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A review by zanybibliophile
Reigntime: Book One in the Reigntime Series by S. K. Levy
5.0
Reigntime caught my eye for a few reasons:
1. the cover is stunning!
2. it is by an Australian author
3. it is set in Australia
I had high hopes for this book and was not disappointed.
Lexie is a young nursing student on placement who gets stuck with a sucky supervisor and a mysterious patient. That mysterious patient is Myall, a Reigntime creature. Both of these characters were well written and formed.
The plot was interesting, more so towards the end of the book, and the backstories fit in well with the "current" events. I do not often like the sob stories, but this was more a 'something bad happened and it hurts' rather than a 'something bad happened and now I cannot live my life' so I was okay with that.
The language Levy put together for this book was also interesting, though at times it did confuse me a little. Thank goodness for the glossary in the back of the book.
It is clear a lot of time and effort went into the creation of Reigntime and, for me, it paid off. I cannot wait for Slarlit (book 2) and hope to see both Lexie and Myall figure out a brilliant way to deal with what happened at the end of Reigntime... Read the book to find out what I am talking about here.
My little hiccups with Reigntime are due to personal preferences and not the quality of the book, which was amazing, so it definitely deserves 5 stars!
1. the cover is stunning!
2. it is by an Australian author
3. it is set in Australia
I had high hopes for this book and was not disappointed.
Lexie is a young nursing student on placement who gets stuck with a sucky supervisor and a mysterious patient. That mysterious patient is Myall, a Reigntime creature. Both of these characters were well written and formed.
The plot was interesting, more so towards the end of the book, and the backstories fit in well with the "current" events. I do not often like the sob stories, but this was more a 'something bad happened and it hurts' rather than a 'something bad happened and now I cannot live my life' so I was okay with that.
The language Levy put together for this book was also interesting, though at times it did confuse me a little. Thank goodness for the glossary in the back of the book.
It is clear a lot of time and effort went into the creation of Reigntime and, for me, it paid off. I cannot wait for Slarlit (book 2) and hope to see both Lexie and Myall figure out a brilliant way to deal with what happened at the end of Reigntime... Read the book to find out what I am talking about here.
My little hiccups with Reigntime are due to personal preferences and not the quality of the book, which was amazing, so it definitely deserves 5 stars!