I managed to read this book that had been on my bookshelf for like 3 years and…I dont know why I didn’t read it sooner, maybe because it’s a trilogy and I didn’t want to start another series but I’m glad I finally read it.
It’s been a while since I read a new fantasy book (the last fantasy books I’ve read had been rereads), and at the beginning it took me a little while to get into this book, but then I was hooked, I’ll let you the synopsis here:
“The great city of Ebora once glittered with gold. Now its streets are stalked by wolves. Tormalin the Oathless has no taste for sitting around waiting to die while the realm of his storied ancestors falls to pieces – talk about a guilt trip. Better to be amongst the living, where there are taverns full of women and wine. When eccentric explorer, Lady Vincenza ‘Vintage’ de Grazon, offers him employment, he sees an easy way out. Even when they are joined by a fugitive witch with a tendency to set things on fire, the prospect of facing down monsters and retrieving ancient artefacts is preferable to the abomination he left behind. But not everyone is willing to let the Eboran empire collapse, and the adventurers are quickly drawn into a tangled conspiracy of magic and war. For the Jure’lia are coming, and the Ninth Rain must fall…“
There’s an ‘enemies to lovers’ romance that was quite ‘meh’ for me, but there’s another romance that has me very interested in it but we don’t see virtually anything of it in this book, so I’ll have to read the next book soon.
I found the story interesting, but I think that this book was just kind of an introduction to what’s going to happen in the next two books, because the ‘big thing’ happens just at the end of the book, but I enjoyed this book and I want to read the next one soon, it’s good to be back to reading more new fantasy!
