![]() ![]() Secrets can be woven into cloth to make it into armour. It has a slow, stately feel to it as well as making it feel like you’re watching events on an island that doesn’t quite exist – but instead lurks behind a veil of magic. ![]() It is a stunning book, gorgeously written and full of little details about the plants and food that really bring the Scottish-inspired world to life. There is always a certain worry when going in to a highly anticipated book that it will fail to live up to your expectations. He hasn’t stepped foot on Cadence in ten long years, content to study music at the mainland university, but as Jack and Adaira reluctantly work together it becomes apparent the trouble with the spirits is far more sinister than first thought and an older, darker secret lurks beneath the surface, threatening to undo them all. ![]() ![]() But there’s only one bard capable of drawing the spirits forth by song: her childhood enemy Jack Tamerlaine. The capricious spirits that live there find mirth in the lives of the humans who call the land home, but that mischief turns to malevolence as girls begin to go missing.Īdaira, heiress of the east, knows the spirits only answer to a bard’s music, enticing them to return the missing girls. Enchantments run deep on the magical Isle of Cadence: gossip is carried by the wind, plaid shawls can be as strong as armour, and the smallest cut of a knife can instil fathomless fear. ![]()
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