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Echoes Across Time #2
King of Souls
Echoes Across Time Series: Book Two
A new king reigns atop the Meranthian throne.
Listening Length: 13 hours and 43 minutes
A new king reigns atop the Meranthian throne.
King Ronan Latimer finds victory comes with a cost. With magic’s full restoration, barriers that have kept Meranthia safe for two millennia collapse leaving her borders exposed. A powerful necromancer tests Ronan’s strength and threatens the kingdom’s hard-won peace. Ronan pushes the limits of his new magic facing a foe bent on creating an undead army and claiming Meranthia’s crown for her own.
During his epic journey, Ronan unlocks deeper secrets of Meranthia’s hidden past. Secrets of the human soul. Secrets that alter his life forever.
Listening Length: 13 hours and 43 minutes
- GenresFantasy
472 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 27, 2014
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August 15, 2015
4.5 stars
King of Souls is the second book in the Echoes Across Time series. Although not dire it would be advantageous to read book #1,Shard Knight, to fully understand the characters.
The borders of Meranthia are being overrun from the sea by the Baerinese led by the powerful Necromancer Tara, hell bent on revenge, and by land from the Obsith desert dwellers led by a sorcerer who has total domination in his sights. Help will come from an unexpected source but will this be enough for King Ronan to save his people.
Matthew Ballard gives the reader a masterful teen/young adult novel full to the brim with nonstop action, suspense, shape shifters, magic, life or death battles and dragons. This book has dragons!!!
Although told through three different story lines, following Tara, Danielle and Ronan, each is easy to follow. The vivid scene descriptions take you right into the story and make it very easy to imagine that you are right there, amongst the action.
My one small con is the long explanation of how the magic originally came to be. It took me out of the immediate story for awhile and got in the way of the general atmosphere. I think there is scope here for a prequel.
King Ronan still has some battles on his hands and I’m looking forward to reading Maylin's Gate, Echoes Across Time #3.
King of Souls is the second book in the Echoes Across Time series. Although not dire it would be advantageous to read book #1,Shard Knight, to fully understand the characters.
The borders of Meranthia are being overrun from the sea by the Baerinese led by the powerful Necromancer Tara, hell bent on revenge, and by land from the Obsith desert dwellers led by a sorcerer who has total domination in his sights. Help will come from an unexpected source but will this be enough for King Ronan to save his people.
Matthew Ballard gives the reader a masterful teen/young adult novel full to the brim with nonstop action, suspense, shape shifters, magic, life or death battles and dragons. This book has dragons!!!
Although told through three different story lines, following Tara, Danielle and Ronan, each is easy to follow. The vivid scene descriptions take you right into the story and make it very easy to imagine that you are right there, amongst the action.
My one small con is the long explanation of how the magic originally came to be. It took me out of the immediate story for awhile and got in the way of the general atmosphere. I think there is scope here for a prequel.
King Ronan still has some battles on his hands and I’m looking forward to reading Maylin's Gate, Echoes Across Time #3.
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March 31, 2019Read the first book Shard Knight. 1 star so will not continue with the series.
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