Cyndi J. (cyndij) reviewed on 3/22/2021 + 1032 more book reviews

This is really good. No big wars, no world-will-be-destroyed plot, just an interesting character study in a fantasy setting. There's magic, but it's so minor. Maia is an engaging person; his inner turmoil at suddenly being thrust into this new role, his thoughtfulness, and his absolute determination to be kind - to be unlike his father or Setheris - is very interesting. My quibble would be that those characteristics are really unusual in a teenage male. But Idra is the same...maybe in this world children have more self-awareness. Almost all the secondary characters have some depth to them. The book unfolds at a stately pace, don't be expecting any major action scenes. I was so pleased that there is very little racial tension between the goblins and fairies. There is a murder mystery to be solved; I really wanted to know more about the Witness for the Dead and happily it appears I'll get my wish in the next book. Addison has gone overboard in constructing this language. I wish I'd known about the glossary in the back way earlier because for a while my eye was just sliding over long word-salad vocabulary. But bottom line, I enjoyed this very much.

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