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Legacy of Light
- The Compendium, Book 1
- Narrated by: Alix Nicole
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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Summary
If only they knew us as more than accursed.
The Holy Empire hates the People of Light. Maripes, arriving in its capital, seeks to save his people from certain destruction. The Inquisition seeks theocratic justice, and it will stop at nothing to rid the world of those it considers evil. Still, Maripes must try. For, if he fails, doom will certainly befall his people.
Standing in his way? The high inquisitor, the empress, and a million subjects all indoctrinated to believe he is evil incarnate.
Should be an easy task.
Otherwise, his son Mono, a soldier in the legions of their people, will face the fight of his life.
In the end, will Mono's daughter be forced to pick up the pieces of a broken world?
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- Jonathan
- 17-02-20
Interesting story but short
I recieved a review copy of this book. It felt very much like 3 short stories, all interconnected, all providing hints of a very interesting world, but all too short for me. Just as I would get interested in where a story was going it was over and we moved to the next one. Having said that the story elements were intriguing and the narration was excellent so I am looking forward to seeing where the next book takes it.
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- kharnynb
- 03-02-20
okay start of a series, bit short
this is a interesting enough start of a series, slightly let down by being quite short and having to jump forward rather fast to get to the next stage every time. The main character is quite engaging and even though she sort of gets her "powers" handed on a platter, is quite likable. The good/evil divide is quite black and white, but not out of place for fantasy.
Narration is decent if somewhat monotone at times, it gets better when the main character switches to female and the narrator gets up to speed.
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- Gillian M
- 27-08-20
Interesting Read, Succinct Storytelling
The ‘Legacy of Light (The Compendium Book 1)’ is an interesting read with highly descriptive writing, and I like the artwork for the cover incorporating the Tree of Life (it looks like a coat of arms). This story spans three generations and is centred around the Holy Empire (apparently a benighted theocracy) and the People of the Light (a more enlightened society).
With a theocracy, we are expecting an enemy of freedom and enlightenment, frequently using persecution, oppression, indoctrination, propaganda, the promotion of conspiracy theories with the aim to spread lies and misinformation to prey on fears and encourage prejudice, the denial of civil liberties, torture, and death by murder, execution or ‘holy war’. All done in the name of whatever ‘God’ is the theocracy’s recognised deity and orchestrated by some form of clergy as the power-wielding puppet-master. We don’t learn the name of the Holy Empire’s deity, but it is its religion that declares the ruling family to be entitled to rule in perpetuity (supposedly by ‘divine’ right). It turns out that the High Inquisitor is a member of that ruling family and he is a treacherous individual.
The People of the Light demonstrate that they have a more enlightened society. Clearly their own religion (centred on the Lord of Light) is an important part of their lives but they embrace tolerance and compassion and there are more freedoms. Same sex-marriage and same-sex parenthood are accepted and women are warriors and priests. Peace, harmony and love is preferred to war but they are prepared to defend themselves and to fight for freedom.
Maripes tries peaceful negotiation with the Holy Empire but he is framed for a murder he didn’t commit and is executed. His son, Mono, as a warrior, spends many years fighting to defend the lives and liberty of the People of the Light, eventually dying doing so. However, his final actions buy a period of greater freedom for some of his people because they are now effectively out of reach of the Holy Empire, and his daughter, Ermo, is given the chance to grow up. It also fulfils part of a prophesy contained in a scripture that apparently points to Ermo being the future ‘saviour’ of her people.
The book itself is divided into three parts, each one dealing with three different members of the same family. Ultimately, the main character is Ermo, and the bulk of the story centres around her, but it is necessary to have some context. The first two parts featuring Maripes (her grandfather) and then Mono (her father) do this successfully and quite succinctly; they contain a lot of information and set the stage for what is going to happen next.
With Ermo, we have a strong female character, who wants to find her life’s purpose in her own way. Talk about throwing herself headlong into that! She’s free-thinking, stubborn, courageous and compassionate. She goes through her own journey of self-discovery and enlightenment, nurturing new-found powers and harnessing them in conjunction with a couple of artefacts which were lost and are now found.
Alix Nicole is not really suited to creating voices for male characters but definitely came into her own representing Ermo. All in all, she did a pretty good job of the narration and I enjoyed listening to the story as an audiobook.
I am curious to see where the second book, ‘Enemies of Light’, will take us.
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