Heart of Vengeance by Lisa EdmondsMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Fantastic Venture into Other Realms
I love this series. It’s fantastic. It’s inventive, nuanced and filled with convincing emotion. It’s pretty much an ideal Urban Fantasy book.
This book is the sixth in the series and instead of doing a straight continuation of the plot, there is a big side trip into another realm, for Alice. Valas had been dangling the journey through a mirror into another realm for several books now. Alice agreed to make the journey in order save Sean a while ago and Valas decided now was the time to make the journey. Still filled with the dark magic from the sorcerer she fought in the previous book and accompanied by Malcolm the ghost and her golden wolf, the manifestation of her shifter magic, and loaded up with spells from her witch friend, Alice sets off into the unknown.
When Alice arrives she meets Lucy a Guardian, or someone who fights the nasties that inhabit the realm. Her wolf also manifests and stays manifested. The realm is broken and the magic is strange but it seems like her wolf knows where to go and Lucy is willing to give them a ride in the right direction. This however is the easy part of the journey.
This was an epic journey in the grand style of fantasy novels of the past. Alice found companions, dug deep into herself, faced the temptation of darkness and battled the big bad monster. It was fabulous.
Though I missed Sean and the other members of the pack, in a way it was nice to take a sideways trip into uncharted territory and the Alice of book 6 is a much more amenable character than in book 1, and accepts help with a lot more grace. I love how this series has shown Alice changing and growing through her experiences. She isn’t static and predictable which makes her far more interesting to spend time with.
I can’t wait to see what happens next, as her story seems to get more and more interesting as she has more to lose. I’d also love to see a companion series that delves into life in the Broken Realm and follows Lucy, Ronan the bounty hunter and the alternate version of Charles. I think that would definitely be a series worth reading.
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