Genre: Urban Fantasy
LGBTQ+ Category: Asexual, Trans woman, Pansexual, Queer, Demisexual, Genderfluid, BIPOC
Reviewer: Lucy
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About The Book
In the epic conclusion to K.D. Edwards’ first blockbuster trilogy in The Tarot Sequence series, readers followed Rune on a race against time as an age-old threat rose to threaten the city of New Atlantis. Now, for the first time, The Eidolon tells what really happened to Max, Quinn, and Anna as prisoners in the Hourglass Throne’s base of operation.
The Eidolon is the first in a brand new collection of novels and novellas in the Magnus Academy Series. These stories will be told through the various points of view of Rune’s found family, ultimately leading to a planned arc of novels set at the new Magnus Academy.
The Review
The Eidolon by K.D. Edwards is a fabulous book with complex, interesting characters who have magical skills that help them to save their world. What it is not, however, is a standalone novel.
This was my first K.D. Edwards book, so I hadn’t read the Tarot Sequence series, which meant I had no background knowledge for this book. And I really missed out on so much of the story because I wasn’t familiar with the supporting characters who were discussed by the three main characters of this story, Max, Quinn, and Anna.
When some of those characters appeared, I didn’t have knowledge of their backgrounds or powers, which probably detracted from their impact on the story. So, if you haven’t read The Tarot Sequence trilogy, go grab those before you try to read this very excellent story.
It will be well worth the wait, because K.D. Edwards gives us a fabulous tale of good-ish versus evil-ish. Like so many great writers, Edwards lets us form our own opinions. In this tale, Max, Quinn, and Anna learned that sometimes, people are making decisions based on faulty information or on perceptions rather than fact.
The world-building is fabulous. The trio make their way into an underground world that is like a maze meeting a funhouse, with all kinds of weird and crazy places and people, a place full of magic and strange powers, with characters based on the Tarot Cards.
I loved the main characters Max, Quinn, and Anna, but even with them, I probably missed out on some of the nuances of their powers and even their relationships, because there were constant references to previous happenings that I couldn’t always discern. That doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy this book, because I absolutely did, but someone who is already familiar with the characters and the world would have gotten even more out of this than I did.
I enjoyed this well-written story by K.D. Edwards with all of its magical elements, strange, wonderful world and fabulous characters. But, it is definitely not a standalone. So that you get the best experience from this story, start at the beginning of the Tarot Sequence trilogy and work your way toward The Eidolon.
It will definitely be worth the wait, and you’ll get more of this author’s fabulous story-telling.
The Reviewer
I’m an avid reader who loves pretty much all genres except math textbooks. As a kid, my parents exposed me to everything from fairies, hobbits, and dragons to the biographies of interesting people around the world, interspersed with poetry, plays, and music. Into adulthood, I spent a lot of years with my nose buried in various textbooks. Now, I read whatever grabs my fancy.