The Search for Kä

This book comes as a relief after the previous one: it makes relatively pleasant reading, and also moves with reasonable pace and includes a number of significant plot events.

Rikardon and Tarani still struggle with moments of disagreement and lack of trust, but the problems between them are not as bad now.

I still don't find here the compelling scenes that motivate me to reread a book. I've read it this time only because I last read it so long ago that I'd forgotten the story. So I think this is a straight two-star novel: “It was OK.”

Heydron (who actually wrote these books, planned by her and Garrett) is capable of writing fiction competently, but seems to lack the knack of writing compelling scenes.

Incidentally, the letter ä is normally pronounced rather like the letter e, so Kä should sound similar to qué in Spanish, which means ‘what?'. The title of this book could thus be understood as “The search for What?”