A review by kitvaria_sarene
In Solitude's Shadow by David Green
4.0
This is a novella that packs in as much world, characters and political machinations as a lot of big tomes.
While in some points it made me lack a little bit of depth, mostly it worked out really well, and made for a really fast paced and engaging read that drew me in very quickly!
It's on the darker side with elves an enslaved race and some mysterious "banished" people being kept at bay by a big fortress. Quite a lot of death, fights and war, so not for the faint of heart.
We have multiple POV characters, and I liked all of them. It took me a bit longer to warm up to some than others, but in the end I was happy to read about any of them, and cared for what would happen next. For such a short book it was great to see how those different paths slowly run together throughout the story.
I also appreciated the handling of some traumatic experiences in the characters past, and how it still shapes them to this day.
I liked the magic in here, and the mystery of it. There's no hard magic system, it's more the very soft and mysterious kind - and the mystery there, later in the book, definitely was a main hook for me! I can't wait to see more of that!
All in all a really good book that easily held my attention all the way through, and had some unexpected twists and turns along the way.
While in some points it made me lack a little bit of depth, mostly it worked out really well, and made for a really fast paced and engaging read that drew me in very quickly!
It's on the darker side with elves an enslaved race and some mysterious "banished" people being kept at bay by a big fortress. Quite a lot of death, fights and war, so not for the faint of heart.
We have multiple POV characters, and I liked all of them. It took me a bit longer to warm up to some than others, but in the end I was happy to read about any of them, and cared for what would happen next. For such a short book it was great to see how those different paths slowly run together throughout the story.
I also appreciated the handling of some traumatic experiences in the characters past, and how it still shapes them to this day.
I liked the magic in here, and the mystery of it. There's no hard magic system, it's more the very soft and mysterious kind - and the mystery there, later in the book, definitely was a main hook for me! I can't wait to see more of that!
All in all a really good book that easily held my attention all the way through, and had some unexpected twists and turns along the way.