Empire's Passing - Empire's Legacy 8
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Ages: 18+
Empires Fall, Love Endures
The once-mighty Empire of the East crumbles, casting a long shadow over the lives of those far from the battlefield. Gwenna, the Principe of Ésparias, struggles with the weight of leadership in the absence of her father. Her bond with her partner, Lynthe, unravels as war threatens.
Lena, devastated both by Cillian’s death and by Sorley’s bitter rejection, cannot help her daughter. Grief threatens to consume her: seeking purpose, she journeys eastward, on the trail of a traitor to Ésparias and in the hope of finding her son Colm.
In a world on the brink, Gwenna and Colm, Lena and Sorley must choose their paths. Can Gwenna reconcile duty with love? Can Lena find healing in the arms of the past? Will their decisions shape the destiny of their nations, or will they crumble like the Eastern Empire?
Reviews
How does one write an epic conclusion to a book series that holds so much intelligence, wit, love, war and emotional turmoil, strategy, adventure, multiple cultures with their own traditions and beliefs, alliances negotiated? How does one write an epic conclusion to the current state of affairs in between countries that have been at peace for 30 years? By ending an empire, of course. These characters had become family, I had learned to trust them and love them. They had become, in a sense, real. Having read the whole series, and now the conclusion, I feel like I myself have lived a life. A very full, wholesome life full of kinship, music and love.
I really felt the characters and found them vibrant and real. This story enriches all the others with its look into deeper conflicts and sorrows in relationships – and love that does not end with death, even as people’s worlds come to an end. I loved the spiritual touch that’s stronger in this one – but still without any organized religion. . . It is a story of things broken, of grief, both new, raw-edged grief, and older griefs, longings never fully satisfied.
