BOOKS : Luck of the Wheels
This is the fourth and final Ki and Vandien book, following on from Megan Windholm's previous one tha tI have just mentioned below (Limbreth Gate). As a completion to a series it doesn't really complete a 'story arc' but is an OK episode in their adventures. There is an important milestone reached right at the end of the book, but most of the events are very much localised to the book.
K&V are stuck in an arabic style country run by a despot and haven't quite worked out that the place is not too friendly to strangers. The only cargo work they can get is delivering a boy to a town 14 days away, and strangely they are given some extra cash by the bar keep when she finds out they are doing it...
The night they have set off and a young woman running off to her fiance catches up with them and begs them to give her a lift, they acquiese.
Things are not, of course, what they seem. We have the various characters emotions pushed to their extremes as disaster and deceit combine to tear their hearts apart.
I wasn't that fussed really, and was waiting for it to finish, though I did quite enjoy it (is that possible?) Some of Vandien's stuff was great, and I think it is unfortunate that the last 2 books really became dominated by Vandien, whereas I was initially excited about the strong female (not male with boobs) character of Ki. Precursor for Althea I guess.
K&V are stuck in an arabic style country run by a despot and haven't quite worked out that the place is not too friendly to strangers. The only cargo work they can get is delivering a boy to a town 14 days away, and strangely they are given some extra cash by the bar keep when she finds out they are doing it...
The night they have set off and a young woman running off to her fiance catches up with them and begs them to give her a lift, they acquiese.
Things are not, of course, what they seem. We have the various characters emotions pushed to their extremes as disaster and deceit combine to tear their hearts apart.
I wasn't that fussed really, and was waiting for it to finish, though I did quite enjoy it (is that possible?) Some of Vandien's stuff was great, and I think it is unfortunate that the last 2 books really became dominated by Vandien, whereas I was initially excited about the strong female (not male with boobs) character of Ki. Precursor for Althea I guess.
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