Touch of Power (The Healer Series, 1, Band 1)
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Stressed and tired from hiding, Avry is abducted by a band of rogues who, shockingly, value her gift above the golden bounty offered for her capture. Their leader, an enigmatic captor-protector with powers of his own, is unequivocal in his demands: Avry must heal a plague-stricken princeleader of a campaign against her people. As they traverse the daunting Nine Mountains, beset by mercenaries and magical dangers, Avry must decide who is worth healing and what is worth dying for. Because the price of peace may well be her life .
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Hiermit hatte ich auf jeden Fall meinen Spaß. Das Grundszenarien wirkt nicht sonderlich einfallsreich, aber die Charaktere reißen es definitiv wieder raus. Mich hat vieles an Robin Hood und seine Marry Men erinnert. Wer Gefallen am found family trope findet, kommt hier definitiv auf seine Kosten. Die Romance ist seicht und langsam, praktisch gar nicht vorhanden - und ich mag das inzwischen soooo viel mehr als alles, was derzeit im Romantasy Genre zu finden ist. Es gibt ein oder zwei Augenblicke , in denen man sich denkt: "hmm, da läuft doch was?", aber hier geht's tatsächlich eher um den Plot. Letztendlich fand ich das Ende etwas enttäuschend und es fühlte sich alles zu einfach und leicht an, was mich jetzt nicht direkt dazu verleitet, weiter zu lesen. Vielleicht geb ich Band 2 ne Chance, mal sehen.
I really liked this book. I'm a little afraid though that the quality of the following books will drop, just like it happened in the Poison Study series. But I'll see. The world, consisting of 15 realms, had a lot of potential, which was a little wasted, since no map was introduced. At least that's how I felt. Avry and her companions undertake quite a journey and a map would've made this journey more replicable. The magic system had more potential as well. Out of the many forms of magic, only forest, life, and healing magic were talked about in detail. Since those three were very interesting, I bet the other forms would've been interesting as well. And I wanted to kiss the author for not making the magical reserves inexhaustible. Many authors do that with their "strong mages" and in my opinion it's just so far-fetched. The characters were well written as well. The travel party consisted of many different personalities, which made the banter amusing and the characters themselves distinguishable. But I have to admit an aversion against Avry's "perfection". She was just so pretty, intelligent, talented, empathic, funny, etc. and I can't remember a real error that would've made her more human or relatable. She was just so .... good.
Avry is a healer, and right now isn't a great time to be a healer. After a plague wiped out 1/3 of the population, healers are hunted and killed for allegedly starting the plague. But Avry is a healer at heart and despite being on the run, she decides to heal another child. The child's father reports her and sye gets arrested, to be killed in the morning. She is rescued by Kerrick, Bellen, Loren, Quain and Flea. And they embark on a long journey against Avry's will to heal Rhyne (whom Avry doesn't want to heal for various reasons). I love this book, it's my second time reading it and I remembered some of it but almost none of the plot after the first half. I only had ghosts of memories. And it's a great book, even the second time around. I love Avry, she's a great example of a strong female character, who has flaws and is in a bad situation but she accepts it. Being a healer in this world means taking on people's wounds and alliements to save them. This isn't a great position but Avry just enjoys it, she's very empathic and generous but also stubborn and pig headed at times. The supporting characters are awesome in this book, all of Kerrick's men have personnality and depth, it's just incredible. Bellen was my favorite, as it's intended I bet. He's the friend Avry needed and that's what I love. The monkeys and Flea were really fun and completed the team perfectly. Kerrick was the type of mmc I love. He is brooding, focused, has a cause. He's a jerk to begin with and redeems himself slowly throughout the book. That's what we love. The romance is very light, but it's sufficiently there and hits all the right spots. The world building isn't my favorite though. The world imagined by the author is good, I think it could be amazing but a lot isn't explained. I guess maybe it's dwelled on more in the next books, but it seemed light for this one. I wish more about the realms were explained. Why were there 15 realms to begin with? What are the differences? There has to be a lot of history there. And if it isn't something you want to focus on, maybe create a world with 5 realms? Especially if they're going to end up being united in the end. Also the magic isn't explained at all, like some gifts are talked about like Kerrick's forest mage powers but.... a forrest mage is very specific so are there river mages to ocean mages to water mages? How are gifts given? Through birth? Through luck? Nothing is really expalined. And I love world building so that wasn't that great. The villain also wasn't great... all he did was based on his Daddy issues and resentment towards a guy who didn't do anything but have a loving father. And overall it isn't that bad but with the kind of aweful, despicable things Tohon does, I wish he more of a reason. I'm re reading this book because I couldn't remember why I didn't read the whole series. And after reading this again, I still couldn't remember. And I was about to buy the next book when I was hit this the genius idea (the same one that hit me after reading it the first time) to read a few reviews. And now I remember. The second book features a separated main couple which is one of my pet peves and a love triangle, which I loathe. The ending of the third book isn't that satisfactory frol what I gathered from the reviews, not enough to suffer through a separated couple. Still 4 stars for this one!
Description
Stressed and tired from hiding, Avry is abducted by a band of rogues who, shockingly, value her gift above the golden bounty offered for her capture. Their leader, an enigmatic captor-protector with powers of his own, is unequivocal in his demands: Avry must heal a plague-stricken princeleader of a campaign against her people. As they traverse the daunting Nine Mountains, beset by mercenaries and magical dangers, Avry must decide who is worth healing and what is worth dying for. Because the price of peace may well be her life .
Book Information
Posts
Unterhaltsam.
Hiermit hatte ich auf jeden Fall meinen Spaß. Das Grundszenarien wirkt nicht sonderlich einfallsreich, aber die Charaktere reißen es definitiv wieder raus. Mich hat vieles an Robin Hood und seine Marry Men erinnert. Wer Gefallen am found family trope findet, kommt hier definitiv auf seine Kosten. Die Romance ist seicht und langsam, praktisch gar nicht vorhanden - und ich mag das inzwischen soooo viel mehr als alles, was derzeit im Romantasy Genre zu finden ist. Es gibt ein oder zwei Augenblicke , in denen man sich denkt: "hmm, da läuft doch was?", aber hier geht's tatsächlich eher um den Plot. Letztendlich fand ich das Ende etwas enttäuschend und es fühlte sich alles zu einfach und leicht an, was mich jetzt nicht direkt dazu verleitet, weiter zu lesen. Vielleicht geb ich Band 2 ne Chance, mal sehen.
I really liked this book. I'm a little afraid though that the quality of the following books will drop, just like it happened in the Poison Study series. But I'll see. The world, consisting of 15 realms, had a lot of potential, which was a little wasted, since no map was introduced. At least that's how I felt. Avry and her companions undertake quite a journey and a map would've made this journey more replicable. The magic system had more potential as well. Out of the many forms of magic, only forest, life, and healing magic were talked about in detail. Since those three were very interesting, I bet the other forms would've been interesting as well. And I wanted to kiss the author for not making the magical reserves inexhaustible. Many authors do that with their "strong mages" and in my opinion it's just so far-fetched. The characters were well written as well. The travel party consisted of many different personalities, which made the banter amusing and the characters themselves distinguishable. But I have to admit an aversion against Avry's "perfection". She was just so pretty, intelligent, talented, empathic, funny, etc. and I can't remember a real error that would've made her more human or relatable. She was just so .... good.
Avry is a healer, and right now isn't a great time to be a healer. After a plague wiped out 1/3 of the population, healers are hunted and killed for allegedly starting the plague. But Avry is a healer at heart and despite being on the run, she decides to heal another child. The child's father reports her and sye gets arrested, to be killed in the morning. She is rescued by Kerrick, Bellen, Loren, Quain and Flea. And they embark on a long journey against Avry's will to heal Rhyne (whom Avry doesn't want to heal for various reasons). I love this book, it's my second time reading it and I remembered some of it but almost none of the plot after the first half. I only had ghosts of memories. And it's a great book, even the second time around. I love Avry, she's a great example of a strong female character, who has flaws and is in a bad situation but she accepts it. Being a healer in this world means taking on people's wounds and alliements to save them. This isn't a great position but Avry just enjoys it, she's very empathic and generous but also stubborn and pig headed at times. The supporting characters are awesome in this book, all of Kerrick's men have personnality and depth, it's just incredible. Bellen was my favorite, as it's intended I bet. He's the friend Avry needed and that's what I love. The monkeys and Flea were really fun and completed the team perfectly. Kerrick was the type of mmc I love. He is brooding, focused, has a cause. He's a jerk to begin with and redeems himself slowly throughout the book. That's what we love. The romance is very light, but it's sufficiently there and hits all the right spots. The world building isn't my favorite though. The world imagined by the author is good, I think it could be amazing but a lot isn't explained. I guess maybe it's dwelled on more in the next books, but it seemed light for this one. I wish more about the realms were explained. Why were there 15 realms to begin with? What are the differences? There has to be a lot of history there. And if it isn't something you want to focus on, maybe create a world with 5 realms? Especially if they're going to end up being united in the end. Also the magic isn't explained at all, like some gifts are talked about like Kerrick's forest mage powers but.... a forrest mage is very specific so are there river mages to ocean mages to water mages? How are gifts given? Through birth? Through luck? Nothing is really expalined. And I love world building so that wasn't that great. The villain also wasn't great... all he did was based on his Daddy issues and resentment towards a guy who didn't do anything but have a loving father. And overall it isn't that bad but with the kind of aweful, despicable things Tohon does, I wish he more of a reason. I'm re reading this book because I couldn't remember why I didn't read the whole series. And after reading this again, I still couldn't remember. And I was about to buy the next book when I was hit this the genius idea (the same one that hit me after reading it the first time) to read a few reviews. And now I remember. The second book features a separated main couple which is one of my pet peves and a love triangle, which I loathe. The ending of the third book isn't that satisfactory frol what I gathered from the reviews, not enough to suffer through a separated couple. Still 4 stars for this one!