… lots and lots of heart! Lacking that, go for the win. This book was as entertaining as it’s companion novel, “Of Shadow and Sea” with the added delight to have Travis Baldree providing the male MC voice. Clearly, Will Wight has set up The Elder Empire series as, while not a dichotomy, one of dueling allegiances and apparently fate-bound, at least as far as the story goes with the first two novels.
All of the primary characters are larger than life, with lots of interesting backstory to them, Even the secondary characters are interesting and entertaining in their secondary roles. The primary antagonist, the emperor, is frighteningly resolute and not to be trifled with.
The only thing that dropped it a star rating was that much of the later part book was a re-telling of the epic battle at the end of “Of Shadow and Sea”; albeit, from a different perspective. I feel a bit guilty on dropping this book even one star knowing that had I purchased this book before “”Of Shadow and Sea”, I would have dropped that book one star for the same reason.
Don’t let that falling star create any hesitation in purchasing either AND both of them. They are a matched pair and worth a bit of redundancy for so much enjoyment.