This was a curious adventure with a wide range of fantastical characters and creatures intricately created to pull you fully into their realm. Whether you start at the beginning or the end (well, the beginning of book 3), you'll feel right at home...though as always the more the merrier when it comes to reading, thus you'll get a richer experience having the others under your belt. That being said...

I fully enjoyed this Fantasy tale of dark and light, good and evil, hidden futures and pasts that are revealed with time. I reveled in the night dances that dear Eliesmore had the pleasure of joining, once upon a time, while my heart sank at the loss of that unbridled joy for reasons unknown. I feared for his safety once he set out upon his journey, though he did not know it was truly his at the time, and gasped in despair when it seemed he had given up his own future for something less dangerous but oh-so-more detrimental for the world at large. I was curious to see if the Green People were really all they seemed, or simply hiding their true colors, so to speak. I was fit to be tied when it looked as though we might not reach the end we so desperately sought with the newly pledged One fighting on our side...but even at that darkest moment...hope still glimmered like a light in a fathomless night.

In the end, it was adventure worth taking with characters you'll grow to love, loathe, and something in between. I likened it to a Young Adult version of the LOTR in some ways, though obviously not a copy in the least and with its own brand of magic and wonder to enthrall, enchant, and otherwise ensnare the mind. A great pick for YA Fantasy fans, as well as those newer to the genre.


**ebook received for review ( )