chayote reviewed Daughter of Redwinter by Ed McDonald
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Felt very slow and often repetitive and yet still had me interested enough to keep picking it up.
If you can see the dead, you will soon be one of them…
Raine can see - and more importantly, speak - to the dead. It’s a wretched gift with a death sentence that has her doing many dubious things to save her skin. Seeking refuge with a deluded cult is her latest bad, survival-related decision. But her rare act of kindness - rescuing an injured woman in the snow - is even worse.
Because the woman has escaped from Redwinter, the fortress-monastery of the Draoihn, warrior magicians …
If you can see the dead, you will soon be one of them…
Raine can see - and more importantly, speak - to the dead. It’s a wretched gift with a death sentence that has her doing many dubious things to save her skin. Seeking refuge with a deluded cult is her latest bad, survival-related decision. But her rare act of kindness - rescuing an injured woman in the snow - is even worse.
Because the woman has escaped from Redwinter, the fortress-monastery of the Draoihn, warrior magicians who answer to no king and who will stop at nothing to retrieve what she’s stolen. A battle, a betrayal, and a horrific revelation forces Raine to enter Redwinter. It becomes clear that her ability might save an entire nation.
Pity she might have to die for that to happen…
The first of a brilliant fantasy series about how one choice can change a universe by the author of the critically acclaimed Blackwing trilogy.
Paperback, 333 pages
English language
Published May 10, 2023 by Gollancz.
Felt very slow and often repetitive and yet still had me interested enough to keep picking it up.