Genre: High fantasy with ro-ro-ro-ma-romama-okay, I’ll stop. Romance. It has romance.
Summary: Miach faces being magicless and a lot more to win Morgan’s heart and they also visit relatives.
Rating: 4/5
Review:
I’m a sucker for high fantasy. I’m a sucker for magical worlds, badass women, swords, and romance intertwined in all of it. Lynn Kurland has wrote a series that I speaks to the inner fantasy lover in me.
Miach is a humble but deadly mage. Morgan is a master swordsperson with grumpy feelings towards mages in a general sense. However, they get together and it is cute as all hell.
The plot of this novel is not just about needing to figure out a way to keep the realm safe. I have a feeling that plot point is supposed to span even more books than the next one on the list. The plot is, when all is said and done, a romance between Miach and Morgan. It is about the courting and the cuddling and the feelings between these two characters. If you are prepared for this and don’t mind it (hell, if you cheer it on) then you may come out of it liking it oodles. However, if you want your fantasy novel to have more meat in way of battles, political intrigue, and general world building, you may want to move on to a different series (at some point, I’ll have to post up some fantasy series that touches on those aspects).
There were two issues I had problems with in this novel (and generally in the series so far). One, there is no actual descriptions of the battles. There’s a little when Miach fights another magic user who vies for Morgan’s affections but not much. Lynn Kurland does a lot of telling and little showing. It reads more like: Morgan bested the unfortunate swine and whacked his sword away. There’s no description of swashbuckling. This could be for a few reasons: The plot isn’t all that focused on the fighting and hubbub about it or Lynn Kurland doesn’t know a lot about swordplay. While I understand, it takes a bit out of the story for me. I am told Morgan is a superb sword master but don’t get to see it in all its glory.
Secondly, and this may be what puts this book on the “Will Not Read” list for many people, there is little in way of diversity. At least, as far as I can see. There’s little physical description to begin with but the few that there is, it seems to be aimed at Western European and not in any kind of modern sense.
Overall, I like the story from what I took away from it – a love story.
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