Review: out of the frying pan, into the fire
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 14, 2012
I was given a free review copy of this book.I really enjoyed the first installment of this series and enjoyed the origins of the characters of Lorit and Chihon. Their discovery of their powers as wizard and sorceress made for a lot of fun and imaginative reading.Now, with the second novel, I see the imagination has been escalated with the introduction of a cornucopia of interesting new mystical and magical creatures, a gauntlet of challenges and puzzleboxes, and the maturing of the skills of the two main characters.I continue to enjoy the characters and their relationships to each other. Their certitude in a morally treacherous terrain is from where the drama arisesI deducted one star, only because the pacing from one predicament to the next was so relentless, and without relief that it made it hard to not feel a little emotionally fatigued at times as a reader.