Paperback, 295 pages
English language
Published Feb. 13, 2015 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
Some say that in the city of Orlyn, godhood is on sale to the highest bidder. Thousands flock to the city each year, hoping for a chance at immortality.
Lydia Hastings is a knowledge sorcerer, capable of extracting information from anything she touches. When she travels to Orlyn to validate the claims of the local faith, she discovers a conspiracy that could lead to a war between the world's three greatest powers. At the focal point is a prisoner who bears a striking resemblance to the long-missing leader of the pantheon she worships.
Rescuing the prisoner would require risking her carefully cultivated cover - but his execution could mean the end of everything Lydia holds dear.
This book takes literally the most stereotypical sword and sorcery plot devices, and makes them into an interesting, non-stereotypical story.
While I didn't like it as well as the arcane Ascension series, it is still quite good.
Rather entertaining. Some things annoyed me, like the changing POV chapters and the info dumps. My god, the info dumps. The first half is more or less just a long dump of information with some story in between. But in the end the story was entertaining and kept moving on at such a quick pace that I just had to keep on reading. Definitely worth the dollar I paid for the book.
