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ednapellen's review against another edition
5.0
Actual rating: 6 solid stars
Oh my goodness oh my goodness oh my goodness.
I don't even know where to start.
I loved Colors of Fear. I liked Flames of Courage. And I adore Sounds of Deceit.
For a short story, I paused to take notes a lot, scribbling down awesome lines and impressions throughout the reading process.
Like in Colors of Fear, I knew I loved the main character by page 10, and (coincidentally also like with Colors of Fear) the main character's brother as well. They were both fun, endearing, and interesting and fit exactly the way they should.
And then it just kept getting better. The magic system was fascinating and felt very real, the atmosphere throughout the story was vivid, the action scenes were very well done (as I'm coming to expect from Hannah Heath), the characters written very well, and the emotion conveyed excellently.
It's hard to say if I love this more than or equal to Colors of Fear, but I think it's more by just a bit. And that's got to be because of the religious representation in Sounds of Deceit. It was so real and so relatable, so encouraging and comforting in large part because it was so relatable.
I am incredibly excited to see where these stories, 1-3, go next.
(also with the excitement and obsession that I've got now, I think I've officially joined the fandom.)
Oh my goodness oh my goodness oh my goodness.
I don't even know where to start.
I loved Colors of Fear. I liked Flames of Courage. And I adore Sounds of Deceit.
For a short story, I paused to take notes a lot, scribbling down awesome lines and impressions throughout the reading process.
Like in Colors of Fear, I knew I loved the main character by page 10, and (coincidentally also like with Colors of Fear) the main character's brother as well. They were both fun, endearing, and interesting and fit exactly the way they should.
And then it just kept getting better. The magic system was fascinating and felt very real, the atmosphere throughout the story was vivid, the action scenes were very well done (as I'm coming to expect from Hannah Heath), the characters written very well, and the emotion conveyed excellently.
It's hard to say if I love this more than or equal to Colors of Fear, but I think it's more by just a bit. And that's got to be because of the religious representation in Sounds of Deceit. It was so real and so relatable, so encouraging and comforting in large part because it was so relatable.
I am incredibly excited to see where these stories, 1-3, go next.
(also with the excitement and obsession that I've got now, I think I've officially joined the fandom.)
ettagrace's review against another edition
5.0
The third book in the series doesn’t take place in the same desert as Wanderer and Jayel’s stories. In a city controlled entirely by Elgar’s forces, Ailith and her brother Durran are ex-Hunters who struggle to survive by taking dangerous jobs from the remaining Faithful. Her powerful magic lets her perform incredible feats at the expense of her sanity, as the cacophony of noise that accompanies each spell causes her incapacitating brain-fog. She takes impulsive risks to distract herself from the lies and fear that rule her life, but that changes when they’re approached one night by Wymund – an acquaintance from their Hunter days. He asks them to join the group that plans to assassinate Elgar, but the siblings refuse to break their self-imposed exile.
As Ailith watches the suffering in the city, she keeps her head down. In the shadow of the clock-tower, she hides when she could help the Faithful being persecuted, because she is afraid of her magic, and is losing faith herself. With the encouragement of her elderly priestess friend, Nyara, and the long pressures of her past, she reaches a breaking point.
“I want our pain to be worth something… I want to stand tall.”
That night, they take out the guards, free the Faithful caged within, and destroy the clock tower that tormented her with its noise all along. She’s taken the leap of faith, and though we don’t know where it will take her, there is a promise that her power will prove to be a blessing in the end, when she joins forces with the other protagonists to set their world to rights.
I love this series so much! Faye's worldbuilding is so effortlessly conveyed without info dumping and it's such a vivid and viscerally real world. Every word feels intentionally crafted to create emotion. You relate to all the POV characters within a page of introduction and their arcs are set up to tell SUCH a powerful story - and this is only the beginning. Looking forward to book 4!
As Ailith watches the suffering in the city, she keeps her head down. In the shadow of the clock-tower, she hides when she could help the Faithful being persecuted, because she is afraid of her magic, and is losing faith herself. With the encouragement of her elderly priestess friend, Nyara, and the long pressures of her past, she reaches a breaking point.
“I want our pain to be worth something… I want to stand tall.”
That night, they take out the guards, free the Faithful caged within, and destroy the clock tower that tormented her with its noise all along. She’s taken the leap of faith, and though we don’t know where it will take her, there is a promise that her power will prove to be a blessing in the end, when she joins forces with the other protagonists to set their world to rights.
I love this series so much! Faye's worldbuilding is so effortlessly conveyed without info dumping and it's such a vivid and viscerally real world. Every word feels intentionally crafted to create emotion. You relate to all the POV characters within a page of introduction and their arcs are set up to tell SUCH a powerful story - and this is only the beginning. Looking forward to book 4!
storiesforhisglory's review
5.0
Wow
This was awesome. Painful in parts. But what an alive story. I want to see where Ailith goes and does. The characters in this series are unique, in more ways than one. Keep writing.
This was awesome. Painful in parts. But what an alive story. I want to see where Ailith goes and does. The characters in this series are unique, in more ways than one. Keep writing.
rmarcher's review against another edition
5.0
As always with Hannah Heath's writing, the worldbuilding and characters in this story were spectacular. A kick-butt main character, awesome sibling dynamics, and a further dive into the world of The Shard make this story an instant favorite.
ebdawson's review against another edition
4.0
Stunningly unique and original, full of great lines and complex characters. The magic system that Heath has created is utterly intriguing.
I found it a bit more difficult to orient myself to the worldbuilding and character backstories in this one, than in Heath's other stories. I also struggled a bit with the story as a whole: the arc was a bit muddied.
But overall I enjoyed it and it is an intriguing addition to The Terebinth Tree Chronicles.
I found it a bit more difficult to orient myself to the worldbuilding and character backstories in this one, than in Heath's other stories. I also struggled a bit with the story as a whole: the arc was a bit muddied.
But overall I enjoyed it and it is an intriguing addition to The Terebinth Tree Chronicles.
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