The Sigils of the Moor by Brendan CorbettMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This book just did not work for me. Part of that Might be because I was starting with the second book, so there was a fair amount that I had to pick up for what little context there was (so if you are interested at all in the series, I would highly recommend starting with book one). That said, I was also able to get a good feel for how the story was told … and the author’s style doesn’t work for me either. This part of the story was a basic travelogue … which is common enough for world building but not a smoothly executed here as I had hoped. So we have the MC and her mentor searching for clues to a mystery that is not clearly articulated, but is an existential threat to the “historian” order … who apparently keeps all history via runetrees that they can “commune” with … and which heavily depends on the good behavior of their various hosts presumably because they get something from this arrangement (although that is not well explained either). The world building itself was mostly interesting with a strong current of weirdness for weirdness sake and the main characters themselves where stiff and not very sympathetic (with a constant and very irritating theme as the ward asking to do stuff and the mentor pushing back with you really don’t want to do that so I forbid it … I mean … isn’t that what a mentor is supposed to be doing? At any rate … the story didn’t really capture my attention until the destination in the last half of the story where we finally get a few hints and the dark machinations going on … and we get a relatively small, and unexpected, resolution to some of the conflict … which obviously continues in book three.
I was given this free advance reader copy (ARC) ebook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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