Early on in the story he is captured by the enemy and freed by a young woman named Violet. We mostly follow Will: his mother has been killed sometimes in the close past after running for as long as he can remember, and now he is working in the docks of London and trying to keep a low profile. The plot is fairly basic: the protagonist is running away from people who want to kill him even if he doesn’t know why somehow he runs into the good guys and is swept to a safe place where he begins to learn that not all is as it seems, magic is real, and so is the Dark King who is trying to rise again. Oh, where to start? I went into this book with fairly high expectations – a chosen one, a battle between Light and Dark and, knowing the author, a very slow-burn romance somewhere in there as well. Now, trying to blend with the masses in the dirty docks of London, he is shocked when an old servant tells him that he will never be truly safe unless he finds the ancient order of the Stewards, men and women of exceptional martial prowess sworn to protect humanity from the Dark King if he ever rises again.īut even as Will he trains with them in what looks like a safe haven, the battle between Light and Dark looms closer than ever, and if they can’t stop it before it starts, the Dark King will destroy the world as they know it – just as he almost did once already. Will Kempen has been running for as long as he can remember, even before his mother was killed.
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