A review by impreader
The Broken Lands by Kate Milford

4.0

"Best not to go looking for yourself on the roads. The view changes, but there's no guarantee you will." So says a roamer of a character in Milford's The Broken Lands, and it's a theme that she set bloody well throughout. On top of madcap chases, peril, firecrackers and intrigue -- not to mention the textured taupe of State-side post-Civil War rot and unrest -- Milford neatly wove the self-discovery thread. It climbed through each character, uniquely, and came out to the aforementioned quote for each: none grew or changed, or attained their goal, without planting their feet and facing THEMSELVES -- because it was their fear, their unwillingness, their pasts, that ultimately posed a harsher challenge than the blood and danger and supernatural tricks outside.

I'd go more in depth, but to be precise and summarise, I'd end up giving away all the twists. And that's the end of the world on a good read, da?