The Edge of Worlds

, #4

eBook, 475 pages

English language

Published April 5, 2016 by Night Shade Books.

ASIN:
B07H4YSG2G
4 stars (1 review)

An expedition of groundlings from the Empire of Kish have traveled through the Three Worlds to the Indigo Cloud court of the Raksura, shape-shifting creatures of flight that live in large family groups. The groundlings have found a sealed ancient city at the edge of the shallow seas, near the deeps of the impassable Ocean. They believe it to be the last home of their ancestors and ask for help getting inside. But the Raksura fear it was built by their own distant ancestors, the Forerunners, and the last sealed Forerunner city they encountered was a prison for an unstoppable evil. Prior to the groundlings' arrival, the Indigo Cloud court had been plagued by visions of a disaster that could destroy all the courts in the Reaches. Now, the court's mentors believe the ancient city is connected to the foretold danger. A small group of warriors, including consort Moon, an …

3 editions

reviewed The Edge of Worlds by Martha Wells (The Books of the Raksura, #4)

A little gentler than the others

4 stars

This book was a little like her later Murderbot books, slow and character building sequences interspersed with blood-pumping action.

And this book ends in a cliffhanger! It's late tonight, but I have to continue with the last book....