✍️ Written by: Brian Lee Durfee
🏷️ Genre: Fantasy
🗓️ Published: 22 January 2018
📄 Pages: 752
🧐 My rating: ★★★☆☆ (3 stars)
War has come to the Five Isles. A merciless host driven by the Angel Prince, Aeros, has its sights on the unconquered kingdom of Gul Kana.
Its ruling family are fractured. The newly crowned king reigns in paranoid isolation, and his two sisters have troubles of their own. Jondralyn wants to prove her worth as a warrior, while Tala has uncovered a secret that may destroy the entire kingdom.
Hidden at the edge of Gul Kana, however, is Nail. An orphan taken by the enigmatic Shawcroft to a remote whaling village, he is now a young man who may be the salvation of the entire Five Isles…
I enjoyed this one. It was a long book, and it took some time to get going, but once it did, I became invested in the story and the characters.
The various story lines are well written, and although they start to converge by the end of the book, it took too long to do so, in my opinion.
This is a trilogy of books, but the 3rd book has only been released on audiobook and paperback, it seems. With me already working through the Black Sword series, and waiting for the next book to be released, I'm not sure if I want to continue to invest in this series, or wait for the 3rd book to be released.
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