This book started slow for me, but I was becoming ensnared, page by page. I tried to put it down for a day or two during a very hectic time, and instead found myself sneaking in a page here and there because I needed to see how the book was progressing. Excellent writing by a master storyteller. The creeping evil of Somerled's childhood adventures and the eventual awakening of Eyvind to his own and his friend's true natures is skillfully woven into the story. The fact that the heroine, Nessa, doesn't enter the book till somewhere around midpoint enhances rather than detracts from her importance and power in the plot while allowing the male characters to be developed much more fully than in the Sevenwaters trilogy. An excellent read if you can tolerate Eyvind's nearly fatal trust and refusal to see what is around him for the first portion of the book. (It was very frustrating to me.)

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Amazing book. I found it incredible. I went and got the sequel and am reading that now and will have it posted up once i am done with it.

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