A review by druv
Floodtide by Heather Rose Jones
4.0
Floodtide takes place in Heather Rose Jones' Alpennia universe, an early 19th century alt-Europe. It's one of my favorite series and it focuses on women exploring miracles, mysteries, and alchemy, as well as their romances with other women. I can recommend the entire series, and this book, without any reservations!
Floodtide switches the perspective quite a bit, focusing on a young maid who does not have the privilege or connections previous main characters have had or ended up with. She has to fight for everything she gets and has no safety net for what she's doing, raising the stakes for the challenges she faces. Those challenges are also less immediately esoteric, focusing more on the challenges of everyday people on the "wrong side of the tracks", or river, as it were.
This is a worthy sequel which I plowed through in a day (sadly, I want more time in this universe :'( ). Buy it!
Floodtide switches the perspective quite a bit, focusing on a young maid who does not have the privilege or connections previous main characters have had or ended up with. She has to fight for everything she gets and has no safety net for what she's doing, raising the stakes for the challenges she faces. Those challenges are also less immediately esoteric, focusing more on the challenges of everyday people on the "wrong side of the tracks", or river, as it were.
This is a worthy sequel which I plowed through in a day (sadly, I want more time in this universe :'( ). Buy it!