Empire's Heir
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For thirteen years, Sorley has taught music and swordplay at the Ti'ach na Cillian, his terrible memories behind him. A peaceful life, hard-won after the devastation of war and betrayal - until officer-cadet Gwenna comes home for the summer with a question. "Why are there so many secrets in this family?" Following the story begun in Empire's Legacy, Empire's Reckoning asks if love - for country, for another person, for family - is enough to transcend the expectations of history and culture, and to find uncharted paths to peace.
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3 primary booksEmpire's Legacy is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2015 with contributions by Marian L. Thorpe.
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Empire's Heir is book 6 in the Empire's Legacy series. It's said it can be read standalone and the author provides a link to a summary of the previous installments. I have not read this series before and was a tad leery about it being book 6, but the standalone statement had me curious as I do enjoy this time period. However, I don't believe this is good as a standalone and shouldn't be read by itself.
This is a very slow, very detailed segment and I was constantly lost as to what was happening. It wasn't that the writing is bad or anything like that. While reading, I could tell there was a lot of backstory that went along with the grief, the relationships and the current situation that I didn't have. It definitely made for a struggle to finish.
That being said, after reading this I am curious as to what came before and of the events that brought the cast of characters (of which there are many) to the point they are at. I enjoyed this author's writing and may have to go back and start from the beginning. This would have been much more enjoyable had I read the prior books in the series.
I sincerely appreciate the publisher and Blackthorn and Black Coffee Book Tours for providing me with a review copy. All opinions expressed herein are mine and mine alone.
