Genre: Fiction—Fantasy
Completed: 21 July 2017
Summary & Review:
On the run from a spurned former lover, Rhapsody falls in with two Bolg outlaws named Grunthor and Achmed. She soon learns that rather than being her saviors, the two men are using her in their own escape. But, as the trio runs from their pasts, they become dear friends united in their isolation. Their journeys take them through the center of the earth to a whole new world and time, thousands of years from their home.
I’m sure that summary made zero sense to anyone who hasn’t read the book. Sorry. Being nearly 700 pages long, Haydon covered a lot of stuff in this book. In fact, that is one of my major complaints of the novel: there was just too much included in it. The book opens with some crazy romance/time-travel scene then goes to the main action with Rhapsody on this island nation and then continues on to this mega-hundred-pages-long journey through a huge tree root through the center of the world. Once they’re out of the root, they’re in a completely different land and time, a millennia and half after their home has been destroyed. Now that the three are in this new time period, a whole new saga starts as they are fighting demons, then hanging out with some forest priest and then exploring some cities and then finding and uniting the Bolg in the mountain caverns and on and on. Finally, the story ends with Rhapsody going off to find a dragon?!? Sheesh.
Stylistically, Haydon is a talented writer and Rhapsody was a fairly intriguing character, but she definitely suffered in comparison to Vin from Well of Ascension and Mistborn that I’ve read recently. I doubt I’ll ever get around to reading any more in this series, but I enjoyed this book.
Rating: 6.0
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