This book contains mostly set up – introducing the reader to their key characters and planting some small seeds to build the anticipation and expectation for what we know will be coming and I am so here for it.

Pacat is a master of the slow burn and this looks to be no exception. It’s the sort of fight where they seem hopelessly outnumbered and there are twists and turns in the plot that flip everything you think you know upside down.Īnyone who has read Captive Prince knows that C.S. Will is preparing for an epic fight, to be able to defeat those that seek to raise the Dark King – and possibly the Dark King himself, should they fail. He is told to seek out an order who will protect him and it isn’t just protection he finds but friendship and knowledge. Will is a teenager who remembers spending years on the run with his mother. Someone seeks to raise the Dark King and are looking to completely exterminate anyone who has the blood of the Lady.

There was a great battle previously, between a Dark King and the Lady – a very good vs evil type of battle but now, some of the players are about to rise again. It’s a world where magic once was but is no longer, for the most part. The setting is a little more familiar to readers, being London although in the 1800s. For fans of that series, I think you are really going to enjoy this one. I found it really addictive and the story of Damianos and Laurent so compelling and the backdrop of political intrigue and war was so well done. I was very excited when I saw this book was coming out because I really loved the Captive Prince trilogy – much more than I anticipated when I picked up the first book. Will must stand with the last heroes of the Light to prevent the fate that destroyed their world from returning to destroy his own. But as the young descendants of Light and Dark step into their destined roles, old allegiances, old enmities and old flames are awakened. When an old servant tells him of his destiny to fight beside the Stewards, Will is ushered into a world of magic, where he must train to play a vital role in the oncoming battle against the Dark.Īs London is threatened by the Dark King’s return, the reborn heroes and villains of a long-forgotten war begin to draw battle lines. Sixteen-year-old dock boy Will is on the run, pursued by the men who killed his mother.

Only the Stewards remember, and they keep their centuries-long vigil, sworn to protect humanity if the Dark King ever returns.

Its heroes are dead, its halls are ruins, and its great battles between Light and Dark are forgotten. Blurb : The ancient world of magic is no more.

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