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A review by ettagrace
Sounds of Deceit by Faye Fite
5.0
The third book in the series doesn’t take place in the same desert as Wanderer and Jayel’s stories. In a city controlled entirely by Elgar’s forces, Ailith and her brother Durran are ex-Hunters who struggle to survive by taking dangerous jobs from the remaining Faithful. Her powerful magic lets her perform incredible feats at the expense of her sanity, as the cacophony of noise that accompanies each spell causes her incapacitating brain-fog. She takes impulsive risks to distract herself from the lies and fear that rule her life, but that changes when they’re approached one night by Wymund – an acquaintance from their Hunter days. He asks them to join the group that plans to assassinate Elgar, but the siblings refuse to break their self-imposed exile.
As Ailith watches the suffering in the city, she keeps her head down. In the shadow of the clock-tower, she hides when she could help the Faithful being persecuted, because she is afraid of her magic, and is losing faith herself. With the encouragement of her elderly priestess friend, Nyara, and the long pressures of her past, she reaches a breaking point.
“I want our pain to be worth something… I want to stand tall.”
That night, they take out the guards, free the Faithful caged within, and destroy the clock tower that tormented her with its noise all along. She’s taken the leap of faith, and though we don’t know where it will take her, there is a promise that her power will prove to be a blessing in the end, when she joins forces with the other protagonists to set their world to rights.
I love this series so much! Faye's worldbuilding is so effortlessly conveyed without info dumping and it's such a vivid and viscerally real world. Every word feels intentionally crafted to create emotion. You relate to all the POV characters within a page of introduction and their arcs are set up to tell SUCH a powerful story - and this is only the beginning. Looking forward to book 4!
As Ailith watches the suffering in the city, she keeps her head down. In the shadow of the clock-tower, she hides when she could help the Faithful being persecuted, because she is afraid of her magic, and is losing faith herself. With the encouragement of her elderly priestess friend, Nyara, and the long pressures of her past, she reaches a breaking point.
“I want our pain to be worth something… I want to stand tall.”
That night, they take out the guards, free the Faithful caged within, and destroy the clock tower that tormented her with its noise all along. She’s taken the leap of faith, and though we don’t know where it will take her, there is a promise that her power will prove to be a blessing in the end, when she joins forces with the other protagonists to set their world to rights.
I love this series so much! Faye's worldbuilding is so effortlessly conveyed without info dumping and it's such a vivid and viscerally real world. Every word feels intentionally crafted to create emotion. You relate to all the POV characters within a page of introduction and their arcs are set up to tell SUCH a powerful story - and this is only the beginning. Looking forward to book 4!