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UMBRAL SERVES THE DEATHSWORN. He exists for one purpose only: to hunt down the last girl with rainbow magic and kill her. Now he has Dindi at his mercy. But he discoverers that the Raptor Riders of Orange Canyon have played with dark magic that threatens all Faeath, and he needs Dindi’s help to stop them.
DINDI BARGINS FOR HER LIFE. She offers to help her captor rescue the White Lady from the Raptor Riders, who plan to use the faery as a pawn in a monstrous scheme. But Dindi will never forget that Umbral murdered someone she loved…and never forgive. She vows to escape and bring him to justice.
A DARKNESS UNCOILS IN ORANGE CANYON. If they can’t work together, the darkness will consume everything.
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WELCOME TO FAEARTH…where humans are trapped between the immortal fae and the minions of Death. But one woman and the warrior who loves her will defy every taboo to protect their people.
This is the fifth book in The Unfinished Song epic fantasy series. Haven’t read the other books yet? Come taste the world of Faearth... The first book is available right now for FREE.
The Unfinished Song (Book 1): Initiate
The Unfinished Song (Book 2): Taboo
The Unfinished Song (Book 3): Sacrifice
The Unfinished Song (Book 4): Root
DINDI BARGINS FOR HER LIFE. She offers to help her captor rescue the White Lady from the Raptor Riders, who plan to use the faery as a pawn in a monstrous scheme. But Dindi will never forget that Umbral murdered someone she loved…and never forgive. She vows to escape and bring him to justice.
A DARKNESS UNCOILS IN ORANGE CANYON. If they can’t work together, the darkness will consume everything.
This book is 97,000 words. DRM is not enabled.
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WELCOME TO FAEARTH…where humans are trapped between the immortal fae and the minions of Death. But one woman and the warrior who loves her will defy every taboo to protect their people.
This is the fifth book in The Unfinished Song epic fantasy series. Haven’t read the other books yet? Come taste the world of Faearth... The first book is available right now for FREE.
The Unfinished Song (Book 1): Initiate
The Unfinished Song (Book 2): Taboo
The Unfinished Song (Book 3): Sacrifice
The Unfinished Song (Book 4): Root
296 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 10, 2012
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Tara Maya
138 books175 followersTara Maya has lived in Africa, Europe and Asia. She's pounded sorghum with mortar and pestle in a little clay village where the jungle meets the desert, meditated in a Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas and sailed the Volga river to a secret city that was once the heart of the Soviet space program. This first-hand experience, as well as research into the strange and piquant histories of lost civilizations, inspires her writing. Her terrible housekeeping, however, is entirely the fault of pixies.
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October 25, 2012
Love this series so far but I also feel like I'm watching the show Lost. Great show, lots of suspense and mystery but not a lot revealed per show and you have to wait a whole week to see more but still be left wondering. Only I have to wait a whole lot longer than a week to find out more. I think that is why I am giving it 4 stars instead of 5. With that said, I would definitely recommend this series to friends and can't wait for the next book. Hopefully it comes out soon.
November 14, 2012
Fifth book in the series.
The young maiden Dindi has just been kidnapped by one of the Deathsworn, Umbral. Umbral is determined to kill her because she has a connection to the high faeries, the Aelfae, and Umbral is convinced that Dindi can help the Aelfae return to the world. The Deathsworn have killed almost all of the Aelfae and want to now finish their job. However, Dindi is a resourceful girl. When Umbral tries to kill her almost immediately, Dindi manages to trigger a vision which delays Umbral and makes him think that Dindi would be useful to him. So, Umbral suggests a bargain: as long as Dindi will see visions, Umbral doesn't kill her.
Unfortunately, Umbral thinks that Dindi's visions are about the current day and about the White Lady, Vessia, who is one of the few remaining Aelfae. While Dindi's visions are about Vessia, they are twenty years in the past. Dindi is trying to be as vague as possible about her visions, so that Umbral doesn't realize it. Also, Umbral has confessed that he has killed Dindi's beloved Kavio. Because Umbral has one of the six objects of power, he looks like Kavio to Dindi. Dindi is looking for a way to avenge her beloved but the way Umbral looks like Kavio is unsettling to her.
Umbral is a devotee of the Black Lady, Death. He has done terrible things in the past but doesn't remember anything from the time before he became a Deathsworn. The Deathsworn, the servant of the dead, separate the dead and the dying, and most of the time they kill people who are too badly wounded or diseased to live. However, Umbral has also attacked, tortured, and killed healthy people which Deathsworn shouldn't do. He leads the Deathsworn group with intimidation, violence, and fear.
However, Umbral is becoming increasingly attracted to Dindi. He kills people either with weapons or by absorbing the magical Chromas, the life force, of his victim. Sometimes when he has absorbed someone, the victim's memories still linger with him. Umbral's immediate goal is to kill the White Lady because he's convinced that the faeries will kill humans if they aren't killed first. He seems relieved when he has an excuse to keep Dindi alive. They must track the White Lady and work together while traveling through wilderness.
Vessia, the White Lady, has been kidnapped by her husband's brother and niece. They loath Vessia and are trying to use her as a leverage against her politically powerful (human) husband. However, even though Vessia has lost her immortality, she's far from helpless.
Finnadro the Wolf Hunter is the Henchman of the Green Lady, Vessia's sister faery. He loves his mistress unreservedly and has even rejected human lovers in favor of her. He's a great hunter and warrior. In the past, Umbral tortured him and left him for dead. Now, he has an excuse to hunt Umbral and maybe save both Dindi and Vessia.
In the previous book Dindi and her traveling group of dancers were staying in a village called Green Woods. The village was attacked by a group of Raptor Riders and the warriors of the Orange Canyon tribe. The fight was brutal and many died on both sides. The Green Woods warriors want revenge and send a group to the Orange Canyon lands. Among the Green Woods warriors are a few of Dindi's friends.
Tamio and Hadi are both young warriors and Dindi's friends. However, while Tamio is expecting the next battle and the glory he will get from killing other warriors, Hadi knows that he's a lousy warrior (and a hunter) and he's dreading the fight, thinking that he will be killed. Also, Hadi wants to protect his sister who was married just before the fight – and widowed during it. One of the shape shifters rescued Hadi during the fight and now Hadi owes a liftdebt to him. However, the shape shifter has his eye on Hadi' sister and takes her as a servant in Hadi's place. Hadi isn't happy about it but can't change it.
Generally, I don't really care for books with multiple POV characters because most of the time it's hard to distinguish the young white male warriors from each other and sometimes they aren't needed to advance the plot. However, in this series all of the POV characters have been so different from each other that I have no problem distinguishing them from each other, even when they travel in the same group. Also, they all have their own problems which don't necessarily directly tie into the main plot. Even Tamio has an interesting, and appropriate, subplot. I could barely stand him in Sacrifice where he was first introduced.
Most of the book is written in third person but each seven chapters start with a short section in first person. They all give great insight to the character because they all describe a significant event in that person's history. For example, Finnadro's first person section is his memory of how he won himself the Shining name of Wolf Hunter and we also get to know a little about his family and tribe. We also get insight into Dindi (in fact she gets insight into her own feelings) but her narration is for the present and not from past.
I'm just wondering a little about the ending. Dindi developed very handy new abilities earlier in the book. Why didn't she use them at the end where they would have been very, very useful? I suspect it's because they are new and she couldn't rely on them but she could have even thought about them or tried to use them.
Each book in the series so far has expanded the world and this book is no exception. We get to know more about the Raptor Riders. They are humans who have enslaved magic users who can change their shape into various raptors. However, the riders have their secrets, too. In Root we found out that some of the Green Woods people are born as shapeshifters, wolves. Most of them are banished into the wilderness and are called wildlings. Finnadro knows them and can even ask them for help. Apparently, it's also his job to make sure that they don't bother the tribesmen. Now, we see that some of the shapeshifters can shift into different forms but they seem to be even more shunned than the wolves. We also get to hear a couple of the old legends which I found fascinating. We also get to see a few scenes from the war between humans and the Aelfae. In Dindi's visions about Vessia we get to see how a human and a fae try to build a life together and it isn't easy. And Dindi and Umbral encounter a new human clan during their travels.
Wing is another great continuation with twists and turns. It's ends with a great cliffhanger!
The young maiden Dindi has just been kidnapped by one of the Deathsworn, Umbral. Umbral is determined to kill her because she has a connection to the high faeries, the Aelfae, and Umbral is convinced that Dindi can help the Aelfae return to the world. The Deathsworn have killed almost all of the Aelfae and want to now finish their job. However, Dindi is a resourceful girl. When Umbral tries to kill her almost immediately, Dindi manages to trigger a vision which delays Umbral and makes him think that Dindi would be useful to him. So, Umbral suggests a bargain: as long as Dindi will see visions, Umbral doesn't kill her.
Unfortunately, Umbral thinks that Dindi's visions are about the current day and about the White Lady, Vessia, who is one of the few remaining Aelfae. While Dindi's visions are about Vessia, they are twenty years in the past. Dindi is trying to be as vague as possible about her visions, so that Umbral doesn't realize it. Also, Umbral has confessed that he has killed Dindi's beloved Kavio. Because Umbral has one of the six objects of power, he looks like Kavio to Dindi. Dindi is looking for a way to avenge her beloved but the way Umbral looks like Kavio is unsettling to her.
Umbral is a devotee of the Black Lady, Death. He has done terrible things in the past but doesn't remember anything from the time before he became a Deathsworn. The Deathsworn, the servant of the dead, separate the dead and the dying, and most of the time they kill people who are too badly wounded or diseased to live. However, Umbral has also attacked, tortured, and killed healthy people which Deathsworn shouldn't do. He leads the Deathsworn group with intimidation, violence, and fear.
However, Umbral is becoming increasingly attracted to Dindi. He kills people either with weapons or by absorbing the magical Chromas, the life force, of his victim. Sometimes when he has absorbed someone, the victim's memories still linger with him. Umbral's immediate goal is to kill the White Lady because he's convinced that the faeries will kill humans if they aren't killed first. He seems relieved when he has an excuse to keep Dindi alive. They must track the White Lady and work together while traveling through wilderness.
Vessia, the White Lady, has been kidnapped by her husband's brother and niece. They loath Vessia and are trying to use her as a leverage against her politically powerful (human) husband. However, even though Vessia has lost her immortality, she's far from helpless.
Finnadro the Wolf Hunter is the Henchman of the Green Lady, Vessia's sister faery. He loves his mistress unreservedly and has even rejected human lovers in favor of her. He's a great hunter and warrior. In the past, Umbral tortured him and left him for dead. Now, he has an excuse to hunt Umbral and maybe save both Dindi and Vessia.
In the previous book Dindi and her traveling group of dancers were staying in a village called Green Woods. The village was attacked by a group of Raptor Riders and the warriors of the Orange Canyon tribe. The fight was brutal and many died on both sides. The Green Woods warriors want revenge and send a group to the Orange Canyon lands. Among the Green Woods warriors are a few of Dindi's friends.
Tamio and Hadi are both young warriors and Dindi's friends. However, while Tamio is expecting the next battle and the glory he will get from killing other warriors, Hadi knows that he's a lousy warrior (and a hunter) and he's dreading the fight, thinking that he will be killed. Also, Hadi wants to protect his sister who was married just before the fight – and widowed during it. One of the shape shifters rescued Hadi during the fight and now Hadi owes a liftdebt to him. However, the shape shifter has his eye on Hadi' sister and takes her as a servant in Hadi's place. Hadi isn't happy about it but can't change it.
Generally, I don't really care for books with multiple POV characters because most of the time it's hard to distinguish the young white male warriors from each other and sometimes they aren't needed to advance the plot. However, in this series all of the POV characters have been so different from each other that I have no problem distinguishing them from each other, even when they travel in the same group. Also, they all have their own problems which don't necessarily directly tie into the main plot. Even Tamio has an interesting, and appropriate, subplot. I could barely stand him in Sacrifice where he was first introduced.
Most of the book is written in third person but each seven chapters start with a short section in first person. They all give great insight to the character because they all describe a significant event in that person's history. For example, Finnadro's first person section is his memory of how he won himself the Shining name of Wolf Hunter and we also get to know a little about his family and tribe. We also get insight into Dindi (in fact she gets insight into her own feelings) but her narration is for the present and not from past.
I'm just wondering a little about the ending. Dindi developed very handy new abilities earlier in the book. Why didn't she use them at the end where they would have been very, very useful? I suspect it's because they are new and she couldn't rely on them but she could have even thought about them or tried to use them.
Each book in the series so far has expanded the world and this book is no exception. We get to know more about the Raptor Riders. They are humans who have enslaved magic users who can change their shape into various raptors. However, the riders have their secrets, too. In Root we found out that some of the Green Woods people are born as shapeshifters, wolves. Most of them are banished into the wilderness and are called wildlings. Finnadro knows them and can even ask them for help. Apparently, it's also his job to make sure that they don't bother the tribesmen. Now, we see that some of the shapeshifters can shift into different forms but they seem to be even more shunned than the wolves. We also get to hear a couple of the old legends which I found fascinating. We also get to see a few scenes from the war between humans and the Aelfae. In Dindi's visions about Vessia we get to see how a human and a fae try to build a life together and it isn't easy. And Dindi and Umbral encounter a new human clan during their travels.
Wing is another great continuation with twists and turns. It's ends with a great cliffhanger!
March 19, 2019
Love this book... And the entire Unfinished Song series!!! Tara Maya is the best author I've read!!! Love you, love you, love you ♡♡♡ Tara
April 24, 2013
I have to say I had forgotten how much I had loved The Unfinished Song until I started reading Wing. Then oh my gosh it just hit me all at once. There was also a part of me that was afraid I wouldn't remember characters or important parts of the storyline. This is book 5 in the series after all and its been a while since I read Root, book 4. But again it all came flooding back!
I have to say the fifth book is just as good as the first. I love the world Maya has created. Faearth is AMAZING!!! Plus I LOVE the characters. Especially Dindi. Umbral even began to grow on me!
Also the way Maya weaves her story and all her players together! Some stuff definitely didnt turn out like I thought it would, but it somehow made the story even better!
Lots more secrets and histories are revealed in this one and it ends in a cliffie (of course!) But on the upside characters arent dying left and right. However I feel that I have been lulled into a false sense of security and given the title of the next book is Blood the characters might start dying again. *SIGH* Ah well, it is worth it the story again is AMAZING!!
I soooo recommend reading The Unfinished Song series if you havent already! It is amazing!
I have to say the fifth book is just as good as the first. I love the world Maya has created. Faearth is AMAZING!!! Plus I LOVE the characters. Especially Dindi. Umbral even began to grow on me!
Also the way Maya weaves her story and all her players together! Some stuff definitely didnt turn out like I thought it would, but it somehow made the story even better!
Lots more secrets and histories are revealed in this one and it ends in a cliffie (of course!) But on the upside characters arent dying left and right. However I feel that I have been lulled into a false sense of security and given the title of the next book is Blood the characters might start dying again. *SIGH* Ah well, it is worth it the story again is AMAZING!!
I soooo recommend reading The Unfinished Song series if you havent already! It is amazing!
October 22, 2012
The author has done it again; left me wanting more! Each new book just drags me deeper and deeper into the addiction. I just love this story! I see the pages fly by as I read and I KNOW there's a cliffhanger at the end of the book, even though I wish there wasn't because I want to know the rest of Dindi's and Kavio's and everyone else's stories. Each new book further develops the characters and adds new elements and twists. I can't wait for the next book, but I know in the meantime the author is writing and polishing the book to make it the best she can.
Thanks for the fantastic reads Tara!
Thanks for the fantastic reads Tara!
December 16, 2012
This series is one for the ages. The promise of 12 books drew me in but the complexity of the story line, attachment to the characters, and love of the genre has me hooked on this series.
Not just for one age group, I would recommend for teens to adults to read and live in the world of Faearth.
A brilliant and new take on the Fae and their time on Earth.
Love. Must read. Can't wait to read the next books.
Not just for one age group, I would recommend for teens to adults to read and live in the world of Faearth.
A brilliant and new take on the Fae and their time on Earth.
Love. Must read. Can't wait to read the next books.
October 19, 2012
Another page turner from a true story teller. The images are so vivid and the story flows rapidly. I waited on pins and needles for this to come out and now I'm waiting again.
I do have to caveat this review though, I could have done without some of the sexual/sensual references so I could recommend this to more of my friends.
I do have to caveat this review though, I could have done without some of the sexual/sensual references so I could recommend this to more of my friends.
February 6, 2014
An excellent book to read which ends on a disappointing cliffhanger, and although the second novel is available for free via email - it was still disappointing that it isn't a stand alone book. Dislike it when 'B' grade TV shows end ona cliffhanger, but it is more so for books. If the book is good, people will come back to buy more.
January 4, 2013
Well this story is dragging, I have to read the rest of the series to find a happy ending because there's not a lot of positivity for the main character yet and the author seems like she's hell bent on Dindy having a unhappily ever after.
I wait with baited breath!
I wait with baited breath!
January 21, 2014
So good... Soooooooo sooooooooooo good. Onward to book 6....
August 6, 2014
It is getting good again.
March 14, 2024
Full of exciting
Another great book in the series. Well written, full of excitement, tension and full bodied characters.
I look forward to book 6.
Another great book in the series. Well written, full of excitement, tension and full bodied characters.
I look forward to book 6.
November 6, 2012
This is another amazing book in an amazing series. I am so glad I found this author!
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