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6/10Canavan chose to tell the story of the war between Kyralia and Sachaka by alternating narratives between Tessia, a young Kyralian apprentice who discovers she has magic and is drawn into the war and Stara, a young Sachakan woman, who also is a "natural" magician and who recently traveled from her mother's home in Elyne to the Sachakan capital to stay with her father and be married. Yet the war never really touches Stara and her world until the end of the book when she is forced to flee. Canavan also follows Takado, the Sachakan magician who instigates the war, and his slave Hanara, Jayan, an apprentice magician who falls in love with Tessia, and several other characters. But Canavan never ties these narratives together, at least not in a way that was satisfactory to me.I liked seeing the foundations of the Magicians Guild being built, and the use of magic in healing. But I felt like more could have been done to make the story more cohesive.
One of my favourite books though it has taken me lomg enough to pick it up and read. I think I only bought this because I thought it was the trilogy in one book. Derp moment that day. I am rereading my book collection and read this before magicians guild. The book was slow to start and reaally developed the characters, they really grew and changed as the book went along. I would have liked more, seeing how they set up the guild and a happy ever after ending. I would have liked to know what happened to Dakon in the last bit of his life and if he ever did find someone. the way this book is written is amazing and I don't think I've connected so much to characters in a while.
Welcome return from the drivel which was age of the five
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