Some suspension of disbelief was required to accept some of the resolutions the author was offering. The story was addressed well for all the separate characters we were following and the separate plot lines did finally merge together. Definitely the first quartet is stronger than this one.moreĪ great finish to the Sunsurge Quartet series. It suffers a bit from too many dislikeable people I think and although Ogre and Lyra are the two I found most interesting, I think their sections were a little far between.ģ*, (just).
It's definitely a book which felt a little too misogynistic on the majority of male characters for my liking, but I did like the female ones mostly. Won't say too much except I'm happy some of the characters get their happy ending. I think the final 20% brought it up again for me, bit it was a bit of a slog to get to that point. It suffers a bit from too many dislikeable people I think and alth Three stars as a final rating, but this was almost 2 as for most of the book I wasn't that interested. Three stars as a final rating, but this was almost 2 as for most of the book I wasn't that interested. Only Lyra and a handful of other heretical dwymancers have grasped the true danger - and they won't give up until every last hope is buried. Īre these the Last Days, when the daemons rise up to claim the world?įrom snowbound Mollachia to the beleaguered walls of Norostein, from the poisonous court of the new sultan to the deadly intrigues of Pallas, the omens are clear. His ultimate goal - absolute control of all life - is finally within his reach. Kings and priests dance to his tune and his daemonic followers are spreading through the lands, but still he isn't satisfied. and he is winning.Įrvyn Naxius, amoral genius, has unleashed war on two continents and is now laughing as the world of Urte tears itself apart. and her empire is falling apart.īut a more dangerous adversary is out there. Her enemies are on the march and the Rondian Empire is collapsing. Lyra, Queen of Rondelmar, has fought enemies without and within, dealt with grief and loss, embraced forbidden magic, found her father and borne a child - and still it isn't enough. Overall, it makes for a striking storytelling choice, one that doesn’t let us rest easily on the notion of “our hero.” Instead, the narrative points steadily toward the conclusion that there are no devils or angels, there are only men.'A remarkable series' SFFANZ She's the Empress of the Fall. Throughout the novel, characters are constantly shifting in the reader’s mind from likable to hideous, from creepy to benevolent, from romantic to fanatic. We are tricked into thinking Gurvon Gyle might be a character we can root for-sure he runs the nastiest ring of assassins and spies on the continent and he’s advocating for the death of an entire royal family, children and all, but by comparison to the corrupt and possibly insane Emperor and Imperial Mother, Gurvon doesn’t seem half-bad-it’s a poor assumption.
In the first 45 pages, we meet only characters who are in the habit of killing children, whether for profit or sustenance.
With a whole host of point-of-view characters-about a dozen in all, nearly half of whom I’d consider “main characters,” they hit on all the good tropes: boy-wizard, female assassin-warrior, marriage of convenience, crossed lover, etc.-few of them can be considered “heroes” and fewer still can be considered “good,” or at the very least, “well intentioned.” As readers, we’ve been conditioned to expect to be introduced to the hero of the story early on, or at least to a disreputable-but-redeemable character.
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