What an interesting conclusion! Before I’d read The Witch Roads, I’d seen the name Kate Elliott in the past, when browsing bookstore shelves or at the library, but I’d never really heard of anyone reading her work or read any online chatter about her books. I loved the Witch Roads - it was fantastic and was exactly what I needed at the time. You know how sometimes you just want a big long fantasy novel to sink your teeth into? The Witch Roads was that and more.
So I was very excited when I got an advance reader copy from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review of the sequel and conclusion to the duology, the Nameless Land.
This book was good, but was not what I expected. After the end of the last volume I expected to see the protagonist accompany the prince to the capital for imperial succession drama. Instead, the book detours into the titular nameless land where we learn more unexpected backstory of the protagonist. The ghostly shorn dragon from the first book returns, because of course he had to, but it happened much later in the story than I had anticipated and the return was worth waiting for. Overall, I liked this book a lot, even if I liked it less than the predecessor - and part of that was a mismatch between what I had anticipated and what we got that is not fault of the book itself. I definitely will pick up Ms. Elliott’s next book set in this world.
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