Bowden P. (Trey) - , reviewed on 12/11/2008 + 260 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

This is the sequel to Waterborn and closes out the series. In it, Hezhi and Perkar's flight from the River/Changeling continues and its a doozy. Shamanic initiation, angst, etc. are only some of the events in the book.

I liked it because it continued to flesh out the world (and it looks like Keyes lifted Pleistocene era fauna for some of the monsters), as well as the characters. Particularly, it fleshed out Yen/Ghe the assassin from Waterborn who has a new role in this book. It also fleshed out Ghan, the librarian from the book as well. Both are taken from their places of power and into new environments and that makes it interesting.

About the only thing I didn't like was the ending, but it was good. Keyes lays the groundwork for it, but doesn't point it out for the reader. Still, it did jar, but it opened up a happy ending.

Anyway, I highly recommend this book to fantasy fans.

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