Dark Harmony by Laura Thalassa

We now enter the next part of the Thief of Souls’ plan as all the sleeping warriors start waking up and attacking their kingdoms.

In retrospect, it was probably a bad idea to inter them with their weapons.



The quest to figure out WHY IS FATHER ALIVE takes them to a place that is leeched of magic. I find that an interesting concept, like magic is a natural resource in this world. Like water would be, and in it’s absence the land is desolate. And the ones who live there can smell it and will come hunting for it.

Given that they have set a trap for the locals, I find that an inopportune time to bone down, but they get lucky and nobody stumbles on them while they’re busy. In general I find their priorities a little questionable, they also go for a vacation on earth in the middle of all this so they can have sex and do shots. Forget Temper being mad because she wasn’t invited, I would be mad because maybe partying could wait until after you’ve won the war and your enemy isn’t launching zombie soldiers at your people?

In general there was a lot more sex in this book than in the previous two. There are also more cultural references – not just Des’ t-shirts, but apparently they watch Harry Potter together. My personal opinion is that writers should avoid that kind of thing since they get dated really fast. HP in particular has not aged well.

I was also kind of surprised that Des walked right into Typhus’ throne room and immediately went on the attack. (Typhus? She named a character Typhus.) I shouldn’t have been, given how he behaves around courts that are actually his allies. Turned out Typhus deserved it, but still, that wouldn’t have been my first play.

It also becomes clear that in part Karnon’s death was a suicide. He knew changing Callie would call Des and he chose to do that rather than continue to be controlled by the Thief. That’s a really sad ending for Karnon, although I do appreciate that it gave him some agency.

I didn’t hate the way the plot resolved – powerful males really are that arrogant – but it did bother me how long it took for Callie to figure things out. She’s supposed to be a professional PI. The dreams in particular were wasted on her, the Thief wanted to boast so badly and she didn’t pay attention to any of the things he was telling her until it was almost too late.

I also felt like Temper was really wasted. She’s supposed to be a powerful enchantress and she could have really shone in so many battles. Instead she was mainly emotional support when Callie was upset and then conveniently sidelined the rest of the time.

So in general I would give this book a three out of five? It kept me interested right to the end but I feel like it didn’t live up to the potential of Rhapsodic.



category : Romantasy

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