Review: what a Cliffhanger!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 2, 2013
I am so thrilled with getting Sicarius' POV that it doesn't even matter that the majority of this story he and Amaranthe are basically apart. Well, it doesn't matter MUCH. I loved and hated  the cliffhanger ending. I know Lindsay Buroker will complete this amazing series in a way that her fans will love and appreciate....I hope *cough*After five books and several novellas, being able to get inside our master assassins head was awe inspiring. I loved how the author wrote it and I really loved how Sicarius continued to notice his own thought processes having changed in the last year with Amaranthe. The fact that he is trying to figure out how to manage a sense of humor is a phenomenal gift, albeit unknowing, to Amaranthe and to his son Sespian. It's priceless the way the author has written his issues with how to deal with so many things that "normal" humans would know, I.e. how to comfort Amaranthe from nightmares, how to express that training is perhaps not the most important thing he'd like to do with her, etc. It's seeing him vulnerable that made me fall in love with Sicarius all over again.Amaranthe, Sicarius, Sespian and crew have returned to the capital city to plan a way to put Sespian back on the throne as emperor. As is true with this crowd, there is a lot of plotting, spying, fighting, hiding, training and much of it in costumes. Amaranthe devises a plan that has her infiltrating Forge while Sespian is trying to gather troops to his cause. So there's Amaranthe in a highly dangerous situation without Sicarius because he's at Sespians side in another highly dangerous endeavor. Pretty much the way Lindsay Buroker's world of the Emperor's Edge works.I am saddened knowing that in two months when the final story is released it will be the end. Although I am profoundly grateful to the author that the waiting isn't longer. I love this world and these characters the author has created and I will miss new stories of them. But I take solace in the fact that I can re-read to my hearts content.