Mistlight
The Aenigma Lights, Book 2
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Narrated by:
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Kate Reading
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By:
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JA Andrews
Keeper Kate has spent weeks searching for her missing brother.
Following his trail, studying clues, and using the mysterious aenigma box to help reconstruct the story of what had happened to him. But she's gotten the story dreadfully, catastrophically wrong.
Now, faced with the losses and scars from her failed search, she and Venn must tackle a new obstacle: the elven White Wood and its ruthless king.
In a desperate attempt to find her brother, Kate finds herself entangled in a deadly quest to find the Warden of the Wood—a search that will lead to Kate's own death if she doesn't complete it in time.
Through a cursed ravine, a hidden ancient library, and centuries-old secrets, Kate and Venn struggle to sort out truth from legend and find the Warden before time runs out—for Venn and Kate and the entire human land.
Mistlight is book two of the Aenigma Lights trilogy. Half treasure hunt and half rescue mission, this epic fantasy adventure is a tale of puzzles, mysteries, and the kinds of friendships—both old and new—that shape the soul.
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From there, things go pear-shaped, leaving Kate at the mercy of the king, whose own, seemingly unrelated agenda becomes increasingly entwined with Kate and Venn’s. It gradually becomes evident that, alongside Kate’s mission to save her brothers, the health of the White Wood is at stake. So too is Kate’s magic, and her life, due to the elven king’s manipulations.
Around the moments of exciting drama, Kate and Venn spend much of Mistlight hunting for answers to mysteries surrounding the long-dead mage, Renault, and recent inexplicable events. The novel is replete with historical accounts and magical theory and, by the end, Kate has answers to many of her questions — several of which pose new conundrums.
Venn, meanwhile, faces her own challenges of loyalty — to Kate, Bo (to whom she owes a life debt), her people, and the White Wood itself.
I love and adore the friendship between Kate (an accomplished woman of 32) and Venn (being an elf, considerably older). Through shared adversity, they’re forging a lifelong (presumably platonic) bond that’s the heart of these books.
The smallish but mighty support cast includes: Tribal and Silas, the incorrigible twin dwarves introduced in Runelight; Crofftus, the mage reliant on the bodies of wild creatures for survival; and Fix, a shy, mute gnoblin who joins the group.
Like Runelight, Mistlight is an intimate book of layered characters and complex motivations. The scope is confined at the surface, but the story goes deep, building and building to an exciting climax. Aside from the main goal (find the Warden, find the box), I have absolutely no idea what is about to happen next in the third and final book, Lastlight, but I’m looking forward to finding out!
(Once again, I listened to the fabulous audiobook and freely availed myself of the maps on the author’s website, which help with the geography of the relatively small area in which most of this book is set.)
Highly recommended for those who like a deeper fantasy book with a slower pace that rewards.
Sumptuous and magnificent
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