A dark fantasy, 2nd of an epic trilogy.

Brings a wide range complex characters to life within an emotionally charged world...who can you trust? Eliza develops like a chameleon fitting into the developing context & surroundings, in this power based fantasy world, where humans are treated as slaves.

It continues to be a plot based, engaging page turner that you can get yourself lost within.

Thank you NetGalley and author Alex Thornbury for the copy in exchange for an honest review.

"Elika crosses the Bridge to Magic to find the world ruled by magic, where nothing is as it seems. Mages run the streets, whilst the tsaren, their masters, war with each other. Though it is men who pay the price with their lives.

Faced with the injustice of the mages and the new world order, Elika discovers her own untapped gifts that may yet shift the balance of power back into the hands of men. But her dabbling in the power she does not understand draws the attention of the dreaded demigod Syn’Moreg.

Elika must now outwit the shadow that hunts her, whilst seeking a way to free mankind from their oppressors. Yet dark grows her heart, and to darkness it reaches for that which the shadow denies.

As whispers of newly found heir to the Sacred Crowns grow to cries of war, Elika comes to realise that she may not be the saviour of mankind after all. Mite has proclaimed himself King Northwind, and marches on Terren to claim what is rightfully his. Elika is certain he will fail, unless she can vanquish the one power standing in his way. But to do that, she must convince the court and the archmage that she is the demigoddess Arala returned."

I thoroughly enjoy this book.

Alex Thornbury continues her tale of teenage Elika who was raised on the hard streets of Terren on the half of the world without magic. Thief and pickpocket, she hides the magic inside her even as that side of the world succumbs to desolation. She is the last living soul in the city to cross The Bridge to Magic (paper) and soon finds herself in a world dominated by mages, pieces of magic animating dead humans. Elika might be related to the Gods, whose universe rarely touches the world of humans. As she survives and then learns to harness her magic, she discovers she can destroy the magic animating the corpses, and becomes known as The Rogue Mage (ebook from Shadow Lore Publishing) but the consequences of the destruction is a corresponding blight. A demi-god starts training her in her magic and she finds her first love, but that brings her to the attention of other demi-gods. A third book will complete this fascinating and absorbing tale, Wow so far.