Joining the Alliance might be the key to seeing the worlds she's always dreamed of, but Ada's new job causes a rift to form between her and her guardian, Nell. As she struggles to come to terms with the events of the previous month, Ada is reluctant to use magic again after the damage it caused.
Kay, meanwhile, faces his first challenge as one of the Alliance’s offworld Ambassadors - helping his colleague, Markos, investigate the mysterious death of the centaurs’ king back on his homeworld of Aglaia. When they realise magic is involved, Ada is pulled into the investigation. But tensions between humans and centaurs run high, and avoiding a bloodbath will be more difficult than any of them expect. Especially when Kay discovers something about his own magic that could affect the future of the Alliance.
Against an enemy they quite literally can’t see, Ada and Kay must face up to the power that almost destroyed their lives…
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I already enjoyed Adamant, the first book in the series, and couldn't wait to get my hands on the continuation of Ada and Kay's story. I wasn't disappointed.
The world building in this series is amazing! Even in book 2, where we already have learned quite a bit in book 1, it's simply fun to explore and experience this rich realm even further and let fantasy take full flight. Science fiction fans get a great dose of creatures, magic and outer world scenes, making it hard to set this book down after that last page.
As to the characters, I've simply grown to love both of them. Ada is so full of strength and often a little to ready to dive into danger, yet her hopes of doing the right thing, make her also hesitate and sometimes reluctant in her actions--a mixture which makes her very human. And Kay is a perfect match for her. Of course, there's a bit of romance to make the heart melt, but this by no means over powers the story. There's action and adventure, and tension and danger. I had no trouble sticking to the pages, waiting to discover what would happen at the end.
In other words, this is a great sequel to Adamant and has me excited to read further adventures, and see what happens next.
Start the series with Adamant (Alliance, #1), reduced to 99 cents this week!
Magic. Monsters. Murder. Welcome to the Multiverse.
The Inter-World Alliance is the only force standing between Earth and the terrifying monsters of offworld. But one girl is about to shake up the balance...
Ada Fletcher is twenty-one, keeps a collection of knives in her room, and lives under the Alliance's radar, risking her life to help refugees from a devastating magical war on her homeworld hide on the low-magic Earth. But when she's taken into custody by the Alliance, her unusual magic makes her a prime suspect for a supervisor's suspicious death.
Kay Walker, grandson of the Alliance's late founder, expects to spend his first week as an Alliance employee chasing monsters out of the dark Passages between worlds, not solving a murder. But when his supervisor dies in suspicious circumstances, he finds himself in charge of questioning a girl he arrested as a suspect. A girl with secrets that force him to confront his own narrow escape from magic's destruction, and threaten to make both of them into the murderer's next targets.
The last thing Ada wants is to help the infuriating Alliance guard who arrested her, but it soon becomes clear that the Alliance knows too much about Ada's offworld origins. More, in fact, than she knows herself. Now she has to choose between loyalty to her family, and helping the Alliance save the Earth - and the Multiverse - from a deadly enemy.
What reviewers are saying
"The world building is magical. Even though we only get a hint of what's out there, I am already in love with this world." - Lola at Lola's Reviews
"I found the book to be well written, in a pace that kept me really interested all the way through the book... this book is a great read, the beginning of a potentially brilliant and addictive series" - Jeanz Book Reviews
"Emma has created a fantastic, brilliant world in ADAMANT. The world is filled with raw and authentic characters, whether they're human or centaur or something else entirely... This book is a unique, fun read, and I'd recommend it to everyone who enjoys sci-fi and fantasy." - Amazon reviewer
"The world building is magical. Even though we only get a hint of what's out there, I am already in love with this world." - Lola at Lola's Reviews
"I found the book to be well written, in a pace that kept me really interested all the way through the book... this book is a great read, the beginning of a potentially brilliant and addictive series" - Jeanz Book Reviews
"Emma has created a fantastic, brilliant world in ADAMANT. The world is filled with raw and authentic characters, whether they're human or centaur or something else entirely... This book is a unique, fun read, and I'd recommend it to everyone who enjoys sci-fi and fantasy." - Amazon reviewer
“Adamant is a fantastic start to a fun, adventurous and super cool series... it's original, it's got cool creatures, cool magic, mystery, rich background and history to the world, colourful characters, both supporting and main… a world so well written and brought to life you can totally lose yourself in it, and it's utterly fantastic... Can't praise it enough!” - Alisha at Reality's A Bore
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Emma spent her childhood creating imaginary worlds to compensate for a disappointingly average reality, so it was probably inevitable that she ended up writing speculative fiction. She was born in Birmingham, UK, which she fled at the first opportunity to study English Literature at Lancaster University. In her three years at Lancaster, she hiked up mountains, skydived in Australia, and endured a traumatic episode involving a swarm of bees in the Costa Rican jungle. She also entertained her creative writing group and baffled her tutors by submitting strange fantasy tales featuring dragons and supernatural monsters to workshops. These included her first publication, a rather bleak dystopian piece, and a disturbing story about a homicidal duck (which she hopes will never see the ight of day).
Now a reluctant graduate, Emma refuses to settle down and be normal. When not embarking on wild excursions and writing fantasy novels, she edits and proofreads novels for various publishing houses and reads an improbable number of books. Emma is currently working on the Alliance series, a multiple-universe adult fantasy featuring magic, monsters, cool gadgets and sarcasm. Her upper-YA urban fantasy Darkworld series is published by Curiosity Quills Press.
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I have to say, the books look amazing just based on the covers alone!
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