I'm logging this as a DNF, but also filing it on my "maybe try again later" shelf. So I guess the timing wasn’t entirely bad, after all. Frankly, I appreciated that note of hope more than just on a fictional level. The world situation isn’t all that much changed by the end of the story, but I was still left feeling confident that all would end well.
One thing I really appreciate about this author is that she manages to deliver a happy ending even in the middle of a pretty bleak setting and she makes it feel hopeful in a realistic way. The worldbuilding was original and amazing, as it always is with this author, and I loved the relationship between Arashan and Tirellion. Thankfully, the characters and the plot kept me engaged, and I was mostly able to immerse myself in the story despite the inconvenience of the setting. I struggled a lot with that aspect, but any trouble I had with it was due to me, my state of mind, the current situation, it had nothing to do with the writing or the book. Stumbling on descriptions of a world where one of the Seven Courts had moved war to the others and invaded pretty much the entire world, with the characters fighting and resisting, effectively living for years in a war with no end in sight, wouldn’t have been my first choice, if I’d known about it in advance (I know, that’s what I get for not rereading blurbs). I could’ve certainly picked this book at a better time. This book was originally part of the Love's Landscapes challenge by the M/M Romance Group on Goodreads. And Shan's heart, too, is at threat as the journey forces him into close proximity with the friend who has never noticed just how much Shan loves him. When a change in enemy tactics and a prophecy compels both men on a quest to reach Tirellian's sister, the Queen of Lightning, where she is still frozen to her lost throne, they must travel together through the treacherous snowscape of the frozen realm.īut their path is dangerous, from the suspicion of the locals to the dark threat of the blighted Ice Knights, whose very touch is deadly. Stoic Tirellian, last paladin of the lost Court of Lightning, is the Shadowguard's champion and Shan's dearest friend. Inventor Shan is the Shadowguard's chief mechanic, but he has never crossed the channel into snowbound enemy territory. Beseiged and fighting for their existence, they have one advantage-the mechanical wings which allow the spies of their Shadowguard to fly into enemy territory to sabotage the enemy.
In a world ruled by ice, the Court of the Wind is the last stronghold of summer.
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