I jumped into this series in the middle, I haven’t yet had a
chance to read the rest but I have every intention to do so. This was different
than anything else I have read recently. I liked the conflict created by Alara’s
biological need to regenerate. I also liked that Alara wasn’t clingy or needy.
Yes, she was being driven by her body’s needs, but she had enough presence of
mind not to try and force the relationship even when she could have done so.
The accepted philosophy that having different people/species
involved because they helped see the situation from different perspectives is
one that our world would greatly benefit from accepting. Xander was a good leader and once he was able
to understand how to use his astral power he was able to heal his old wounds
regarding his personal “cowardice”
The Perceptive Ones, Clarie’s interventions in particular,
allowed the story to advance in ways that normally (within the scope of the
Universe that had been created in the story) couldn’t happen. A longer trip to find the cure would have had
Xander and Alara interacting quite a bit more, not to mention that Kirek would
most likely have been killed for his snooping. The one thing with using
convenient measures of transporting and time travel is that in the long run I
feel like some of the character’s development gets rushed.
I really enjoyed this read!
Rating 4 out of 5
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