Reviewed: June 8th, 2025
Released: October 25th, 2021
Genre: Epic Fantasy
Three thousand years of tradition torn asunder. When the truth comes out, will a hero emerge to pick up the pieces?
Dashira Eisenheart takes ultimate comfort in her community. So she’s thrilled when her brother ascends to the coveted order chosen to protect the world from safely sealed-away, millennia-old, dangerous magic. But her faith in her beloved parents’ loyalty cracks after she spies her mother sneaking about town to meet with the enemy.
Striving to stay focused on her own academic studies, Dashira becomes caught in family tensions that soon reach a boiling point. And as her father’s Brotherhood and her mother’s rebel group head toward a cataclysmic clash, the young seeker finds herself trapped by conflicting choices.
Will she face her fears and accept her role in a grand destiny?
Helen’s Thoughts: 5/5
A story to keep you thinking as you meet a family being torn apart when they lose their son as a sacrifice to the great sphere. Morlas is grief stricken and angry, her husband, Hansa feels blessed by his son’s ascension and hopeful that his son being chosen means he will be able to progress through the hierarchy of the Brotherhood of the Spires. Their daughter Dashira believes she failed to protect her brother, but desperately wants to believe in the Sphere.
And so, we enter a brilliantly developed, complex world. A world of many secrets, where not all is as it seems. Willis slowly reveals more as the family drifts apart, each hiding their secrets, each with their own objective. Morlas, prepared to do anything to retrieve her son. Hansa, eager to rise higher within the Brotherhood, and Dashira, wising for her family to be whole again, but drawn into the subterfuge and unable to ignore what she discovers.
A well-written start to the Sphere saga, with plenty of twists and turns to keep you turning the pages. Morlas’ journey, for both acceptance and the ability to save her son is long and treacherous. Dashira’s journey is more fraught as all she ever believed in is stripped away. And entwined around them all, Hansa strives for more and more power. Central to this web of deception is what happened to Gambor and all the other Sphere-blessed and will lead to a final confrontation that will change their world forever.
A brilliantly conceived world, with so many political machinations it will keep your mind spinning and questions flowing. A complex story which will keep you riveted to the end.
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If you enjoy fantasy books then you will love my epic fantasy Sentinal series or the Romantic Fantasy SoulMist series and now Harmony, a dystopian science fantasy.
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