I Read Books: Traitor's Moon
Having created some cool characters, put them in a city full of intrigue and a land at war with high stakes, Flewelling takes us away from that and goes on a journey to the land of the Elves.
But I’m carping unnecessarily. We’ve got the survivors of Stalking Darkness back, Alec and Seregil, and also the wizard Thero and Beka, now commanding a troop of soldiers. The war isn’t going well, the Queen has been injured so she sends her daughter to Aurenfaie to ask for help, or at least for an open port that doesn’t require sailing past the enemy.
Seregil has been exiled. Alec is half-Faie, but from a group that left centuries ago. There are reasons why they closed the borders between Aurenfaie and the outside world. Some of them profited from it.
Also there are oracles and prophecies going on, the whole thing rapidly spins out of control in a complex manner.
Read This: Some fantasy plotting, mostly in the style of the two books that went on before
Don’t Read This: If you don’t care about high stakes negotiating with dark skulduggery
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