Medium – Audiobook
About the Book – Auraya is a young woman who is picked to be one of the White – five humans who become immortal and serve as the sword and shield of the gods. They are imbued with magic, and given special properties, but Auraya is different – gifted with strong magic rivalling the gods themselves, as well as wisdom and inner strength. Auraya seeks to bring peace to her world, but as she learns more of the gods and of the people opposing them, she realises that not everything is as simple as she has always thought…
My Rating – 1.5/5
My Thoughts – So usually, I love a bit of fantasy. I’m all for strange worlds, female heroes and magic/swords etc. But this book, well it just dragged. I have heard that Trudi Canavan is a good writer, but I just didn’t enjoy this book. I found that the characters melded into one, the split POV for each chapter seemed to ‘chop’ at really odd places, and the main character (Auraya) just was a bit meh. She was a bit of a Mary-Sue – very lovely and kind and powerful, but didn’t seem all that relatable. The plot was OK, but very quickly just got a bit boring. I don’t know, maybe it’s me, but the reviews on Goodreads also seemed a bit mixed. I got through about five hours, but in the end I’ve moved onto something else!
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