Read
In small chunks as breaks between homework.
Bottom Line
As with Owlflight, not her best work. Worth reading if you've gotten through Owlflight and are curious to find out what happened to Darian.
Full Review
This books picks up about four years after Owlflight ends. Darian has spend the intervening years with the Hawkbrothers, learning a bit more about controlling his mage gift and growing from a constantly whining teenager into an only sometimes whining adult. Meanwhile, as Darian's been traipsing about the countryside, Keisha has stepped into the role of village healer. She's got the healing gift, but without training she's in danger of going nuts.
The main problem with this book is that it doesn't get going until about two-thirds of the way through. That's right. Most of this book is exposition - interesting exposition, to be sure, but nothing really happens until the same barbarian tribes that trashed the village the first time around are spotted coming back. Once Darian, Keisha, and the Hawkbrothers meet the barbarians, the story really starts to pick up. Unfortunately, all the action takes place in a few chapters at the end of the book.
At the end of the day, I find myself hoping that the last book in the trilogy is going to focus in on the interaction between these two different cultures. Otherwise, I'm afraid I may be in for another disappointment.
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