Sephryn is like Nolyn – half-human, half-Fhrey (basically an elf) – and is being forced by a sinister stranger to acquire a mythical item, for reasons unknown to her. We also follow Sephryn, who is Nolyn’s lover, or former lover, I’m not entirely sure where they stand at the start of the book. Along with a small band of survivors, Nolyn sets off on a course of action to find out who wants him dead, and ends up caught up in much more than a single assassination plot. In Nolyn, we follow the emperor’s son, Nolyn Nyphronian, who starts out in the middle of the jungle on a certain death mission. This sounds like the books might be a trio of standalones rather than a traditional trilogy where events follow on from one book to the next. The Rise and Fall series, of which Nolyn is the opener, is set one or two thousand years prior to events in the Riyria books, and it’s planned to be three books detailing the rise and fall (I assume) of three key figures in this world’s history. Nevertheless, Nolyn interested me and I wanted to have another try of Sullivan’s work. His Riyria Revelations series is in my top 10 list, but for some reason I just couldn’t get into the Riyria Chronicles, which is a prequel series detailing the origin story of the Riyria duo, Royce and Hadrian. Nolyn is the first in a new series by Riyria author Michael J Sullivan. ** Review copy supplied by Netgalley, with my thanks to them and to the publisher, Grim Oak Press **
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