The Void of Muirwood

Summer 2018; Trilogy review:

I should have written this one ages ago, in the summer when it was still fully flushed in my head and I was head over heels in that latest Jeff Wheeler series. While I still have my low-graded complaint that Wheeler continues to establish archetypes/monsters/magical objects and then drag them into each of his next non-world-connect stories without much explanation (instead, relying on the audience to know them already from earlier reads)--

-- what I remember loving most of all in this series was that it took the villain role (that of the Hetaira) and reinventing it. Our main character was suddenly in those shoes and we got to watch her navigate what good and ill comes of being labeled/touched by the darkness show more of the world. The sacrifices, the outcasting, the humility, all actions without knowing whether there could ever be a positive outcome after the earliest of mistakes.

I felt very intrigued by it and I was glad to see it's full circle in this trio. show less

I enjoyed the characters, the story, the world building. But those religious overtones got under my skin in a bad way.

Happy ending for most

Like his other series this on was engaging and moved me quickly through another three volumes. Again, I really like the authors historical origins but was most moved by good references (unstated of course) to scripture ( halting the sun being the most obvious). I don’t really think I’m done with Mr Wheeler. Back to the Kindle library for me.

Fitting finish of the Covenant of Muirwood trilogy.

I loved this book, the whole trilogy is awesome and I'm looking forward to reading more by this author.