Helpful Score: 2
This was an enjoyable book finishing up the duology begun in Children of Chaos. The narrative is written with quirkiness and some humor but isn't meant to be funny. It imparts some normalcy to the relationships of the characters. The story centers around 4 children of a leader who are given as hostages to an invading "horde" to guarantee the safety of their city. The children grow up separately from each other in the invading horde's "face" on their world. The real story is about how they all eventually come back together as adults to try to save their parents and homeland as well as the "face" of the world that they grew up in. It was a fairly easy to read story. The fantasy centers around the "magic" of the powers given to people sworn to the individuals of 12 gods in their pantheon of gods. Each god gives different kinds of powers with different kinds of restrictions. There is definitely a down side to any powers assumed by an adherent. I like that kind of philosophy that no power is granted "freely". The story ends logically and in a realistic manner considering the setting of the story. I recommend it.
