4.5 stars
I was hoping this series would be as captivating as the
Rylee series. The story starts out in a
dream. I wasn’t completely captivated by
the dream, but I get why it needed to be there.
From this dream we can understand the entire backstory of the main
character. After this point I was
hooked. I hate books or movies where the
main character is repeatedly dumped on, but it wasn’t overbearing in this
book. Perhaps because Larkspur (main
character) handles it so well.
Larkspur is an illegitimate child of the king. Larkspur is an earth elemental, but has no
abilities to speak of with the earth.
She is judged and degraded because of this. She doesn’t live with the other kings
children and has a very tenuous relationship with the queen (obviously not her
mother). Lark has no other family and
few friends. She does have a boyfriend
who luckily is not present often as he is overbearing and unlikeable (probably
on purpose).
The real story begins when Lark goes to her father during
her “regularly scheduled time” to sit beside him as he hears complaints from
his subjects. There is a farmer who is
having trouble with his trees. There is
a sickness that is spreading. Lark feels
for the farmer as planting is her only skill.
She ends up dismissed for the night from her father, but summoned by the
queen to her chambers. This sets off the
entire series of events as this night Lark is accused of attacking the
queen. Her only options after this are
banishment or training to become an Ender (the King’s guard…or as Lark soon
learns…the queen’s guard).
Banishment is out of the question and Lark actually looks
forward to being an Ender. She would
finally have a place in her father’s kingdom.
Obviously the training is gruesome and even more so for Lark without her
natural powers with the Earth. Her
training actually goes well, but things in the rest of the kingdom are
not. The disease with the trees is
spreading to the elementals and soon Lark finds herself as one of the only ones
who can help the people.
Wonderful story. I
loved every second of it. Can’t wait for
the second one.
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