Truthwitch Review
Windwitch Review
Safiya, Iseult, Merik, and Evrane are nearly to Lejna when the Jana indicates via drum that the Marstoks are following. Safiya, Iseult, and Evrane hurry ahead, trying to reach Lejna to complete the contract while Merik flies to the Jana to try to distract the Marstok fleet. There he finds out that Aeduan has managed to follow them and has nearly caught up to the girls. Kullen magics up a massive storm to delay the Marstoks which quickly gets out of control.
The girls realize Aedon is following and Evrane stays back to intercept Aeduan, where we learn that she trained him in the Carawen monastery. Safiya and Iseult reach Lejna but the Marstoks are already there. Safiya must reach a specific unlabelled pier to fulfill the terms of the contract. Safiya and Iseult switch clothes to draw the Marstoks away from the piers. After Iseult leads the Marstoks away, many of them start cleaving. The puppeteer has chosen to cleave them and Iseult feels that this is her own fault. Aeduan catches up to Iseult thinking that she's Safiya. They fight off the cleaving soldiers together and he hides her in a house with a salamander cloak to pay his life-debt to her. Evrane shows up and is attacked by the cleaved. Aeduan gets to her in time though she's dying. He leaves Safiya and Iseult behind to get her to the Origin Well to save her life. When he reaches the now active well, he realizes that Safiya and Iseult actually are the Char Awen. He decides to forsake his vows to protect them and instead join his father who is revealed to be the raider king of Arithuania.
Meanwhile, Safiya meets Vaness, the Empress of Marstok on the piers where they battle. Safiya loses and the Empress takes her captive. They make a deal that Safiya will be her truthwitch in exchange for opening trade between Marstok and Nubrevna.
Throughout the battle, Kullen's storm is getting increasingly worse. Merik finds him and realizes that Kullen is cleaving. Kullen has a moment of clarity, saying goodbye to his thread-brother, and then flies himself away from Lejna. It's implied that Kullen is dead though we don't see a body. Kullen and his storm leaving causes a building to collapse on Merik. Iseult finds him while looking for Evrane and saves him, getting them back to the boat. She leaves before he comes back to consciousness to wait for Safiya's contact in the coffee shop. Upon waking, Merik finds out that Safiya had written to her uncle in the contract asking him to be lenient with the contract. The spilled blood clause has been removed and Merik now has a trade agreement with both the Hasstrels and the Marstoks.
The book ends with the Safiya and Vaness on a ship heading to Azmir. Vaness tells Safiya that then twenty year truce has ended.
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