There is a couple of different types of magic that we see that I really liked and would happy to have myself.Ĭallie Bates writing style is super easy to read, I picked the book up and dived right in and lost myself in the story. I loved the idea of music magic and how it connected to the fabric of the world. One of my favourite element is magic and how waking the land impacted the people. It makes the plot interesting and fast-paced as Sophy is always having to deal with something either personal or professional. The Soul of Power has more political intrigue as Sophy has to deal with other political movement trying to take the throne from her. I enjoyed seeing their communication from both sides. There are moments in both Memory of fire and The Soul of Power where Sophy, Jahan and Elanna communicate. But it doesn’t, The Soul of Power is Sophy story, for the must of the book the story us running in parallel with Memory of Fire. (Synopsis from ) The Soul of Power is a stunning conclusion to the Waking Land series.Īfter reading The memory of fire, I thought that The Soul of Power would pick up where it finished. And worse, Sophy is hiding a huge secret-one that could destroy her tenuous hold on the crown forever. Now it is up to her alone to navigate a political maze that becomes more complex and thorny by the day. When Elanna is captured and taken to Paladis, Sophy’s last ally seems to have vanished. And every third person seems to be spontaneously manifesting magical powers. Half the nobility in her court want her deposed, and the other half question her every decision.

With an influx of magic-bearing refugees pouring across the border, resources already thinned by war are stretched to the breaking point. Caught up in Elanna Valtai’s revolution, Sophy has become the reigning monarch of a once-divided country-a role she has been groomed her whole life to fill.īut as she quickly discovers, wearing a crown is quite a different thing from keeping a crown. Separated from her birth mother, raised by parents mourning the loss of their true daughter, and unacknowledged by her father, Sophy desires only a place and a family to call her own. Sophy Dunbarron-the illegitimate daughter of a king who never was-has always felt like an impostor. One young woman learns the true nature of power-both her own and others’-in the riveting conclusion to The Waking Land Trilogy. The third and final book in the series is The Soul of Power. Another series I have now finished is The Waking Lands by Callie Bates.

The waking land series