Review: "I want more!"
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2013
The review was originally posted at Library Cat book blog."I want more!"This was my reaction after finishing this book. It took me more than a week to read it but it was worth for every minute spent on it. Here is the blurb:Adesina was raised as Shimat warrior. All she knew was fighting, fighting her entire life. But, somehow, she felt that she didn't belong among Shimat. She was always treated as different. She didn't know why. She was trying more and more.Shimat authorities sent Adesina on a mission. To infiltrate herself in the High City. There she had to kidnap a man, a spy. But there was something familiar about him. When she faced the magic-users, people who came to find him, Adesina had to face them. Facing them, she had to face the truth. The truth for her real heritage, the truth about her, about the Shimat.How to know what is right and what is wrong? Who is lying and who is telling the truth? Will she become prisoner of her past or will she accept her fate? Adesina has to find her own path, find her own truth, choose her own life.I absolutely loved the story. On one side there are Shimat people, and on the other side there are L'avan people, the magic-users. And in the middle there is the threshold child, the one who will save them all.There is a love triangle in the story. Kendan is Shai, Adesina's trainer who is Shimat. They spent together many years training and became really close. She trusts him no matter what. L'iam is prince of L'avan people, second son of the king. He's kind, honest and brave. I was wandering for Adesina's choice to the very end of the story. Who will win her heart of a warrior? Also, I enjoyed the use of magic in the story. Some scenes of dreaming were so vividly described. L'avan people have magic abilities, they can connect with their vyala, to dream, to fight, to heal. It was magic.Characters in the story were well described. Not just Adesina, Kendan and L'iam, but also E'nes, Adesina's brother, L'era, L'iam's little sister, Aleron, healer-boy from the High City, and Ravi, Adesina's invisible beast friend from Rashad people.What I didn't like was that some things ended too fast at the end. Some things were left unsaid. I hope that that was because book two is coming.This magic story was a real page-turner. I would definitely recommend it to everyone.`Look, therefore, to the advent of the Threshold Child. One who is of this people yet not of this people. One who bears all gifts, Dreams as friends, sees as the enemy and shall be called the bird of prey. This is the one who stands on the Threshold of a New World. This is the one who will save my children from the slow destruction of their atrophy and lead them back to the light of their purpose.'"