Book Review: Sands of Reckoning (Sands of Eppla - Book 3)
Sands of Reckoning (Sands of Eppla - Book 3) by Janeal Falor
4 stars
Category: New Adult
Note: I obtained a free ARC from the author.
Summary: Blind Cassandra finds out that the High Priest has been planning to remove love completely from the country of Eppla by poisoning the water and has to devise a way to stop him with the help of former elite warrior Nikon and her friends, while being hunted by the high priest’s minions, without the ability to fall in love at first sight herself because of being blind.
Comments: What shines in this series are the foreign location (we’re talking a series of cities spread apart by a lengthy desert, with the flavor of ancient Egypt with the pyramids and even a Sphynx lurking around), and how utterly in the dark Cassandra is, with us having to just fill in the blanks since she isn’t able to describe really anything around her. She has a multitude of friends, which I had trouble keeping apart after a while, since she kept adding to the group. Tewy, her monkey, is a definite bright spot in the book, always showing who he prefers (Nikon), and pulling Cassandra’s hair and getting her into trouble, and helping at times. With this being the last book in the series, it did tie things together nicely in the end, finally revealing motives of characters and hidden relations of characters, though it did feel like certain threads got dropped (like being a part of the rebels, and even the magic of the sand, even the sphynx felt like an afterthought with an explanation on it that didn’t make a whole lot of sense). Cassandra herself did wear on me a bit more this time around since she felt like she was fussing over every single detail down to the smallest minutiae and it felt like her blindness had been a bit glossed over and forgotten since she didn’t seem to be feeling her way around in the darkness and discovering her surroundings as much, but more of waiting around for other people, letting others guide her, and worrying while she waited in the darkness, but the draw for me was definitely the relationship between her and Nikon which was in a bit of jeopardy at the end of the last book with him finding his fated partner.
4 stars
Category: New Adult
Note: I obtained a free ARC from the author.
Summary: Blind Cassandra finds out that the High Priest has been planning to remove love completely from the country of Eppla by poisoning the water and has to devise a way to stop him with the help of former elite warrior Nikon and her friends, while being hunted by the high priest’s minions, without the ability to fall in love at first sight herself because of being blind.
Comments: What shines in this series are the foreign location (we’re talking a series of cities spread apart by a lengthy desert, with the flavor of ancient Egypt with the pyramids and even a Sphynx lurking around), and how utterly in the dark Cassandra is, with us having to just fill in the blanks since she isn’t able to describe really anything around her. She has a multitude of friends, which I had trouble keeping apart after a while, since she kept adding to the group. Tewy, her monkey, is a definite bright spot in the book, always showing who he prefers (Nikon), and pulling Cassandra’s hair and getting her into trouble, and helping at times. With this being the last book in the series, it did tie things together nicely in the end, finally revealing motives of characters and hidden relations of characters, though it did feel like certain threads got dropped (like being a part of the rebels, and even the magic of the sand, even the sphynx felt like an afterthought with an explanation on it that didn’t make a whole lot of sense). Cassandra herself did wear on me a bit more this time around since she felt like she was fussing over every single detail down to the smallest minutiae and it felt like her blindness had been a bit glossed over and forgotten since she didn’t seem to be feeling her way around in the darkness and discovering her surroundings as much, but more of waiting around for other people, letting others guide her, and worrying while she waited in the darkness, but the draw for me was definitely the relationship between her and Nikon which was in a bit of jeopardy at the end of the last book with him finding his fated partner.