Douglas Meeks's Reviews > The Singer

I am having a much harder time writing the review for this second installment in the Irin Chronicles, it is not because it was not amazingly good, it is more because I hardly know where to start (or where to end)

We know at the end of The Scribe which was a novel of romance, danger and sacrifice that Ava was almost a broken person. In this novel we have a journey across Europe to find the Irina the females of the Irin race who have all but separated themselves from the world for their own safety.

I am not sure how much I should say about Malachi since much information would be a spoiler indeed. So I will kind of constrain myself to pretty much what the synopsis has said with the statement that Malachi spend almost all of the book searching for Ava to answer her call from the last book "return to me". Heady stuff indeed.

The most mind boggling thing about this book is trying to figure out Jaron, I still have no idea what he is doing, why he is doing it, is he on anyone's "side" and the last chapter just blows most things I might have thought apart and dumps a ton of more questions in my lap. Waiting for the next book is going to be pretty much as torturous as waiting for this one.

5 Stars if for no other reason it makes me think, it makes me guess what might happen in the future and then it inserts things that make me question every hypothesis I have created. The central point in this novel although it reads as an urban fantasy in most parts, it IS a romance at the heart of the story and without the great romantic story of Ava and Malachi this story would just be another mediocre novel in an ocean of mediocre novels.

Now I shall be depressed until the next novel in this series, I can't wait..