Tracy Deonn’s newest instalment in ‘The Legendborn Cycle’ is intense and fun.
Bree Matthews has deserted the Order of the Round Table, and allied with the Demon King Erebus and his two cambion familiars Zoe and Elijah. She hopes to master her Rootcraft magic and become truly unstoppable, but there’s a catch. Erebus has wiped her memories, and made her forget her Legendborn allies, her friends, her ancestors, her boyfriend, Nick, even her own past as the descendent of Arthur Pendragon. Bree starts working with Zoe on the magical black market while secretly trying to undermine Erebus, who they suspect is draining power from innocent Roofcrafting girls. But Bree gets trapped in a shady auction event and people from her past start cropping up. Thing gets messy very quickly.
Deonn’s writing is excellent. As always, the plot is dense and full of complicated lore and magic systems. Deonn goes all out with the love triangle between Nick, Bree and their demonic partner Selwyn.
For the first time in the series, we get to see the world through people other than Bree. I was overjoyed to read chapters from the perspective of William, the Scion of Gawain, and one of my absolute favourite characters.
Deonn leaves the story on another cliffhanger and doesn’t tie up all the ends from the previous two books, but the agonising tension from Bree, Sel and Nick’s interactions are so good that I didn’t mind.
This series keeps getting better and better.
Reviewed by Rachel Denham-White
Age Guide 14+
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tracy Deonn is the #1 New York Times bestselling and Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe award-winning author of the ‘Legendborn Cycle’. The Cycle includes the internationally bestselling titles, Legendborn and Bloodmarked, the third title, Oathbound, and a fourth novel to follow. Legendborn has been translated into over a dozen languages and counting.
Tracy’s writing has appeared in several anthologies, on Tor.com, and in the 40th Anniversary The Empire Strikes Back collection, From a Certain Point of View. In addition to being a featured expert in the 2019 Star Wars fandom SyFy Channel docu-series Looking for Leia, Tracy was also a co-writer and consulting producer.
After earning her master’s degree in communication and performance studies from UNC, Tracy worked in live theatre, video game production, and K–12 education. As an instructor, Tracy taught theatre to middle and undergraduate students, and creative and academic writing at the university level. When she’s not writing, Tracy reads comics and fanfic, dreams up new magic systems, and keeps an eye out for ginger-flavoured everything.
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