Review: A very deep Novella reminiscent of the work of Tolkein
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 15, 2012
I received this book from the author for an honest review.I love books that pull you into their pages without remorse for what you leave behind.  This is one of those books.  It has a depth to it that is not easily understood unless you allow yourself to be fully immersed into the life of the main character Adria, and the world the Author creates.  Even though this is only a Novella, the author does this all within a few pages and I can't imagine what reading the whole series will do to me.  Creating his own language of the Aesidhe and using it fluently throughout the pages blew my mind away.  This shows me the depth the Author is willing to go and the time he gave in order to create his new world. I see many similarities to what the Native Americans must have experienced when what they believed in and how they lived was considered savage and wrong.Adria is a princess by birth to the Aeman of the Heilands, but ran away to join with the Aesidhe people, to learn to be a warrior and healer.  In order for the many homeless and starving to survive, an elite group of "Runners" stage raids against the very people that Adria has left behind, the Aeman.  On one such raid, the challenges she faced finding her place amongst the Aesidhe will be tested to the very limits when her past collides with her present.  Now with an uncertain future she must leave all that she has come to love in order to keep a promise that she regrets now making.This is a Fantastic start to a Series that I know YA readers of any age will come to love and respect.  A definite must read!