A review by tclinrow
The Relic Guild by Edward Cox
4.0
The first thing I want to mention was the top-notch narration, as I listened to it as an audio book; there was a whole host of different characters with individual personalities and backgrounds, and all of them were easily distinguished from one another thanks to the variety of tones and accents.
That said, the story was marvelously spun through a myriad of viewpoints, both current and past, weaved into a fascinating and detailed landscape. The Labyrinth was wonderfully imagined, and easy to lose yourself in. The characters were fantastically realised and a combination of hate to love and love to hate that really worked so perfectly for the story. The magic system is complex, but relatively easy to understand, although the author hasn't gone into a great deal of detail up until this point; it seems to be broadly divided into human magic, elf(?) magic and higher magic.
It ended with a lot of open story lines and unanswered questions, so I'm looking forward to the next part of the series.
That said, the story was marvelously spun through a myriad of viewpoints, both current and past, weaved into a fascinating and detailed landscape. The Labyrinth was wonderfully imagined, and easy to lose yourself in. The characters were fantastically realised and a combination of hate to love and love to hate that really worked so perfectly for the story. The magic system is complex, but relatively easy to understand, although the author hasn't gone into a great deal of detail up until this point; it seems to be broadly divided into human magic, elf(?) magic and higher magic.
It ended with a lot of open story lines and unanswered questions, so I'm looking forward to the next part of the series.