Not as satisfying as I had hoped for.
I had a love/hate relationship with this book. It seemed to me that it couldn’t decide what it wanted to be...love story, fantasy, historical war adventure, with a little teleportation/time-traveling thrown in for good measure.
This is the story of Keelin, a young woman who embraces her destiny to become a priestess gifted with healing, mind manipulation and teleportation/time travel. As the daughter of an Eire (ancient Ireland) chieftain, she uses her abilities to aid her people as they are threatened by war.
My issues here were threefold: the war (which had a huge buildup) occurred 25 pages from the ending; there were some skips/jumps in the narrative (not pertaining to time travel) that were a bit annoying; and the ending left a cliffhanger of sorts...and I haven’t seen any indication of this being a series.
To sum it up, the writing was fine, the characters likeable enough but not sure what I just read...I feel like I’ve been reading in limbo.
Thanks to #BookishFirst and #SeanachiePress for providing the ARC for review. The opinions are strictly my own.
This is the story of Keelin, a young woman who embraces her destiny to become a priestess gifted with healing, mind manipulation and teleportation/time travel. As the daughter of an Eire (ancient Ireland) chieftain, she uses her abilities to aid her people as they are threatened by war.
My issues here were threefold: the war (which had a huge buildup) occurred 25 pages from the ending; there were some skips/jumps in the narrative (not pertaining to time travel) that were a bit annoying; and the ending left a cliffhanger of sorts...and I haven’t seen any indication of this being a series.
To sum it up, the writing was fine, the characters likeable enough but not sure what I just read...I feel like I’ve been reading in limbo.
Thanks to #BookishFirst and #SeanachiePress for providing the ARC for review. The opinions are strictly my own.