Before I start the review, I want you to keep this in mind: BUY THIS BOOK

Seriously. BUY THIS BOOK, and the previous one.

Why? Because It’s SO FREAKING AMAZING, that you should actually panic. Marie Powell K I L L E D   I T! DAMN! I could not let this book go, not even after 150 pages read on the first stretch. It’s THAT powerful, and magnetic.

Now, the review:

OK! Marie Powell is already a VERY appreciated house writer, because this is the SECOND book of hers that we review.

In fact, this is the follow-up book for the amazingly entertaining, and extremely well-written book “The last of the gifted – Spirited Sight“, that received a 8.4/10 rating, and currently holds the title of having the BEST cover of the year.

Talking about covers, Water Sight’s cover is just as sublime as the previous book’s. Surely we will have a tie because this cover is a BANGER! I mean, look at it! And let us not forget the book design that helps to make these books even more special. Mad props to Callum Jagger and Adin Nelson at Amaya Editing Inc. Excellent job guys.

Without a second to spare, Marie Powell grabs our attention and swiftly throws us back into this fantastic world as if we read the last sentence of the last book 10 seconds ago. We can at once familiarize ourselves again with the rocky mountains, the fog that covered the retreat of our friends and the looming dread of being discovered by the English army fuelled with bloodlust. just below the mountains. We don’t have to wait for long before action kicks in again, and all the elements of fantasy return to the seemingly normal quest of Cat, Hyw, Rhys, and Llywelyn and Bran.

She “comes at us” in full force, holds our breaths demanding full, undivided attention towards her story, that runs towards its happenings and we have no other choice but to try to keep pace with it. Now, don’t get me wrong, this is not a book that was hastily written, oh no, this was thought-out TO THE DETAIL, to the comma.

Our beloved characters pass through some VERY distressing times and hope is the only thing that keeps them going, because, and surely, they can find a way out, as it always happens in the books, right? Well… not quite, and that’s the thing that makes this book great! The uncertainty of war, on a weakened country against a great foe. The betrayals, the spies, the strategies, the deaths, the emotional toll on our characters, many of them to be no more, as death and pain is sprayed all around, mercilessly.

It’s amazing how Mary Powell can keep us interested in the book with so many hopeless and grim happenings while making us happy, not sadistically, of course, but entertained in a way that we want to know more, and more, and more!

Marie Powell uses the abilities of Cat to keep us even more grounded with and to the book because although Cat has visions that “foretell” the future, we, as readers cannot “predict” what will happen next, and this is how the author keeps us glued to this book, by the tension of expectation, uncertainty, thriller and oh, the dire and unfortunate happenings, its consequences and implications!  It’s BEAUTIFUL, from start to finish.

If Spirited Sight is a hard slap, Water Sight is a shotgun blast to the face with heart-warming, and heart breaking relationships, and I must say, the most awesome gay couple EVER(!) that makes this romance PERFECT for Pride-month. LOVED IT!!!!!!! Not only for the fact that Marie Powell had the guts to put such a dynamic on the book  but because she did so without “ruffling feathers”, and with quite grace and acceptance towards it. It’s beautiful and that gained EXTRA points for the book. VERY well done!!!

Strong female characters, strong male characters that not even once “fell out of grace”, quite frankly, I can not remember a male character that will annoy the reader with a “macho” thing, not even the villains(!) something exceeding professional, classy, and mature from Marie Powell. Excellent job in the character construction and development sector of the book. Amazing.

Water Sight is a multi-layered, deeply intertwined novel that BEGS for a follow-up book, a follow-up that we also want “not” to have due to the “unorthodox”, and yet quite satisfying, ending that she gave us. We are left torn between another GREAT book, and the fact that the ending seemed… fitting after all that they have gone through, because there is still MUCH more to be explored here.

Marie Powell is an author that we as writers should take example from, and as readers, to look out and appreciate more.

Pros:

• EXCELLENT narrative
• EXCELLENT pace
• EXCELLENT plot
• An ending that fit and left us longing for more
• Great descriptive ability, both of characters, their emotions, and the scenes
• Fluid wording throughout the book that facilitated reading a LOT. You won’t have to stop and think
• Great character development
• Realistic approach towards war happenings, the character reactions according to their roles and motives
• Vivid imagery painted on the reader’s mind
• Solid weight to the story and the feeling throughout by a consistent narrative and “mood”

Cons:

• Zero. Zilch. Nada. Not even one. Awesome book

Lesson from the book: “You cannot avoid pain”

Cover Score: 10/10

Final Score: 9.1/10

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Probably the BEST historic fiction book we will have this year. It will be hard to beat this one.