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A review by sylvilel
Amber & Dusk by Lyra Selene
3.0
I’m really very happily surprised about this.
Owlcrate has been doing overall much of the young-girl-caught-at-court-concept lately. There is always the promise of political conflict and war, but it always falls short, as if the writers are afraid to get their hands fictionally bloody.
But Lyra Selene isn’t afraid to pay the price that revolution costs, and in this story hope and wonder and magic wars with darkness, despair and pain, almost on a psychological level.
The characters and their relations feel pretty authentic. I like that Sylvie is pictured as ambitious and proud without there being made excuses for it. She is angry and she is stubborn and she makes mistakes, with no little consequence.
Selene’s prose is a bit flowery, but I can live with that because the rest is so good. This might actually be a new favorite.
Owlcrate has been doing overall much of the young-girl-caught-at-court-concept lately. There is always the promise of political conflict and war, but it always falls short, as if the writers are afraid to get their hands fictionally bloody.
But Lyra Selene isn’t afraid to pay the price that revolution costs, and in this story hope and wonder and magic wars with darkness, despair and pain, almost on a psychological level.
The characters and their relations feel pretty authentic. I like that Sylvie is pictured as ambitious and proud without there being made excuses for it. She is angry and she is stubborn and she makes mistakes, with no little consequence.
Selene’s prose is a bit flowery, but I can live with that because the rest is so good. This might actually be a new favorite.