And those plans don’t necessarily work well alongside others’. It’s a quest, basically (which I love) through the land of death where everything is trying to kill them – and they can’t trust those around them either.Įveryone has secrets (some they don’t even know themselves) and plans of their own for how they want their lives to go. From physical barriers like the truly chilling interpretation of the various rivers to monsters chasing the crew, it’s not an easy journey Deina has embarked on. The Corrs’ latest outing is a Greek Mythology-filled fest about freedom and fighting for your own path, all while trekking through the underworld in a clever take on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth.Īll sorts of Greek mythology related to the underworld are woven together into this dark, perilous journey. The prize of freedom is before her – but what will it take to reach it?īlurb taken from Goodreads. So begins their perilous journey into the realm of Hades. But to win, she must enter an uneasy alliance with a group of fellow Severers she neither likes nor trusts. Then the tyrant ruler Orpheus offers both fortune and freedom to whoever can retrieve his dead wife, Eurydice, from the Underworld. As one of the Soul Severers serving the god Hades on earth, her future is tied to the task of shepherding the dying on from the mortal world – unless she can earn or steal enough to buy her way out. Written in rich detail and evocative language, this is the start of an irresistible, soaring duology about courage, broken loyalties and fighting for your place in the world.Deina is trapped.

Driven by revenge and love, she must venture into the malevolent heart of the Citadel in order to seek the truth about the attack that so nearly destroyed her, to fight for the only home she has ever known and for the land she has vowed to protect. With the benevolent shelter of her mother and her father now lost, Aderyn is at the mercy of her brutal uncle, the King, and his royal court.

But she has not transformed for years, not since witnessing the death of her mother - ripped apart by hawks that have supposedly been extinct since the long-ago War of the Raptors. When her father dies just before her birthday, seventeen-year-old Aderyn inherits the role of Protector of Atratys, a dominion in a kingdom where nobles are able to transform at will into the bird that represents their family bloodline.

A Throne of Swans by Katharine Corr