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A review by druv
Mother of Souls by Heather Rose Jones
4.0
To begin with, it had some curious parallels to [b:Silver on the Road|20748097|Silver on the Road (The Devil's West, #1)|Laura Anne Gilman|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1426361800s/20748097.jpg|40079410], despite being very different books.
As in the earlier books, I like all of these characters, and the core of their struggles rings true - even apart from the overarching story, they all have their personal conflicts and motivations that keep making them strong characters you want to read more about. And this book certainly provided that in spades. Just like [b:The Mystic Marriage|22859852|The Mystic Marriage (Alpennia, #2)|Heather Rose Jones|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1463304263s/22859852.jpg|42427733], this one took a side character introduced in the last book and gave her more-or-less centre stage, and just like in that book, I think there was a good balance between including her and the other new character in the existing group while respecting the social barriers that exist in Alpennia.
The one negative thing I have to say is that it felt like the book tried to do to much. Sure, I want to hear about and get the perspectives of Margerit, Barbara, Jeanne, Antuniet, as well as the new characters, but they all had very significant events going on in their lives above and beyond the core narrative, and so it feels like I was missing out in some of the more severe time skips, which was a real pity.
I continue to thoroughly enjoy this series, and this will probably get me to re-read [b:Daughter of Mystery|18167557|Daughter of Mystery (Alpennia, #1)|Heather Rose Jones|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1387770689s/18167557.jpg|25533901] quite soon.
As in the earlier books, I like all of these characters, and the core of their struggles rings true - even apart from the overarching story, they all have their personal conflicts and motivations that keep making them strong characters you want to read more about. And this book certainly provided that in spades. Just like [b:The Mystic Marriage|22859852|The Mystic Marriage (Alpennia, #2)|Heather Rose Jones|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1463304263s/22859852.jpg|42427733], this one took a side character introduced in the last book and gave her more-or-less centre stage, and just like in that book, I think there was a good balance between including her and the other new character in the existing group while respecting the social barriers that exist in Alpennia.
The one negative thing I have to say is that it felt like the book tried to do to much. Sure, I want to hear about and get the perspectives of Margerit, Barbara, Jeanne, Antuniet, as well as the new characters, but they all had very significant events going on in their lives above and beyond the core narrative, and so it feels like I was missing out in some of the more severe time skips, which was a real pity.
I continue to thoroughly enjoy this series, and this will probably get me to re-read [b:Daughter of Mystery|18167557|Daughter of Mystery (Alpennia, #1)|Heather Rose Jones|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1387770689s/18167557.jpg|25533901] quite soon.