More than a century has passed since Liliath crept into the empty sarcophagus of Saint Marguerite, fleeing the Fall of Ystara. But she emerges from her magical sleep still beautiful, looking no more than nineteen, and once again renews her single-minded quest to be united with her lover, Palleniel, the archangel of Ystara.
A seemingly impossible quest, but Liliath is one of the greatest practitioners of angelic magic to have ever lived, summoning angels and forcing them to do her bidding.
Liliath knew that most of the inhabitants of Ystara died from the Ash Blood plague or were transformed into beastlings, and she herself led the survivors who fled into neighboring Sarance. Now she learns that angels shun the Ystaran's descendants. If they are touched by angelic magic, their blood will turn to ash. They are known as Refusers, and can only live the most lowly lives.
But Liliath cares nothing for the descendants of her people, save how they can serve her. It is four young Sarancians who hold her interest: Simeon, a studious doctor-in-training; Henri, a dedicated fortune hunter; Agnez, an adventurous musketeer cadet; and Dorotea, an icon-maker and scholar of angelic magic. They are the key to her quest.
The four feel a strange kinship from the moment they meet, but do not know why, or suspect their importance. All become pawns in Liliath's grand scheme to fulfill her destiny and be united with the love of her life. No matter the cost to everyone else. . .
My Review:
This book was fantastic! I enjoyed this world of angels and icons so much, it's so interesting! I did take a little while to get into this book, I read the first 30 pages, put it down, and had to start over. But once I did, the pages just flew right on by, and I devoured this book!
We know that Liliath has a plan in mind, and that while she expected there to be hundreds of candidates, there were only 4. And we got to alternate between those four people's POV's and get to know them which was great, they were really interesting and diverse characters, and some of Liliath. So it was great to know what everybody was doing on all sides, and see things coming together! It was so fantastic!
This book changed this world. And whit the ending, it's like, all that pain, misery and death, and for what? Just a little sad, and there's going to be a lot of rebuilding, and it's going to be difficult and painful. But at least they got through it, and it wasn't worse!
Dorotea brings up a number of questions-how did angels come about, how did the first people creating icons see whatever it was that they put on the icons that called the specific angels? We don't really get answers, just some ideas. I would've liked to know more, or maybe a sequel or another book in this world, because I just want to know more!
This book was a fantastic read, and I really need to read some more Garth Nix books!
Author: Garth Nix
Read: February 24th, 2020
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: Sounded really good and it's a SAC 2020 Book!
Publisher: Katherine Tegan Books
Published: October 1st 2019
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