Un - flippin’ - believable! AND a wedding to boot!
So this novel, ostensibly, and let me stress OSTENSIBLY, is about Ridge and Sardelle’s wedding. However, HOWEVER, en route to that wedding, with which the novel concludes, we have several micro-stories each with its own mystery and resolution and not an inconsequential number of battles which our heroes must win before they can reach the wedding. Who would have thought that picking out a wedding dress or asking royalty to stand up for you at your wedding could possibly lead to such drama? Well clearly Buroker could, did and then committed those thoughts to paper.
Let me tell you. It is the perfect uproarious way to celebrate this couples’ nuptials. And, unlike Mary Poppins, who only managed to make it practically so, this story is absolutely perfect in every possible way.
We have secrets and intrigue, sacrifice, kidnappings and rescues, explosions and chases and even still more mischief managed and all without the marauders having a magical map to help them out.
This book sets, yet again, an exceptionally high bar against which others should be measured, and Buroker shines most brightly in a firmament filled with a multitude of other fantasy stars.
If you are as moved by the material you read as much as I, or even to a small degree, I guarantee you will be laughing, crying and cheering at several points as you read this book. And if you have magic, as I do not, beware the man with the glowing sword. He won’t like you.
ENJOY!