![]() ![]() Some things, it seems, run too close to the bone to change no matter how much you want them to. With the rage and terror in her heart, the limits of her knowledge and her experience so miserably evident, Hesina turns to a Soothsayer who puts her on the path of Akira, a convicted criminal whose past and motivations are cloaked in secrecy.īut in doing so, Hesina risks treason. ![]() ![]() But the truth of it had already sunk into the center of Hesina and broken open, flooding her with a new certainty: her father has been murdered and the need to seek justice for him sang bright in her. Then, too soon, it is neatened, pressed and cast away without a slight crease in it. ![]() Hesina finds herself thrust into a tale she hardly understands when news of the king’s death-her father’s death-burst wildly and messily into Yan. Such was the churn and whirl of my thoughts and feelings that I was genuinely incapable of putting two ideas in a row, let alone come into any kind of conclusion-other than that I desperately need a sequel. What an ending! Such a succession of shattering revelations that sent a wave through my room so strong that I felt its ripple and was rocked on its mooring. Me, while sipping apple juice out of a champagne glass and gazing dramatically into the distance: I've had enough of cliffhangers. ![]()
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