Shale is a water sensitive in the middle of the desert, where magic is considered dangerous, and does his best just to survive. But she doesn’t want that life, and makes plans to escape. Terelle is a young girl, sold into slavery in a brothel, and when she’s old enough she’ll begin earning her water tokens like the other girls. Only instead of the usual dozen stormlords to bring water, there’s one, and he’s dying. Inhabited by four different cultures, they rely on stormlords–men and women who can manipulate water–to bring the needed water to the cisterns they use for drinking, bathing, and irrigation. The Quartern is a land where water is life. I probably wouldn’t have minded STORMLORD if I haven’t already read it, like, one thousand times before in its various incarnations. A girl on the verge of womanhood, trapped in a life not of her choosing. There’s the standard young boy being trained whose abilities will change the world. THE LAST STORMLORD by Glenda Larke ( Amazon), reminds me of the epic fantasies of 20-odd years ago because the pacing is similar in its devotion to world-building without a visible purpose. Ahem.Īlas, not all epic fantasy writers have gotten the hint. You could say I’m a girl who likes her some action. After the likes of epic fantasy writers Erikson, Sanderson, and Butcher (and others), I’ve gotten used to the current trend of jumping right into the middle of the story.
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