Review: A FANTASTIC READ
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 26, 2013
This is a historical drama set in a land far far away, written in a language that make you taste the words when you read them.Lyon and Tobin are childhood friends, but loose contact when Tobin becomes a soldier in the Kings Army and Lyon becomes the sorcerer’s apprentice.Fifteen years later Tobin has to bring a translator to help the king.He finds his “Lion-boy”, but now Lyon is a broken and pained man, hiding behind the iron walls in the safety of his house.Tobin drags him out, kicking and screaming, and brings him on a journey, that Lyon had never expected.As they ride out together we learn the story of the nave boy that became a sorcerer, but suffered great pain, as a wraith possesses him through his master. Physical and mental rape and abuse, has caused Lyon to hide for many years, fearful that the wraith will come back.Slowly Tobin brings out the story, and shows great love and compassion towards the only man he has truly loved.His feelings are requited, but Lyon feels like damaged good and is afraid of human contact.The time in the Realm brings back feelings and fear in full force towards Lyon, but Tobin is there, the ever present love, strength, kindness and protection that Lyon needs to help the Kingdom, and heal his soul and body.To find love and peace in the arms of his best friend, the man he always loved.