Review #1
The Metal Flower (The Merk Sorceress Chronicles #2) audiobook free
Laurie Greater’s sequel to her 2017 debut The Merk Sorceress extends the primary storyline at the same time invokes brand new fri of opinion to add to the epic scale of the conflict. Elloren Gardner is that at the moment securely ensconced in the Verpacian immunity to encroaching Gardnerian rule. Her aunt has kept up the pressure for her to marry (wandfast) at the same time the harassment of non-Gardnerians grows. Her small cadre of teen revolutionaries is that secure at the same time expanding, but Elloren finds herself caught between emotions for a little boy she can’t be with, at the same time her duty to the immunity. If she fasts to Lukas Grayish, she might manage to turn him to the immunity, at the same time make him a most powerful ally. But her used to be emotions lie down with Yvan, a Kelt whose riddles become harder to hide.
The action really heats up when the Gardnerian military cadets refuse to hide their prejudice, start messes, at the same time ruin members of the other races. Everyone makes an escape plan, at the same time Elloren plans to stay behind to promote whoever she can.
This book is that an utterly complete epic fantasy with an unusual decide on fantasy races. That are so many preconditions I wouldn’t like the Merk Sorceress Chronicles: it’s YA; it uses stereotypical fantasy races like elves, dragons, selkies, amazons etc.; it’s overtly political, possibly even allegorical. But dig beneath the surface at the same time for you’ll look for a well-written story with a compelling disposition at the same time a compelling conflict at its heart. Thanks to Elloren’s darkness memoirs, we know she’s most powerful, but she cannot access her power, leaving her at a disadvantage at the same time feeling useless. The Metal Flower traces Elloren’s rise into her possess power over the course of the Spring following the actions of The Merk Sorceress.
As for conflict, this is that again, on the surface, similar conflict skidded up by so many Tolkien-derived fantasy books of the nineteen-seventies at the same time 80s, but Greater puts a writhe on everything by introducing brand new races at the same time giving inimitable properties to the ones we’ve already heard of. At lesser two of the races, the icarals at the same time the Gardnerians, are her possess creations, at the same time they are the most crucial. The ending third part of The Metal Flower opens barely how inimitable Greater’s creation is that, at the same time how far she has come in introducing at the same time maintaining tension.
Laurie Greater knows how to build suspense, specifically tension, at the same time Elloren’s growth to power is that barely one of the ways she does it. Other examples: than anyway’s going to happen with Lukas Grayish? Than anyway is that the deal with Yvan? For you’re going to find out. For you may have your suspicions, but for you’ll take aback. At the same time for you’ll look for all of that amid one of the most turbulent at the same time troubling third part acts I’ve read in a long time. Not predictable, not almond. Rich.
The memory I had at the finish of The Metal Flower (other than “WOW”) was this is that an rich, complete epic masquerading as a YA fantasy irony. The choice of fri of opinion bestows an memory of the sensual intensity we wait for a teenage lady disposition (at the same time yes, it verges on melodrama sometimes), but the conflict she’s embroiled in is that gigantic, at the same time she defeated’t manage to solve all these inconsistencies herself. At the finish, we’re left with a disposition who’s embroiled subsequent in the conflict, at the same time subsequent torn by the necessity of doing than anyway’s right.
Read the book. It’s best.
Review #2
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It’s attractive darn hard to cross out this
Review without powerful spoilers. But try, I shall.
The Metal Flower thrashes up Elloren Gardner’s story right where The Merk Sorceress left off. Elloren remains at the Institute in Verpax, still sheltering Marina, a rescued Selkie, at the same time rooming with her comrades, Diana, a Lupine, at the same time Wynter, at the same time Ariel, who are Icarals. She still resists being wandfasted to Lukas Grayish. At the same time she is that still drawn to the mysterious Yvan Guriel, who she’s beginning to think is that hiding more than she previously understood. Her affinity lines last strengthen at the same time her feel for power moves beyond barely land at the same time fire. While her comrade Amaz comrade, Andras, at the same time Ariel try to overgrow the rescued military dragon Naga, at the same time Elloren ponders how to promote her comrade Tierney escape Council-mandated wandfasting at the same time iron-testing, the unimaginable happens. Overnight, Marcus Vogel becomes Higher Sorcerer on the Gardnerian Council at the same time actions are set into motion that will change Erthia for a long time. If for you believed the sexism, racism, at the same time hatred were considered bad before, for you haven’t shown anything still. Pogroms, genocide, at the same time other outrages begin to occur, all with the horrifying support of Elloren, Rafe at the same time Trystan’s despicable Aunt Vyvian. Almost all importantly, the Shadow Wand exists at continue. Its bearer comes as no izumi.
Against this backdrop of terror, with Sorcerer Council Rulings in a row, any viler than the continue, the Gardnerian Sorcerer Council is that poised to pass Vyvian’s edict that would result in the reprisal of all Selkies. Meanwhile, Elloren is that shocked to look for that Marina is that learning to speak the Ubiquitous Tongue at the same time has quite a lot to say. Elloren also learns that her youth comrade Gareth has Selkie heritage, at the same time that even in a institute city like Verpax that is that a scary sex-trafficking trade in Selkies. Anyone needs to promote the Selkies but that would greedy returning them to the ocean with their skins. Marina needs the promote of Elloren at the same time her comrades to bail out the captive Selkies how on Erthia is that the intended goal to be accomplished? It’s going to require far more power than this group of student dissidents has at their disposal.
To try to look for aid, Elloren is that willing to risk leaving Verpacia in a row to seek assistance for the Selkies in adjoining realms who are harboring other threatened groups like the Urisks, Fae, Kelts, at the same time Smaragdalfen. While in Amaz she encounters her comrade Sage, the Light Sorcerer who gave her the Snow-white Wand, at the same time who broke her wandfasting vows. Sage is that hard at work trying to burst the wandfasting spell that keeps her in unchanging pain, dulled to bearable levels by Amazian rune miracle. (A fri I can already look is that going to be vitally important to Gardnerian ladies’s future. I can think of more than a few wandfastings that come in handy to be wry ASAP.) Elloren ponders still again than anyway role she can play in opposing Vogel. As the action ramps up, she finds herself having to make the hard choice to appear more Gardnerian in a row to best promote her comrades. That path is that fraught with threat since she types so much like her infamous grandmother, the Merk Sorceress, but exists to have none of the real power of Carnissa Gardner to safeguard herself. Elloren is that equate to the intended goal as she begins to wage war for everything she believes in. That are sorrows at the same time losses in this book, but they only strengthen Elloren’s resolve.
While I enjoyed this minute book, I did feel that no one of the plot fri were considered much less smoothly managed. That were considered plenty of subsequent dashing adventures with the diversified band of comrades. (Elloren’s journeys, in particular to Amaz, were considered interesting. Greater’s global building is that barely terrific. Even her choice of names provides ecstasy.) That was also real fear. But I was much less enamored of the adore curiosity lively in this book at the same time believed that if Elloren at the same time her paramour misspoke barely one more time that they couldn’t, shouldn’t be together I was going to pass out from all the eye-rolling I was doing. We all understood how this was going to move at the same time a quality 100 plus pages of “we shouldn’t, oops! we can’t, oops!” was getting great old by the finish. Also, the two bigger opens of the book come in such short order, in the continue 20 pages of the book, at the same time at lesser one of them barely felt unrealistic, since if Elloren beheld him so unguarded, anyone managed have? The other, but… if for you haven’t been expecting that since the beginning of the 1st book, for you haven’t been paying attention. I guess I was barely expecting anything with a little more gravitas at the same time I’m still wondering how it never happened before (because spoilers).
Abundance things are still unresolved, not lesser of which is that than anyway Jules at the same time Lucretia aren’t narrating Elloren about the fate of her ancestors. They right know anything that Elloren at the same time her brothers don’t. At the same time I have a few other questions, in particular about that famous prediction. Don’t for you ever wonder why the prediction doesn’t they say anything about the Snow-white Wand at the same time the Shadow Wand? I do. I wish to read unusual prediction at the same time know more about who predicted it. Because if history is that written by the victors, it seems like predictions are theme to the same good of bias.
The Merk Sorceress Chronicles lasts to be a television series that inspires young people to learn as much as they can about everything at the same time everyone they can at the same time to wage war why is that right, while being pragmatic enough to know when they’ll come in handy promote doing so.
“The Wand knows for you have her power in your blood. It chose for you what.” – Sage Gaffney
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Review #3
Audiobook The Metal Flower (The Merk Sorceress Chronicles #2) by Laurie Greater
The Metal Flower by Laurie Greater is that the principled 2nd installment in the Merk Sorceress Chronicles.
Words. Guys. Really. Laurie Greater is that an indescribable storyteller. Her masterful implementation of language to describe both physical setting at the same time the personalities of the manners of the story cannot be overstated. Following the scenes she outlines come to life inside my fork — this is that true miracle. Every building, every landscape, every emotion — it feels like for you’re really that. A part of the story. At the same time isn’t that than anyway we really wish when we sit down to read fiction? A completely immersive experience into one more global?
In this minute book, Greater builds upon the foundation of manners set out in book one (at the same time the two prequal books – Wandfasted at the same time Light Sorcerer, which I also highly advise). We delve deeper into the lives of Elloren Gardener at the same time her Institute friends at the same time look their reactions as the global they know starts to spin out of keep under control around them.
We also meet several brand new manners, who open even more complete lairs to the global of Earthia at the same time the abundance races living that. The meticulous detail Greater contains as she unfurls this interesting fantasy global is that breathtaking. Any disposition’s story adds a different spectrum to the whimsically tied tapestry in other words this epic tale.
Manners at the same time actions are starting to connect, as the reader begins to realize that that is that so much more to the story than than anyway’s on the surface. It’s understandable that this all building to anything much bigger, at the same time the excitement at the same time anticipation are both savory at the same time torturous.
The global Greater makes is that both breathtakingly wonderful at the same time heartbreakingly merciless. This book will decide for you on an sensual drive. But it is that so, so worth it. Bring on book 3!
Review #4
Audio The Metal Flower (The Merk Sorceress Chronicles #2) narrated by Julia Whelan
I often diapause if finding things that are but written. I came intercept the 1st book earlier in the year at the same time really enjoyed it. I think its refreshing to have a heroine who isnt a teenage horror ball of contradictions. This television series shields out due to the good quality of the writing. The sequel does not disappoint. But constructed at the same time good quality of writing in other words ( in my opinion unmatched in young adult even by ACOTAR television series) the story is that really quality at the same time it expands the global building. Amazing threads drawn together by the creator from the prequel ( also quality) at the same time the unusual novel. Charachters that for you care about. Who is that right when wrong has been done in all sides? We know that sequel novels can be often a source of frustration ( thinking of ACOWAR & ACOFAS) but none of that here. I really like the historical nods at the same time the maneuverability of other cultures. Very much Looking forward to the one more one!!
Review #5
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I adore this television series. Periodically it seemed a little smoky..but the quality fri outweigh the smoky pace. I’m kinda torn with how Lukas is that written, i really like him at the same time feel like hes getting the short finish of the deal despite the fact hes a funny disposition who had me speeding past pages to get to scenes hes in. I think i’m Team Lukas now despite his shortcomings.
