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Darkspire Reaches a five star review by 2015 Hugo Nom Abyss and Apex Magazine.
Darkspire Reaches
Review by 2015 Hugo Nominated Abyss and Apex for Darkspire Reaches
5.0 out of 5 stars enthralling book April 2, 2013
By Wendy S. Delmater
Format:Paperback
Despite the cover this is not yet another book about magic and dragons. It is about a young woman's journey of self-discovery. On par with the lowly Wart of Arthurian legend, fifteen-year-old Raven starts out as a foundling, a servant, bound by love to the only mother she knows. She serves a small-time practitioner and healer in a small village where she does not belong and feels an outcast, as her coloration marks her ancestry from one of the wandering tribes to the north. When her adoptive mother sheds years of lies and hiding to claim her rightful place near royalty, Raven's life--already tinged by forbidden magical abilities--becomes more and more constrained. Threatened by intrigues she had no part in, Raven barely escapes to her beloved forest with her life.
Members of the northern tribes find her, save her. She tries to make a home with various segments of that society, never quite fitting in but learning much. One of them betrays her back to the southern kingdom, whose ruler needs her to die to cover his intrigues.
In all of these situations she fears, above all else, the wyvern: the four-legged dragons of legend that permeate her past and future scrying and - and her nightmares.
How she, a firedrake, a man of a race called Drakken (who are friendly with the wyvern), and wyvern half-breeds await an opportunity for escape and new life is so full of twists, misunderstandings, betrayals, revelations, romance, battle and magic is for you to discover if you read this marvelous book. And by magic, I mean the kind of enveloping world-building and characterization that can cause you to look up hour later and only then notice that while you were immersed in the book the sun has set and you've missed a meal. Or two.
C.N. Lesley leaves things open for a sequel, and one hopes to read it soon.
*Author Note: Serpent of the Shangrove is out later this year*
Darkspire Reaches
Review by 2015 Hugo Nominated Abyss and Apex for Darkspire Reaches
5.0 out of 5 stars enthralling book April 2, 2013
By Wendy S. Delmater
Format:Paperback
Despite the cover this is not yet another book about magic and dragons. It is about a young woman's journey of self-discovery. On par with the lowly Wart of Arthurian legend, fifteen-year-old Raven starts out as a foundling, a servant, bound by love to the only mother she knows. She serves a small-time practitioner and healer in a small village where she does not belong and feels an outcast, as her coloration marks her ancestry from one of the wandering tribes to the north. When her adoptive mother sheds years of lies and hiding to claim her rightful place near royalty, Raven's life--already tinged by forbidden magical abilities--becomes more and more constrained. Threatened by intrigues she had no part in, Raven barely escapes to her beloved forest with her life.
Members of the northern tribes find her, save her. She tries to make a home with various segments of that society, never quite fitting in but learning much. One of them betrays her back to the southern kingdom, whose ruler needs her to die to cover his intrigues.
In all of these situations she fears, above all else, the wyvern: the four-legged dragons of legend that permeate her past and future scrying and - and her nightmares.
How she, a firedrake, a man of a race called Drakken (who are friendly with the wyvern), and wyvern half-breeds await an opportunity for escape and new life is so full of twists, misunderstandings, betrayals, revelations, romance, battle and magic is for you to discover if you read this marvelous book. And by magic, I mean the kind of enveloping world-building and characterization that can cause you to look up hour later and only then notice that while you were immersed in the book the sun has set and you've missed a meal. Or two.
C.N. Lesley leaves things open for a sequel, and one hopes to read it soon.
*Author Note: Serpent of the Shangrove is out later this year*
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