Reviewed: June 18th, 2025
Released: August 13th, 2019
Genre: Epic Fantasy
Phenomenal power. Cursed for his father’s sins.
Marshal lives in magically-enforced silence, unable to communicate with those around him. When he discovers he’s also heir to immense magical power, he sets out on a quest to escape his curse, and maybe find a way to end the corrupt system that gave it to him.
But his half-brother, wanting the power for himself, dispatches a leper assassin to kill Marshal and those he loves.
Seri wants to use the system to become the most powerful mage in history. But her ambitions are disrupted when the earth itself begins to shake. The magic that holds the world together is failing, and the combined power of all the mages is not enough to save it. And then someone begins murdering mages.
Manipulated by outside forces, stalked by murderous foes and monsters, Marshal and Seri each must learn how to use their unique abilities before it’s too late. Dark powers from another realm are watching them. Watching and planning…
Helen’s Thoughts: 5/5
A story of two halves with two protagonists each with a part to play. Each has a journey, and much to learn, though what their purpose is, we will have to wait and see.
An interesting world, with an unusual magic system, where magic has been usurped and twisted unnaturally, destroying one realm, and placing the other under stress. Crimes are paid for in curses, only the curses are placed on their first born, not on the perpetrator. And if you save a life, then you become bound to that person until they repay the debt.
Marshal is cursed. He has no voice, no way to communicate, and when he saves Victor’s life, Victor is bound to him. They join Aelia, Marshal’s mother on a journey to find a way to get Marshal’s curse lifted. Marshal is on a quest he doesn’t understand. Victor has no choice but to follow due to the binding, and his growth arc is one of the gems in this book.
Seri travels to the island of Zes Sivas, the home of the high mages, intent on learning how to become a mage herself. But the island is collapsing, earth tremors are destroying the land, and now master mages are being killed. Seri has a mystery to solve while learning the skills of the mage.
Both have much to learn, not only about magic, but also about the world around them. Plenty of twist and turns, complex political machinations, along with sword fights, and magical confrontations. A truly epic tale to draw you in and keep you turning the pages.
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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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