One timeline was written in third person and the other in first person, because both were stories being told by two characters taking turns. I liked the way that they seemed to parallel in places, and how they contrasted. And I didn’t ever feel like information was being withheld from me for the sake of it. The use of implications and our own assumptions to keep the reader guessing? Brilliant. I also really respect how cleverly this was written, and what an amazing job Jenn Lyons did on managing not to spoil anything in the past timeline, even when events were mentioned in the future timeline. There was something strangely satisfying about seeing before and after an event, and slowly putting the pieces together on what was happening based on past-and-future clues. I think the split timeline will definitely be a love it or hate it thing but I really enjoyed it. Then again, maybe he’s not the hero, for Kihrin is not destined to save the empire.
He also discovers that the storybooks have lied about a lot of other things too: dragons, demons, gods, prophecies, true love, and how the hero always wins. When he is claimed against his will as the long-lost son of a treasonous prince, Kihrin finds that being a long-lost prince isn’t what the storybooks promised.įar from living the dream, Kihrin finds himself practically a prisoner, at the mercy of his new family’s power plays and ambitions. Kihrin is a bastard orphan who grew up on storybook tales of long-lost princes and grand quests.
Trigger Warnings: gore, slavery (sex slavery, child slavery), torture, murder, mentions of pedophilia, homophobia, misogyny, slut-shaming, explicit talk of rape, sexual assault, suicide (as ritual, due to topics of reincarnation), incest, prostitution, physical and verbal abuse. I had no idea what I was getting into, and honestly? It was a wild ride and nothing like I expected.
I received a finished copy of The Memory of Souls for review, and I’m a complete sucker for epic fantasy (especially with a dragon on the cover, I’m only SO strong), and so I’m marathon reading the entire series (at 600 pages each, too. Sometimes the things that protect us are the same things that limit our freedoms.
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