However, due to reduction in plot activity, the good all reliable fall-back option of romance drama was evoked. ~Slow Narrative Pacing: While there was a lot going on plot-wise for Ashling, it seemed to run out of steam after they arrived at Sutrium and the Gypsy sub-plot was supposedly resolved, I got a little bored waiting around for them to all head off to Sador. ~Character Development: Nearly all the characters changed and grew in acceptable and meaningful ways, some negative and some positive, however I found that Elspeth’s character journey did border on cliché “Chosen One” territory. While I think the mysterious coma convenient, I did feel it had a more natural domino effect on characters and plot than the rebellion one. ~Sources of Conflict: There were an interesting mixture of conflict sources, the Salamander and slave trade sub-plot was interesting, however I found the Rebellion sup-plot with Malick was predictable but it was something that needed to be addressed. Jakoby and her daughter might be once off characters but I get the feeling they will be popping up again.
~World Building: I liked learning more about the Twenty Families Gypsies and Sadorians and their own private cultural experience with The Great White in comparison to the land-dwellers. Here she discovers that she will need help to destroy the weaponmachines.īut before her dark quest can begin, Elspeth must learn the truth of her demise: she must understand why the Beforetimers destroyed their world… The journey takes her far beyond the borders of the Land, across the sea and into the heart of the mysterious desert region of Sador. She travels from the mountains reluctantly, for at any moment the long-awaited summons may come from the oldOnes to find and destroy the dormant weaponmachines left by the Beforetimers. The powerful farseeker Elspeth Gordie is sent to Sutrium, seat of the totalitarian Council that rules the land, to seal an alliance between the secret Misfit community at Obernewtyn and rebel forces.
Beasts called them ashlings: dreams that called…’ ‘Sometimes dreams were gateways through which messages might come. Price and Format: $22.95 Paperback format
Title: Ashling (Book 3 in The Obernewtyn Chronicles)
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