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A review by jessicafee86
An Ill-Fated Sky by Darrell Drake
5.0
More in depth review to come in the next couple of days. I enjoyed A Star Reckoner's Lot, but An Ill Fated Sky is even better!
Edit: Full Review
My least favorite character in the first book of the series (A Star Reckoner's Lot) was Tirdad, so it's no wonder that I waited for over a year to read the sequel that follows his life. But oh, how wrong I was, and I so wish that I hadn't put it off for so long. Before I get started I need to warn you that this review has some pretty mighty spoilers for the first book, and the first book is well worth reading, so skip this review and go check it out!
Now for the rest of the review:
An Ill Fated Sky starts exactly where A Star Reckoner's lot ended, with Ashtadukht dying and leaving us alone with boring, honorable Tirdad, and he's in pretty bad shape. Not only is he alone and emotionally destroyed over murdering his cousin, but he's also somehow inherited her planet reckoning abilities through the sword that killed her.
What happens next is hard to tell without spoilers, and minor as they may be, it can still change some of the feelings that you have while reading the book. So I'm going to keep my summary of the plot as is. In the end I found myself becoming way more attached to the character of Tirdad than I thought I would be. In the first book I found it difficult to become attached to anyone that wasn't Waray, but An Ill Fated Sky brought all three of it's main characters to life. I loved them all and felt a real connection with Tirdad. Life can be dark and full of suffering, but if you have the ones you love by your side, none of that matters. This is a love story, a redemption story, and a bloody, epic adventure all rolled into one. I can't wait to see where the next book leads.
Full review can be found on the blog: http://bookstocombattherain.blogspot.com/2018/06/an-ill-fated-sky-by-darrell-drake.html
Edit: Full Review
My least favorite character in the first book of the series (A Star Reckoner's Lot) was Tirdad, so it's no wonder that I waited for over a year to read the sequel that follows his life. But oh, how wrong I was, and I so wish that I hadn't put it off for so long. Before I get started I need to warn you that this review has some pretty mighty spoilers for the first book, and the first book is well worth reading, so skip this review and go check it out!
Now for the rest of the review:
An Ill Fated Sky starts exactly where A Star Reckoner's lot ended, with Ashtadukht dying and leaving us alone with boring, honorable Tirdad, and he's in pretty bad shape. Not only is he alone and emotionally destroyed over murdering his cousin, but he's also somehow inherited her planet reckoning abilities through the sword that killed her.
What happens next is hard to tell without spoilers, and minor as they may be, it can still change some of the feelings that you have while reading the book. So I'm going to keep my summary of the plot as is. In the end I found myself becoming way more attached to the character of Tirdad than I thought I would be. In the first book I found it difficult to become attached to anyone that wasn't Waray, but An Ill Fated Sky brought all three of it's main characters to life. I loved them all and felt a real connection with Tirdad. Life can be dark and full of suffering, but if you have the ones you love by your side, none of that matters. This is a love story, a redemption story, and a bloody, epic adventure all rolled into one. I can't wait to see where the next book leads.
Full review can be found on the blog: http://bookstocombattherain.blogspot.com/2018/06/an-ill-fated-sky-by-darrell-drake.html