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mysticj's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
hectaizani's review against another edition
4.0
The second book in the Covenant of Muirwood trilogy, which is the second trilogy set in this world.
Maia and her grandmother have reached the safety of Muirwood Abbey which is nearing completion. Maia had to leave Feint Collier behind and she's pretty sure that not only that she will never see him again but that if she does he will never forgive her.
At the Abbey Maia is introduced to other young women like herself that have been taught to read and write in secret. But instead of finding a group of confidants it seems that everyone dislikes her for one reason or another. No matter. Maia needs to focus on training to be a maston because her father is coming and unless she can stop him, his arrival will spell doom not just for the Abbey but for the world as she knows it.
Maia needs to pass her maston exams to fulfill the prophecy and open the Apse Veil. If only she could, everyone keeps telling her she isn't ready even the Medium and time is running out.
I liked this book in the series more than the first. Maia is more fully fleshed out and has started to take an active role in her own life. I'm looking forward to book three in the series.
Maia and her grandmother have reached the safety of Muirwood Abbey which is nearing completion. Maia had to leave Feint Collier behind and she's pretty sure that not only that she will never see him again but that if she does he will never forgive her.
At the Abbey Maia is introduced to other young women like herself that have been taught to read and write in secret. But instead of finding a group of confidants it seems that everyone dislikes her for one reason or another. No matter. Maia needs to focus on training to be a maston because her father is coming and unless she can stop him, his arrival will spell doom not just for the Abbey but for the world as she knows it.
Maia needs to pass her maston exams to fulfill the prophecy and open the Apse Veil. If only she could, everyone keeps telling her she isn't ready even the Medium and time is running out.
I liked this book in the series more than the first. Maia is more fully fleshed out and has started to take an active role in her own life. I'm looking forward to book three in the series.
angelic712's review against another edition
4.0
I am quite amazed at the true wisdoms contained within this fiction.
ellyrarg's review against another edition
3.0
Ripped through it. It was a great read, lots of twists and turns, and it was nice to be taken down the path without being able to anticipate what happens next.
sassyporcupine's review against another edition
I really enjoyed this entire series
wanderlustlover's review
4.0
Summer 2018; Trilogy review:
I should have written this one ages ago, in the summer when it was still fully flushed in my head and I was head over heels in that latest Jeff Wheeler series. While I still have my low-graded complaint that Wheeler continues to establish archetypes/monsters/magical objects and then drag them into each of his next non-world-connect stories without much explanation (instead, relying on the audience to know them already from earlier reads)--
-- what I remember loving most of all in this series was that it took the villain role (that of the Hetaira) and reinventing it. Our main character was suddenly in those shoes and we got to watch her navigate what good and ill comes of being labeled/touched by the darkness of the world. The sacrifices, the outcasting, the humility, all actions without knowing whether there could ever be a positive outcome after the earliest of mistakes.
I felt very intrigued by it and I was glad to see it's full circle in this trio.
I should have written this one ages ago, in the summer when it was still fully flushed in my head and I was head over heels in that latest Jeff Wheeler series. While I still have my low-graded complaint that Wheeler continues to establish archetypes/monsters/magical objects and then drag them into each of his next non-world-connect stories without much explanation (instead, relying on the audience to know them already from earlier reads)--
-- what I remember loving most of all in this series was that it took the villain role (that of the Hetaira) and reinventing it. Our main character was suddenly in those shoes and we got to watch her navigate what good and ill comes of being labeled/touched by the darkness of the world. The sacrifices, the outcasting, the humility, all actions without knowing whether there could ever be a positive outcome after the earliest of mistakes.
I felt very intrigued by it and I was glad to see it's full circle in this trio.