Author: Elisabeth Wheatley
Series: Daindreth's Assassin spin-off
Genre: Fantasy/Romance/Adventure
Publisher: Book Goblin Books (self-pub)
Publication Date: September 17, 2024
Edition: Kindle
Source: Library
Purchase: Amazon US | Author's Website|
Synopsis:
A crippled knight.
A widowed sorceress.
And a second chance at love—and revenge.
Born a noblewoman's bastard, Thadred has risen to become High Inquisitor, tasked with hunting escaped cythraul demons across the land. Despite the injuries that left him maimed for life, he has become indispensable to the empire.
Sair was a widowed sorceress who has become one of the Empress Amira's most trusted emissaries and confidantes. A skilled healer and spy, Sair works to ensure peace wherever the empress sends her.
A year ago, Thadred and Sair helped save the world from a fallen goddess, but it's not safe just yet. Unrest ripples through the empire, stray demons lurk in the shadows, and the denizens of a defeated witch still linger.
Now one of those denizens has taken Sair's young son.
Worse, they soon realize the boy's abduction may have more to do with the cythraul demons than anyone thought. Something evil is at work, and Thadred and Sair must stop it before it rains terror on the unsuspecting empire.
A widowed sorceress.
And a second chance at love—and revenge.
Born a noblewoman's bastard, Thadred has risen to become High Inquisitor, tasked with hunting escaped cythraul demons across the land. Despite the injuries that left him maimed for life, he has become indispensable to the empire.
Sair was a widowed sorceress who has become one of the Empress Amira's most trusted emissaries and confidantes. A skilled healer and spy, Sair works to ensure peace wherever the empress sends her.
A year ago, Thadred and Sair helped save the world from a fallen goddess, but it's not safe just yet. Unrest ripples through the empire, stray demons lurk in the shadows, and the denizens of a defeated witch still linger.
Now one of those denizens has taken Sair's young son.
Worse, they soon realize the boy's abduction may have more to do with the cythraul demons than anyone thought. Something evil is at work, and Thadred and Sair must stop it before it rains terror on the unsuspecting empire.
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When I was reading the second book in Daindreth's Assassin, I was still on the fence about Thadred as a character, and didn't know why he was getting his own book. But by the time I finished the series I understood. I would've still liked to learn more about his parentage, who his father is and if he's still alive is still a mystery.
I like Sair well enough as a character, but there are aspects of her that don't match her age in my opinion. It could be due to her being more or less trapped in the Curse Wood her entire adult life, so she's just naive. She just seems a lot younger at times.
This was one of the better written books I've read of this authors (so far). It did help that I was already familiar with these characters from the main series. I also feel like there could be more story to tell with these characters, but I don't know if there's any plans for that.
As a mother myself, I usually find that authors struggle to write kids, especially if they don't have any of their own. This is not the case in this book. The kids did behave like children, and weren't annoying. This goes further with her writing from a mother's perspective in a believable way. I am also grateful that none of the kids died for shock value, something some authors do for some reason that is lost on me.
Wheatley has become one of my auto-read authors. I've already started the first book in her other series Tears of the Wolf, it follows ancestor of the MFC of Daindreth's Assassin. The holds for both this book and that one came in at the same time
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