Review: Wonderful story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2014
Reviewed by Lynn for Bex 'n' BooksDisclosure: I received this book from the author for an honest review.In the world of Sindorus, everything is bleak. Where even color is illegal. There are three main characters Idrith, where not by his own choice was sent to live out his life in Amyth, a monastery. Here he suffers from headaches and an Abbot that enjoys making Idrith's life miserable. Until one day Idrith discovers a secret room. With windows of colors like he has never seen. Now he is looking for answers.Then we have Daen, a Northern women that was raised by her father. Taught to read and write. She was an artist that spent a lot of her time drawing. She was promised to a nobleman in marriage. Over the years he has kept putting off the marriage, which makes her and her father happy. Needing a way to make money and buy herbs for her ill father, she starts selling her paintings which leads to someone sending her color paints to make make her painting with.Last we have Aztar, a nobleman, whom dreams of being the youngest controller for Zah-Rel. Aztar is a cousin to Idrith and the fiancé of Daen.Harmion is the person who brings these three lives together. He encourages Idrith to look for answers, Daen to paint with colors and points Aztar the way to answers about Rae.By the end of the book, it all is coming together and the past comes alight.Pretty much the first half of the book gives you the background of each character and sets the story up. Learning the prejudices the people have against each other that live in other areas of their world. How they have blindly followed along without knowing the truth. How it only takes a few people to start questioning to make changes in their world. Once I got about half way I really started to enjoy the story. The story does wrap up in the end but yet there is enough for a sequel. So either way you are not left hanging.Michelle Frost weaves the tale seamlessly; it just flows along. At one point, I wasn't sure there was any way to finish the story satisfactory by the end. But she accomplishes this and then some.Wonderful story for lovers of fantasy/ steam-punk novels.