Mourning Cloak by Rabia Gale

Mourning Cloak
by Rabia Gale

Mourning Cloak is better than Rabia’s first novella, Rainbird, and that took some doing. The worldbuilding is rich and fascinating and we’re dumped straight in the middle of it with a former hero and an injured mourning cloak, considered a northern species of demon. Except this one knows him and doesn’t seem to simply want to kill him. In trying to save her, Kato finds himself facing all the terrible things of his past he thought he had laid to rest and realizes that his own work as hero is not over. While I was able to guess the second major plot twist, the rest before and after kept surprising me. Allies were enemies. Enemies were friends. Nothing was quite what it seemed. The end of the book was emphatically satisfied but left me wanting more. Thankfully, the author says there are sequels in the offing. I look forward to them.

First Impressions:

Wow. A quick and engrossing read. Kato is a man who thinks he’s failed his god and his destiny and discovers that the seer aiding him saved him from failing his world. When Kato goes on a mission to rescue his captured wife, whom he thought deceased, he gets an opportunity to put the world to rights. A powerful story of how the right way may be beyond our understanding, and the path to redemption may be the path we thought led to perdition. Lovely, lovely, and I’m not doing it half enough justice.


Free Advance Review Copy - Author
2013

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