A review by murmuration19
The Riddle by Alison Croggon

4.0

This second volume picks up considerably compared to the first book, The Naming, which I enjoyed but found to drag. Maerad makes mistakes and finds that she isn't awesome at everything, which was refreshing. We start to get into the meat of the story arc, and I was reading just to find out what would happen. I believe the next volume, The Crow, picks up Hem's story in the south, and that we won't rejoin Maerad until the fourth and final book, and that makes me sorry, as well as eager to get there.