Some characters are trapped in a terrible present that they want to escape, and are searching for anyway to rewrite the past or find a future with hope. Some characters have lost their past and are working hard to discover who they are and what happened to them. While the magic of the world surrounds manipulating time’s flow, the themes that are explored by the cast also revolve around time. The Licanius series is all about time in many senses. The Quill To Live explains: “ Book two however, is where the plot starts to really become clear.
All the story arcs conclude in an intense and exciting fashion…” There are a few tragic moments, unexpected deaths, and brief torture scenes. The pacing was slightly off for me here very occasionally…The final third sees everything speed up and previous complexities seem to make sense.
The magic scheme is still enhanced and pretty glorious though and through Caeden’s flashbacks we are given views of the phenomenal potential it can have as well as the history surrounding it and it’s past users…The magic-system, world-building, and character-development are sublime. Certain side characters never feel as fully fleshed as I would have liked though and more often act as devices to point the main characters in a certain plot direction. Andyn, Wirr’s witty and mysterious bodyguard was a personal favourite. A fair amount of new characters are introduced or expanded on from the shorter almost cameo roles they had in the previous book. James Tivendale of Fantasy Book Review says: “ The narrative starts slowly and takes a few 100-pages to really get going. I really loved the first book, so did that carry over to An Echo Of Things To Come, or did it suffer from “middle book syndrome”? Read on to find out, and beware of spoilers for this book and the previous one, but first a few guest reviews collected from other sites… In my review of James Islington’s The Shadow Of What Was Lost, the first book in the Licanius trilogy, I praised his worldbuilding and character development, but I was concerned that 3 books would not be sufficient to effectively wrap up the plot. One Sentence Synopsis: Wirr must deal with the fallout of repealing the laws against gifted and Augers Caeden begins to regain his memories and struggles to deal with them Asha investigates the disappearance of Shadows and discovers a greater threat and Davian runs into problems at the Tol while his instincts urge him to get to the failing Boundary as soon as possible.
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