by Sherwood Smith
I liked parts of this.... Its strength is the multiple views of the eponymous character, whose struggles would seem too simple without that context. I don't mean that Smith complicates things unnecessarily, rather that it'd be hard for the reader to grasp the whole without the antagonistic reactions...
I enjoyed it, but I would have liked to have heard more about Kyale and Leander. What was Erdrael? Really. What happens to all these kids? Do they all have their own stories, just not published yet? Do they all grow up? How does the no-aging/ youth spell work? What was the backstory of Mara Jinea an...