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missflyer 's review for:
The Night Realm
by Annette Marie
Clio wants nothing more to go home to the Overworld. So when her half-brother Bastian asks her to do favors and little missions, she is always ready. Until this latest mission - he wants her to go down to the Underworld and using her special daemon abilities, steal some powerful magical weapons to keep their land from going into war. She's willing to do anything to please Bastian if it means getting to end her exile on Earth, even go to the heart of Hades and where they create all their biggest weapons: Chrysalis. What she doesn't expect to find down there is the alluring incubus Lyre, who doesn't seem to quite fit in with what she would expect of master weavers of death magic to be like.
I can't decide if I am glad I read this after Steel & Stone, or if I wish I had read it before, as it is chronologically first - mostly as it relates to what we know of Lyre, but also as it relates to characters surviving. Clio is deceptively strong, except she lacks training and general experience. It'll be interesting to see how she grows. Lyre, on the other hand, I'm just enjoying learning more about him and his (twisted and dark) family and life – and definitely enjoying seeing him fleshed out!
Favorite quotes:
He pressed his cheek against her hair and didn’t tell her that for some—for too many—blood ties meant nothing in the face of ambition. – page 289
Typos:
Could this where he’d hidden one of the deadly prototypes he’d mentioned? – page 198 – should be “Could this be where…”
Her gift for seeing and mimicking worked whether she understood how the spell was made. – page 200 – should probably be “whether or not” or “how the spell was made or not.”
A musician in the corner played a somber ballade on an unfamiliar string instrument. – page 208 - Ballade can be right, but ballad (more common, I think) would be too.
I can't decide if I am glad I read this after Steel & Stone, or if I wish I had read it before, as it is chronologically first - mostly as it relates to what we know of Lyre, but also as it relates to characters surviving. Clio is deceptively strong, except she lacks training and general experience. It'll be interesting to see how she grows. Lyre, on the other hand, I'm just enjoying learning more about him and his (twisted and dark) family and life – and definitely enjoying seeing him fleshed out!
Favorite quotes:
He pressed his cheek against her hair and didn’t tell her that for some—for too many—blood ties meant nothing in the face of ambition. – page 289
Typos:
Could this where he’d hidden one of the deadly prototypes he’d mentioned? – page 198 – should be “Could this be where…”
Her gift for seeing and mimicking worked whether she understood how the spell was made. – page 200 – should probably be “whether or not” or “how the spell was made or not.”
A musician in the corner played a somber ballade on an unfamiliar string instrument. – page 208 - Ballade can be right, but ballad (more common, I think) would be too.