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Laddar... The Soul of Power (2019)av Callie Bates
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This is the third and final book in the Waking Land series. This was by far my least favorite book in this series. I really didn't enjoy Sophy as a character and liked the politics she was enmeshed in even less. Things got better about 70-80% of the way into the book, but I still didn't enjoy it all that much. I never like reading books that are solely about politics and that is what this one was. I also felt like Sophy didn’t treat the characters that were trying to help and support her very well; I just didn’t like her character much. To be fair she pretty much never gets a break and is constantly having people criticize and pick at her; it was an uncomfortable and depressing read for me. Elanna and Jance joined late in the story and this improved things some. The series wrap up decently and it ended okay. This book took a long time to read and I almost stopped reading it a couple times. I pushed ahead because it's the final book in the series. I kind of wish I hadn't read it at all...although it does tie up things at the end. Overall this was my least favorite book in the series. I didn’t enjoy Sophy or the situation she was in and found the whole read to be slow and depressing. It does tie up the story though which was nice. Overall I found the final book to this trilogy quite good. It wrapped up all the loose ends nicely. I only wish that the story had focused more on Elanna since she was the main character in the first book and somewhat the second book. I don't think I've read a series where the focus of what I thought was the main character moves onto another character so completely. Other than that I thought the storyline was fantastic and I found myself mentally rooting for the heroes of the story. Makes me wish someone would "wake the land" in the real world. Definitely worth reading. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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"When Sophy Dunbarron, the king's illegitimate daughter, assumes the throne, she must learn to embrace her own powers in the riveting conclusion to the trilogy that began with The Waking Land and The Memory of Fire. Sophy Dunbarron has always felt like an imposter. Separated from her birth mother, raised by parents mourning the loss of their true daughter, and unacknowledged by her father, Sophy only desires one thing: a place and a family to call her own. But fate has other ideas. Caught up in Elanna Valtai's revolution, Sophy has become the reigning monarch of a once-divided country--a role she has been groomed her whole life to fill. But wearing a crown is quite a different thing to actually keeping a crown. With an influx of magic-bearing refugees pouring across the border, resources already thinned by war are stretched to the breaking point. Half the nobility in her court want her deposed, and the other half question her every decision. And every third person seems to be spontaneously manifesting magical powers. When Elanna is captured and taken to Paladis, Sophy's last ally seems to have vanished. Now it is up to her alone to navigate a political maze that becomes more complex and thorny by the day. And worse, Sophy is hiding a huge secret--one that could destroy her tenuous hold on the crown"-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Meanwhile, there is the imminent threat of invasion, the need to find allies, the awakening of magic in the people, the fear that awakening magic causes, the shortages caused trade routs being shut down, and gathering rebellion. Add to that a huge portion of self-doubt and we’ve got trouble in the waking land.
In The Soul of Power Bates reprises the theme that unites all three books in her series, the need to conquer your own fears and find your own power. Sophy’s weakness is deferring to others and not trusting her own judgment. When she comes into her own, when she is decisive and recognizes her own power, she is so much more successful.
This final book in the series is a satisfying end. Sophy struggles with how to show her love for the people, how to unite two countries equitably, and how to encourage self-rule and a form of democracy in a kingdom. These aren’t easy problems in real life, add magic to the mix and it’s even trickier.
I enjoyed this book and the others in the series. They are thoughtful books that struggle with real questions in a fantasy world. They are fast-paced and full of action, adventure, romance, and intrigue. What more could you ask for?
The Soul of Power will be released June 4th. I received an e-galley from the publisher through NetGalley.
The Soul of Power at Del Rey | Penguin Random House
Callie Bates author site
The Waking Land review
The Memory of Fire review
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