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deep into character development in this second installment of the Transgressor Trilogy! SwiftHook keeps the pressure on for Avilon, Jariq, and Durban as they enter Harkera and prepare to face the wrath of a tyrants army.
Durbans past had some awesome reveals, I did not see a certain betrayal until it sprang off the page on me, either, This trilogy keeps getting better,

As with any good volume two, we realize in Times of Change that the stakes are much higher, and destinies seem closer twined, Im so pumped to get through the third book, Ive chosen to speed things along by listening to it with eReader Prestigio and the vocal talents of the GPS lady.


I received ebook copies of the trilogy in exchange for honest reviews, Im enjoying the series so much that I bought the trilogy in paperback for my dad, He got me into scifi and fantasy to begin with and I like to get him books for presents to pay him back because I borrowed the Wheel of Time series from him for a decade.
That was partially my and partially Robert Jordans fault, those things are huge! Anyhow, Dad said he likes how things get going right away, Hell probably finish before me, but I hope not because his synopsis can often include the ending!

People who enjoyed the Dune series, love character driven stories, or Space Opera in general are in for a great read.
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It was clear to me from the beginning that Times of Change is in the “wonderfully convoluted” class fantasy novel again, Somewhere in the middle, having the feeling of an imperfect characterization, I settled for an amalgamation between “wonderfully convoluted” and “constructive chaos”, Filled with intelligent main characters, none of them dressed in just black and white, most of the story is a battle of wills and different interpretations on how a society could be governed.
While already accustomed with the characters from the first book in the series, I could not pass over the increasing subtlety of Vavasors perception and actions, He did not follow Qabal just from loyalty, He was able to perceive that an unified kingdom will end all wars, just that they needed more wars to, . . end the wars.
Between all those strong characters, there is a secondary one, the only one filled with a certain ingenuity and normal human feelings: Princess Karlynne, I wished that she could be able transfer more of her personality into the surrounding world, and I thought that Caers personality could have been exploited in a more restrained manner.

Times of Change: Transgressor Trilogy Bookby E, M. SwiftHook

As soon as I finished the first book of this series which I enjoyed so much I bought the next, I had to find out what would happen to the three main characters in their individual search for an answer to their very different problems, The difficulty in writing this review is how to describe the enthralling story without giving away the plot and the continuous twists and obstacles the trio encounter,
A warlords brilliant general who all believe has the blood of a massacred city on his hands, an off world freedom fighter captured and branded a slave by the backward society that captured him and a man so skilled in deception that it is difficult for any but himself to know what his goal is.
These characters are cast like dice into a world on the brink of consumption by the warlords lust for total domination, Will the throw alter the course of history Do any of the participants even care about the outcome Can the last bastion of near civilisation dare to entrust its survival to a proven traitor, a man on the run and someone who many consider to be a grinning liar.

To answer these questions you will need to follow the tortured path that these men follow, To succeed they must fight their way through a world where even fait and chance seem loaded against them, Join their band, saddle your pony and make ready for a nerve jangling foray of danger betrayal and mistrust to an uncertain future,
I can promise that you will not be disappointed and will cling on by your fingernails to this splendid fantasy till the bitter end,
Five Stars.
This was great. Good characters and a really well thought out plot, This is the second book I have read from this author, fittingly, for this is book two of this trilogy, It does feel like a trilogy the first book ended with no neat resolution of the matters at hand, and the second one even more so, for it began and ended with no firm foundation.
But then again, in a political, treacherous world of evershifting alliances and duplicity, can one find such Sometimes I think authors write trilogies from the onset so they can write more than they would with standalone books!

The author employs intelligent, poetic words that had me reaching for a thesaurus or dictionary quite a few times, and it amazes me how she could come up with those.
Apparently, on a primitivelifestyle planet that recalls the days of the nomads on our world, everyone in nobility or the military speaks with cunning wit and with a vocabulary as wide and deep as the ocean and maybe even a few snatched from the Mariana Trench.


My favourite part was the loyalty testing and military intelligence examination of Jariq, as a potential commander of an army,

Did I enjoy the book I did feel enthralled by the concise prose and the muchelevated onomastics I cheatedI checked a thesaurus in this story, This is an intelligent piece of fiction, At other times, I waded through the endless manipulations, the insidious machinations, and the conniving stratagems darn it, the author has influenced me! and wondered where the story was going.
Sometimes, a development happened, but then faded away without lasting consequence such as a predicament involving a preteen princess, and unrelated to that, a horrible beating happening to one of the main characters.


But yes, if you have patience, love of darn good storytelling, and an expectation that this is Lord of the Rings pacing style but much more adult, youll like this book.

Id read the first book of this trilogy, The Fated Sky, earlier this year, and it was good to return to the story to see what happens next.


Many of the main characters return and their stories develop during the course of this instalment, We learn more about Avilon Revid, the space traveller now trapped on this backwards world, as well as Jariq, a general whose reputation is undeserved, and Durban, whose complex plans sometimes lead to grave personal danger.


The same detailed world building and attention to depth of characterisation are to be found in this second book, This does make for a slow paced read, not exactly a page turner, but it does draw you into the lives of the characters and it kept me happily entertained on cold winter evenings with a glass of red wine in my hand.


This detail does mean some overly long narrative passages, The change in Avilon, when he is meeting an external threat whilst also combating an internal one, felt very sudden and unexpected, Some of the major characters in the first novel barely feature in this one, and we are introduced to a major player Jaelya who did not feature in the first book.
This did create a bit of a disjoint between the two books of the trilogy, The injection of another bit of science fiction the background to Jaelya and Durban also felt very unexpected, and I would have

preferred some foreshadowing in the first book so that this was less of a surprise and more of a oh, yes, now I understand moment.


Durban is one of the most intriguing characters Ive ever found in a novel, and I found myself caring deeply for Jariq, who is so unlike the reputation which surrounds him.
I also enjoyed the irony that the people who visit Temsevar by space craft view it as a backwards world, when they themselves are at least as violent as the people they detest.


This book is highly recommended, and I look forward to the third book in the trilogy,
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