Booklog 70/2020: Andrea K Host: The Silence of Medair – Medair #1

[jacey]

Medair is a royal herald who sets out to find the legendary Horn of Farak, the ultimate weapon against enemy invaders. She succeeds… and wakes (with the weapon) five hundred years later when the invaders, Ibisians, commonly called White Snakes by their enemies, have taken over and integrated. Unable to reveal her true identity, she's trapped into helping a 'White Snake' adept. Out of place and out of time, she struggles with/against her growing respect for what the White Snakes have become as another enemy threatens the borders. Medair has a magical bag with a set of magical artifacts as well as the horn, but does she want to use them to help the people who were once her country's enemies? There are some interesting philosophical conundrums. I was disappointed to get to the end of this, however, and discover it was part one of two books. Though there was an ending, not everything was resolved. There's a complicated (occasionally impenetrable) system of address - too complicated at times. My brain just glossed over most of it. There's also a deus ex machina change in the latter part of the book which was a bit strange. I liked this book, but I didn't love it and probably won't read the second volume. This is a self-published book and I feel that with some expert editing it could have been elevated from decent to excellent.