount of places, and characters I needed to familiarize myself with. This is my first review so bare with me, I hope you will enjoy it.
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