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4.5 stars

Most battles are won by those who understand their enemy. I’ve always found one only has to look to the arts. Sculptures, books, paintings. They reveal the true identity of a culture. If you understand that, then you know your enemy. You can find their weakness and attack.

Rema was taken by Captain at the end of the second book. Darmik and several others are traveling to Emperion to save her. Darmik is the only one who has ever been to Emperion and his experience was nothing short of a nightmare. We start to get some flashbacks to his training. The Emperion army is ruthless and has a one-mind strategy, WAR.

We also get flashbacks of Darmik growing up and his father treating him horribly. We also got a look into the brothers and how Darmik became the best to prove to his dad he was worthy but Lennek being a whiny brat would say Darmik cheated just to have him whipped by his father.

Let me tell you that this book surprised me in many ways. By the way, I love Rema in this book. She was finally the person who I thought she could be though on the boat she acted weird. The other two books seemed to drag a bit. This one though I felt went by super fast. I love how fast-paced it was, and the character growth. I am shocked at how much I loved this book considering the nightmares the first book gave me.

There is a spin-off series that follows twenty years after this book. I have had it on my TBR before this book without knowing it was a spin-off. I’m not going to jump into it right away. I need to read something fuzzy and warm.