Evastany

Draykon #5

by Charlotte E. English

When Lokants get involved in our worlds, it always means trouble.

Oh, they are fine folk, no doubt about that. Powerful, intellectual, mysterious. Sometimes devastatingly attractive. But if they are not killing our citizens and reviving long-lost species from the dead, they're kidnapping people, blowing things up or trying to take over the world. It's always something with them.

This time it's kidnapping. Partial Lokants are going missing, and they are not coming back. It falls to me, Evastany, Lady Glostrum, to discover why. Well, who else can be depended upon to do it?

On top of which, there is a Master Lokantor with far too much interest in the realm of Orlind; the founding (and funding) of my new Lokant Heritage Training Bureau; and I still have my wedding to plan.

It is going to be a busy year.

Genres: Fantasy

287 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 3, 2017

About the author

English both by name and nationality, Charlotte hasn’t permitted emigration to the Netherlands to change her essential Britishness. She writes colourful fantasy novels over copious quantities of tea, and rarely misses an opportunity to apologise for something. Spanning the spectrum from light to dark, her works include the Draykon Series, Modern Magick, The Malykant Mysteries and the Tales of Aylfenhame.

Reviews

[Steven Tryon · Rating 5 out of 5]

I keep saying this. "Charlotte, you have outdone yourself again."

I do believe that if Eva were to discover she could shift to Draykon, she would rule the world. After all, she has stared down one of the Ancients and a Lokantor.

Highly recommended. But do start at the beginning of the series with the Draykon trilogy.

Now I have to read Seven Dreams again. For the third time. Eva's journal filled in a lot of gaps. Yeah. Start at the beginning.

[Berita · Rating 4 out of 5]

I felt that the excitement from the previous books got a little lost here, since this was the last book in the series - and so many threads had to be (hastily) gathered.

Not so happy with this either, both "Llandry" (book four) and this one is for me the most boring books. The two first was absolutely best, the middle one was - hm, medium.

Somehow Evastany is a little to full of herself her, she almost seems a bit Mary Poppins'y to me, if you understand what I mean. "Oh, I know so many fancy words, and love to look and sound rather clever - but I cannot be bothered to come off as snooty, so I pretend to be a bit self-sarcastic as well - ha hah ha". She is high class and aristocratic, but that is a fun quirk in small dosages. Not the entire book.

[Kiran Omenra · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best Book to read :)

Good flow of English language.
Nicer and best story line to read and share with almost all friends and colleagues.

[Steven Tryon · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed the different writing style Evastany's journal versus Llandry's. Both are characters, but characters of different sorts.