Rating: 5/5 Summary: Yelena is about to executed for murder. In Ixia when you commit a crime, your punishment is essentially the crime itself, kind of like an eye for an eye. There are no excuses. When the guards come to retrieve her, she is taken to Valek’s office, the Commander’s assassin and spymaster. He gives her a choice: be executed now or serve as the Commander’s food taster. As the food taster, Yelena could be poisoned at any meal and die anyway. Yelena is […]
All the Sudden People Were Dying Everywhere
Rating: 3.5/5 Summary: The Farming of Bones begins in 1937 in a village on the Dominican side of the river that separates the country from Haiti. Amabelle Desir, Haitian-born and a faithful maidservant to the Dominican family that took her in when she was orphaned, and her lover Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, decide they will marry and return to Haiti at the end of the cane season. However, hostilities toward Haitian laborers find a vitriolic spokesman in the ultra-nationalist Generalissimo Trujillo who calls for an […]
Love Must Make Sacrifices in War
Rating: 4.5/5 Summary: It has been months since Day & June went their separate ways at the end of Prodigy. Though they still care for each other, Day doesn’t want to burden June with his fatal prognosis. A peace treaty is being negotiated between the Republic and the Colonies when a tragedy strikes. Plague has spread throughout the Colonies and they’re blaming the Republic. The only hope for a cure seems to be Eden, but Day has already sacrificed his whole family for the Republic, […]
I’m a Queen…No I’m a Warrior! Queen! Warrior!…Maybe I Can be Both?
Rating: 4.25/5 Summary: After the defeat of Angra, the evil King of Spring, Meira, Mather and the Winterians have returned home. Unfortunately they also brought Cordell & its soldiers with them. Thus begins the long process of healing Winter and repaying the staggering debt to Cordell. King Noam isn’t making it easier either. When Winterians stumble across the lost Chasm of Magic in one of the caves Meira & Theron embark on a quest throughout Primoria to find the keys to unlock it. However, Meira […]