Cliste Bella: Book Review | The Speaker (Sea of Ink and Gold #2) by Traci Chee

Having barely escaped the clutches of the Guard, Sefia and Archer are back on the run, slipping into the safety of the forest to tend to their wounds and plan their next move. Haunted by painful memories, Archer struggles to overcome the trauma of his past with the impressors, whose cruelty plagues him whenever he closes his eyes. But when Sefia and Archer happen upon a crew of impressors in the wilderness, Archer finally finds a way to combat his nightmares: by hunting impressors and freeing the boys they hold captive.

With Sefia’s help, Archer travels across the kingdom of Deliene rescuing boys while she continues to investigate the mysterious Book and secrets it contains. But the more battles they fight, the more fights Archer craves, until his thirst for violence threatens to transform him from the gentle boy Sefia knows to a grim warrior with a cruel destiny. As Sefia begins to unravel the threads that connect Archer’s fate to her parents’ betrayal of the Guard so long ago, she and Archer must figure out a way to subvert the Guard’s plans before they are ensnared in a war that will pit kingdom against kingdom, leaving their future and the safety of the entire world hanging in the balance. [n.]

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I'm thankful I started book 1 when book 2 was already out. No need to wait to find out what happened after that cliffhanger in book 1. Hahaha. It felt like 1 huge book instead of 2 separate books because I never left their world (except to charge my tablet for a few hours).

Sefia and Archer are still on the run, this time not just from Serakeen and the unknown people they now know as The Guard(1). They are running from a prophecy of The Red War where a boy with a band scar around his neck would lead an army and bring peace to Kelanna. But it would also mean he would die alone. Sefia doesn't want the boy to be Archer, but on their travels he finds purpose in ridding the whole of Kelanna of the Impressors and freeing their captives. Sefia realizes that Archer is indeed the boy of the prophecy, so she tries her hardest to find a way to save his life even if it means she has to let him go. She "joins" The Guard and there she discovers the reason why her parents ran in the first place - Sefia is also part of the prophecy. The missing page in the book tells of the story of the Sorcerer who will help the Scarred boy bring the much sought after peace in their world.

"Some of the ancient Masters believed that Teleportation was not a matter of remembering the places you've been, but of finding your way back to the stories that had such a powerful impact on you that they'd become entangled in your own."

With all the Fantasy books I've read over the years, the magic of that Traci Chee wove is so refreshingly original that I have enjoyed every bit of this book. No skipping paragraphs just to find out what happens, every page is action packed and so very well imagined. I'm expecting a third or fourth book in this series because 'what is written will come to pass' and of course I want to see Sefia and Archer defy the odds of The Book.

I relate so well with Sefia because I am a Reader too and I feel like I have as much magic as she has and not just because of the words she has learned to use. I will be a good girl and blissfully wait for the next book to devour.

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