Review: Great Start To A New Ghost Series
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 26, 2014
I was a little nervous, at first, when the original Ghost series drew to a close.  I'd hoped that Moeller wasn't going to retire his legendary creation.  Relieved now.This first book in the new series is a fantastic start to a new storyline.  New villains, new heroes, new Ghosts, and new challenges.  All in an entirely new environment.  Istarinmul is so very different  from Malarae.  So much less civilized and orderly.  So much slavery, which is particularly abhorrent to Caina.A good portion of the book deals with her grief over losing Corvallis and Halfdan, and her coming to terms over whether she wants to even continue living at this point.  The city she finds herself in is far more dangerous and untidy than her home city, and she has no friends or contacts.  By the end of the book she has established a new Ghost Circle, with her first two members.  She has also, as usual, blown up or set fire to a dozen places.  She has also established her reputation as the Balarigar.We have a whole new central mystery to explore, a new otherworldly spirit who has attached itself to her, another vaguely mysterious man masquerading as a bard in the coffee house she frequents who has a keen interest in her, and seems to know what she is doing, and a very dangerous opponent.Because of the short novella published just prior to this book, we know that Kylon will still be in the picture, although he wasn't present in this book.  But, he has been tied to the mystery, and it has been established that he has Caina in his thoughts much of the time.  I'm happy to see this.  Despite the fact that he has married, and appears to be a decent man, I'm firm in the belief that he is the right man for Caina, and will be with her eventually.Lots of action in this book.  Lots of emotional upheaval.  Lots of disguises.  Lots of danger.  What's not to love?