Review: Review of The Unfinished Song: Root
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 25, 2012
Book four picks up after Dindi has returned to The Lost Swan tribe from her initiation at Yellow Bear.  While she has been made a Tavaedi thanks to her dancing in the fairy circle and NOT being killed by the fairys, everyone still assumes she has no chromas (magic for those not familiar with the series) and she is still treated as basically nothing better than a slave.  The White Lady aka: Vessia aka: The Corn Maiden.  is on the move.  She has heard of her son Kavio's agreement with her nephew Zumo to hold a Vooma.  A Dance contest amongst the top female dancers in Faearth.  The best will be named the Vaedi and she will choose who will rule The Rainbow Labyrinth.This series is getting better and better. Maya is doing an amazing job of taking the characters introduced in Dindi's visions in the previous books and bringing them into Dindi's present. Plus she brought in quite a few new interesting characters, such as Umbral, a deathsworn warrior, and Amdra, the daughter of Vumo and Nangi the thought eater. Or the new star of Dindi's visions, Mayara, an orphaned Aelfae who might just hold the key to solving the fairy's riddle.I really  liked the fact that Dindi finally seems to be coming into her own. While she is still ridiculed by the members of her tribe, she is more sure of herself.  While others don't see or sense her magic, she is able to use it and at least can see it herself.  Honestly I didn't know if I could make it through the book if Dindi didn't at least get some sort of good coming her way.  In the first three books she is beaten down constantly, and while I liked them, I kept waiting for things to start going in her favor.I also liked how Maya expanded into even more of Faearth.  We get to meet the Raptor Riders of Orange Canyon, as well as the people of the Green Woods tribehold. Plus I got to find out more about the Deathsworn.I was drawn into the story.  I have to admit though that I knew where the story was going.  Boy was I surprised, and not just at the end.  The real reason Tamio falls in love with Dindi, where Kavio has been.  I thought I knew the answers to both, but when the big reveal game...Well one I kinda suspected, but the other...OMG, I was soooo off. But it makes me eager to see were the 5th book will take Dindi in Faearth on her quest to hold up her end of the bargain with the fairys.  Of course it is another cliffie....definitely a bit more severe than book 3. ***Spoiler alert*** But she softened it a bit with a final vision of Mayara.  It actually made me tear up it was so sweet.  ***end spoiler***So far this was one of the more satisfying books in the series.  FINALLY a whole lot of questions about how Dindi's chromas were hidden and where they came from in the first place were cleared upThe only thing I really had questions about, had nothing to do with the story itself.  I was actually curious about the cover of the 4th book.  It's beautiful, no doubt about that, but it is sooo different from the other 3 books.  It just threw me for a minute.If you've read the other 3 definitely pick this one up.  If you haven't...Where have you been??? I admit the whole cliffie ending of the first book was definitely a buzz kill, but as long as you have the second book handy you'll be fine.  The third and fourth books continue the cliffie mania, but not as severely as that first one, and  considering its a 12 book saga, I kinda figure the cliffies will just keep on coming.  The twists and turns however in the story just keep getting better and better, I don't know how the author plans to keep it up for 12 books without it starting to drag at some point, but I gladly will keep reading to see how she does it.