A young woman with psychic powers is thrust into a world where her sole companion is a cold assassin. Surrounded by enemies, she struggles to survive. But the power she carries has a price: her greatest trial will be defending herself from possession by her own inner demon. More
Welcome to Azaria, a land of forgotten myths and mysterious ruins.
Here are creatures in human shells who can kill with a thought; they call themselves Others. They crave power and view mankind as chattel.
Here is a secret order of knights who ensure the Others remain little more than a legend: assassins with the discipline to move faster than their enemies can think. They dedicate their brief lives to tracking and killing these monsters.
Sienna was born with an Other in her head. When her home is destroyed by an evil spell, she vows to use the monster within her against its kin, but maintaining control of it is no easy task.
Her only companion, cold assassin, leads her through mutants, madmen, battles, cruel landscapes, and horrors beyond imagining.
With enemies on all sides, she struggles to survive. Yet her greatest trial will be defending herself from possession by her own inner demon.
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Sarah Silvey has a Bachelor's degree in Creative Writing. A well-laid plot is the lightning to her pacemaker. The Turning, a dark fantasy, is her first novel. She is currently maintaining a blog at https://freshhell.me/.
The author undertakes challenging complexity when world-building and this aspect felt incomplete to me and made for a slow start … but a quarter of the way through, I was snagged and couldn’t put it down. I was left craving knowledge of the geography and of origins of key elements of the story, making it ripe for a sequel. The book is rich in themes like political polarization and how characters turn and face their inner demons and find the will to live -- or die. This is not a perfect book but it is an excellent beginning fantasy novel where both the author and the continued story show promise.
holy cats! this book is awesome. i read it straight through because it was so captivating. i LOVED it. i am not a big fan of fantasy & am a really picky reader. i often do not finish a book because it is just lacking in heart. this one has so much heart! & i hate reading off of a screen & avoid it--but this book wouldn't let me go. i would love to see this book in print because it really deserves its space in a library (public or private.)
Very well written. Each characters is a unique individual, who grew into a real person in the cinema of my mind.
A few times I anticipated the upcoming scenes correctly but most times I did not. An original a well thought out work. I will be looking for more works by the author.