Book Review – The Memory of Souls by Jenn Lyons
THE LONGER HE LIVES
THE MORE DANGEROUS HE BECOMES
Now that Relos Var’s plans have been revealed and demons are free to rampage across the empire, the fulfillment of the ancient prophecies – and the end of the world – is closer than ever.
To buy time for humanity, Kihrin needs to convince the king of the Manol vané to perform an ancient ritual which will strip the entire race of their immortality, but it’s a ritual which certain vané will do anything to prevent. Including assassinating the messengers.
Worse, Kihrin must come to terms with the horrifying possibility that his connection to the king of demons, Vol Karoth, is growing steadily in strength.
How can he hope to save anyone when he might turn out to be the greatest threat of them all?
My rating:
I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
I think I was expecting this to be a trilogy – spoiler alert! It’s not! 😂🙈 So that definitely threw me once it became clear. Though – yay more books!!
That aside though, I continue to totally adore this series. It very much follows in the veins of books one and two, so if you enjoyed those, you’re in a for a great time. This spends a good amount of time slowly ravelling in all those plot threads, and really shows how it all ties together.
Also, I didn’t need to reread the first two before picking this up, which is both good and bad – good because they’re huge and bad because they’re excellent and I would have enjoyed that lol. Lyons does a great job of giving a little overview at the start, making it super easy to just dive right in.
I particularly like the past lives element completely messing with all the characters. There’s a scene about two thirds of the way through that is full of this and made me laugh as well as appreciate the brilliance of the writing. It’s hard enough to write an epic fantasy without the characters all being more than one person!
The narrative continues to be excellent, and as I have largely read these in audio form can I shout out to how well the narrators do? They really add to it. I love the way it’s told as a story – and the elements of infighting between the narrators are always hilarious too. And the stories always have a point, which makes it really work – sometimes this format can get a bit tired, and these really are some big books, so it’s even more impressive that it continues to really add to the book.
I honestly can’t wait for book four! 4.5 stars.
Buy The Memory of Souls from Waterstones.
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