It's like the start of a bad joke: a Master of Tomes, his apprentice, and ninety world-saving records get lost at sea.
Mei Li really wishes the joke wasn't her life. For two years she's been stranded in a remote village with no knowledge of where her master is or what's going on in the world. What she does know is one: she refuses to be sacrificed to the "god" the villagers think live on the mountain, two: she fully plans on negotiating with said "god" (who, luckily for her, turns out to be a dragon more than happy to rescue her).
Her relief over being rescued is short lived when she learns that her master is still lost, along with the tomes detailing how to reseal and fix all the upcoming problems for the next decade. And at least four world disasters are due to be prevented in the next two months. To make matters worse, the Tomes Masters are the only people in the world who carry the knowledge of how to reseal the pesky problems like five-thousand-year-old sleeping demons and disintegrating harbor walls.
With her master gone, everyone is looking to Mei Li for answers she doesn't have, but still has to procure. Her options are to solve the disasters—with high potential for the world ending—or somehow find Master and the missing tomes.
Right now, Mei Li wants to go back in time and punch her six-year-old self for being an idiot. Being able to read books all day is not worth the stress of dealing with ancient, evil things on a regular basis.
My first review of Tomes Apprentice
My Review:
Wow, I just loved reading this book! It was such a great read, and it was so great to be with these characters in this world again! I know I only read it less than a month ago, but it got under my skin, it's going to be a top read of 2020, and I had to reread it again, because it was that good!
One question I have is about the Walls to Tanguay. Mei says that the original Tome who was part of the Walls creation was miserly with his words and didn’t mention the full process of making the foundations. But it's mentioned that later Tomes who had any notes, they'd add it. Either that didn't happen here even though the walls have to be done every 200 years or this time, the spell is so degraded that it's basically like they have to start from scratch which nobody else had done. My question is, which one is it?
For the Lost Souls Bridge, I'm wondering about if a possible solution is to put it back to rights, so it's only for souls, not for living beings. Because then they're not destroying it, letting loose all those lost souls. Just figuring out how to do it, and having the power, would be the question marks on that solution.
Mei, after this whole situation, and maybe before, is against the secrecy of the Tomes, as well as how magic ruins things as much as it fixes, and if previous generations had dealt with problems instead of sealing them, they wouldn't be in the mess they are in now. So fixing the Lost Souls Bridge would kinda be a perfect solution for her there.
Loved this book so much, it was fantastic, and I'm so excited for the sequel!
Author: Honor Raconteur
Series: The Tomes of Kaleria #1
First Read: February 21st, 2020
Read: March 15th, 2020
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Rereading because I loved it, and it's a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2020 Book!
Publisher: Raconteur House LLC
Published: December 3rd 2019
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