Halfling Tildi Summerbee led a typical, unexciting life, tending the house for her brothers while they managed the family farm - until she was forced to assume the identity of her recently deceased brother and accept his position as apprentice to a great wizard.
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Halfling Tildi Summerbee led a typical, unexciting life, tending the house for her brothers while they managed the family farm - until she was forced to assume the identity of her recently deceased brother and accept his position as apprentice to a great wizard.
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A very enjoyable read with sympathetic antagonists and flawed protagonists. Everyone is at least a bit complicated: in general, Nye portrays all her characters with flaws, and the question is how big those are and how the character deals with them.
While the group end up travelling a fair way, this isn't really the stereotypical Fantasy Journey; they encounter a few more of the world's races, but there's not much in the way of sightseeing.
Impressively, this book actually wraps up the story; I was half-expecting it to turn into the typical trilogy, but Nye's pulled off the all-too-rare two-part fantasy novel and skipped the usual unnecessary middle section altogether. The ending wraps things up pleasantly, and mostly optimistically, though there are still some losses and pains for the party to bear.
Tildi is a decent example of a genuinely non-violent protagonist. This is pretty unusual in my experience of fantasy; she's also very vulnerable, but not entirely passive, though I feel like she's more so in this book than the last; her quest and her captivity constrain her choices this time. Her limitations and vulnerability always felt in keeping with her stated character and background; despite her one unusual talent, Tildi isn't the common One True Hero with a retinue of themed followers, but one of several questers who just happens to be the protagonist.
