Name: A Sorcerer's Treason
ISBN: 9780765343741

Sarah Zettel

Leaving her home on Lake Superior, Bridget Lederle is transported to the fantastical world of Isavalta, where she becomes an unwitting player in a lethal game of magic and politics as she discoves that she possesses her own unusual powers, which she must release in order to find salvation. Reprint.

A Sorcerer's Treason

Mary Baldwin

I almost reevaluated my one star rating planned for this book after seeing the most recent reviews giving it 4 or 5. Im aware that there's a chance I have just read SO much fantasy and have such firm favourites that I'm likely to be overly critical.. But then I didn't feel that way when I gave Percheron 5 stars last month.

So one star it is.

I think the books introduction is too long, too much time is spent getting Bridget to the place where he story will begin. Not only that but the intro is where you should begin to fall in love with the lead character(s) and that just never happened.

I didn't appreciate the various settings either.. Shoreside Wisconsin esque countryside to a land feeling almost gothic and a little Persian. Very confusing. 

What I did like, no, love, was the authors creativity in how magic is weaved (literally) in to the plot. This felt original and gave the book a uniqueness that almost warrants a second star. It's so easy to go for wand waving, or 'the gift' or something recycled when conveying magical ability, but this originality was appreciated.

Too much going on.. Animal spirits, character history, character future, demons and bad blood.

I won't be reading book two.

A Sorcerer's Treason

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