We pick up
the story a month after the battle between the troops of Gerard Montaigne and
the soldiers of the kingdom of Tamron where Raisa almost got captured. Raisa’s
been staying in a tavern in Fetters Ford for over a month now, in the hope that
someone will come to take her home, but at the same time terrified that the
assassins will find her. Her pseudonym Rebecca Morley is useless and she has to
take on a new, unknown identity to survive. The Crown Princess is particularly
worried that she will not make it back home in time and that her mother will
make her younger sister Mellony the new heir to the throne.
At the same
time Han Allister is traveling on the same route back to the Fells, summoned by
the clans to get ready for a fight against the magicians at court. Everywhere
Han asks about the fate of his good
friend Rebecca, who has become more than just a friend. Still in the dark about
her true identity, Han gets a few tip that might lead to her. What happened to
her? Was she really taken by Micah Bayar like Amon says?
Ultimately,
the two meet again in a predicament that could mean the death of one of them.
Will both survive? And how many attempts on her life can Raisa survive?
The
political intrigue is reaching a climax in this third book of the Seven Realms
series which, like its predecessors is a fantastic book that is very difficult
to put aside. A large part of the book goes deeper into the emotions of Han and
Raisa, the uncertainties for the future and the constant fear because death awaits
them around every corner.
It's nice
to see that after a series of 3 books the story is still on a very high level
and knows to deliver and doesn’t get boring. It happens far too often that a
story makes too many detours to drag it out over as many books as possible.
Seven
Realms never gets boring and makes you long for the next book that will be
published in the autumn (October) and will be called "The Crimson
Crown".
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