When a young shoemaker is summoned to sing for a panicking phoenix afraid of its fiery rebirth, she is swept up in a thousand-year-old struggle for survival between immortal spirits.
Endowed with the phoenix's powers of air and fire, as well as the creature's beautiful golden skin and ruby feathers, Daphne explores the city of Trevell to unravel the mystery of the Silver Ash in a race against time to save a dying tree from an ancient beast and to stop an invading army from destroying her home before the phoenix's fire consumes her mortal heart.
Endowed with the phoenix's powers of air and fire, as well as the creature's beautiful golden skin and ruby feathers, Daphne explores the city of Trevell to unravel the mystery of the Silver Ash in a race against time to save a dying tree from an ancient beast and to stop an invading army from destroying her home before the phoenix's fire consumes her mortal heart.
My Review:
Wow. Yup that pretty much sums up how I feel about this
one. Of course I’ve thoroughly enjoyed
all of the author’s previous works so it wasn’t that surprising that I enjoyed
this one too. But still there’s always a chance that this might be that one
book that doesn’t work for some reason right?
The city of Trevell renews itself every hundred years or so
with the rebirth of the Phoenix and the Silver Ash. This time however something has gone wrong
and it is up to Daphne to help fix it.
I loved this story! It’s an extraordinary adventure all inside of
one city. Daphne is sweet and innocent in her own way,
but she is also smart and determined. I
enjoyed being introduced to her world through her eyes. How throughout her
adventures she sees new parts of the city, and even old parts, with new eyes as
she tries to save her daughter, herself, her city, and the rest of the people
she cares about. I really got a feel for
what Trevell was and what it was supposed to be.
I really enjoyed the way the story moved as well. While the
descriptions were detailed, the story itself moved swiftly and took me along
with it. Whether it was fight scenes or
dialogue I found myself eagerly turning to the next page to see what would
happen next.
The story ended quite
differently than I thought it would. I won’t go into detail but I hope that
there will be more stories about Trevell and its surrounding world. I also hope there will be more stories about
Daphne.
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This post is part of the Blogging From A to Z April Challenge 2013.
Sounds like an intriguing book. I shall have to look it up.
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DeleteJust a heads up Daphne and the Silver Ash is currently on sale for only 0.99 cents, just follow the link above to it's place on Amazon.
So many books to read and not time to do it seems to be my mantra now. I used to read about 4-6 novels a week (including ones for my teaching purposes. Since becoming an almost full time author, I'm barely managing a couple! Good to know people like you are enjoying all the millions of books out there.
ReplyDeleteMy problem is that I have so many and I feel guilty 'cause I haven't gotten around to reading them. That's why I made this year's challenge's theme reviewing a book a day a-z. At least that way I would read 26 of them that have been just floating on my reader. Course now I wish I had read them sooner!
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Checking out the site for the A to Z Challenge. This cover caught my attention because of her smirk. Makes me wonder what's behind it. Great cover, and it sounds like a great read.
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I love the cover too and thanks for featuring my post!
DeleteThis sounds like a cool book, and I like the look of the cover. Hope you had a great week of A to Z challenge!
ReplyDeleteLook forward to the rest of your challenge posts!
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