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The Avatar's Flight
by Kristen Banet
adventurous
challenging
emotional
tense
medium-paced
This series was a surprise and a well deserved 5⭐ epic fantasy series.
Its too bad this series is shelved as a reverse harem romantic fantasy because it has all the elements of a well crafted mainstream epic fantasy series.
The main selling point for me was how well the story was plotted out across the 7 novels. Multiple storylines that twist around each other to allow the reader to feel connected to the FMCs found family as she grows and matures.
I suppose the overriding theme in this book is how love shows up in all sorts of ways. Brothers and husbands and fathers and mothers and children and friends and how they show up in our lives. That family occurs even if it's not blood relations and that blood does not determine family.
All the good fantasy themes are here: good vs evil. Magic. Dragons. Road brothers. Melee and combat. Political manoeuvring. Gods and supernatural journeys. Premature deaths. Epic battles.
The spice level is low but enough to keep it fun. In a novel with so much action and storyline it's not missed.
The journey to the end has some heart wrenching moments. Tears were shed.
Mave, the FMC is everything you could as for as a strong protagonist. This is a chosen one storyline as many fantasies are but she is put through many trials and tribulations before she takes on the mantle of all powerful. So the sacrifices are real. She doesn't learn all in a magical epiphany.
One thing that is rare in romantasy books is realistic combat. Just like the narrative has been carefully plotted out so each novel feels balanced and evenly paced, the characters that work together (the FMC and her found family and friends) are a balanced band of fighters. Fighters, rogues, rangers , magic users even a cleric/priest type of character. Even the fighter characters are different flavours with a mix of skills and styles.
All together the series never slows down but the different threads are introduced and resolved in timely manners so we don't feel that endings are rushed or stories dropped without being resolved. A problem in many epic or longer series.
Its too bad this series is shelved as a reverse harem romantic fantasy because it has all the elements of a well crafted mainstream epic fantasy series.
The main selling point for me was how well the story was plotted out across the 7 novels. Multiple storylines that twist around each other to allow the reader to feel connected to the FMCs found family as she grows and matures.
I suppose the overriding theme in this book is how love shows up in all sorts of ways. Brothers and husbands and fathers and mothers and children and friends and how they show up in our lives. That family occurs even if it's not blood relations and that blood does not determine family.
All the good fantasy themes are here: good vs evil. Magic. Dragons. Road brothers. Melee and combat. Political manoeuvring. Gods and supernatural journeys. Premature deaths. Epic battles.
The spice level is low but enough to keep it fun. In a novel with so much action and storyline it's not missed.
The journey to the end has some heart wrenching moments. Tears were shed.
Mave, the FMC is everything you could as for as a strong protagonist. This is a chosen one storyline as many fantasies are but she is put through many trials and tribulations before she takes on the mantle of all powerful. So the sacrifices are real. She doesn't learn all in a magical epiphany.
One thing that is rare in romantasy books is realistic combat. Just like the narrative has been carefully plotted out so each novel feels balanced and evenly paced, the characters that work together (the FMC and her found family and friends) are a balanced band of fighters. Fighters, rogues, rangers , magic users even a cleric/priest type of character. Even the fighter characters are different flavours with a mix of skills and styles.
All together the series never slows down but the different threads are introduced and resolved in timely manners so we don't feel that endings are rushed or stories dropped without being resolved. A problem in many epic or longer series.