The Lost Reliquary

Overall Rating: 4/5

If you were given the very thing that could kill a god... would you do it?

Even if it meant going against who you are as a person right now?

Once, there were six.

Now, only Tempestra-Innara remains. The Eternal Flame still burning while the others have been snuffed out.

Lys was conscripted as a child to be in service to the Goddess, to become one of her Chosen and one of her Children. She has been raised all her life as a member of the Dawn Cloister, a Dawn Potentiate at the call of her divine mother. And yet, even as one of her Children, Lys must hide her own secrets, her heretical thoughts that could have her in danger from her fellow Potentiates...her thoughts and her dream of deicide...

And that all becomes more than just a glimmer after her Cloister is attacked brutally, and she herself witnesses her Divine Mother, Tempestra-Innara... nearly die from that attempt. And Lys is sent with a member of a rival Cloister to hunt down the heretics... and a heretical artifact that could bring Lys's heretical thoughts to the end she desires....

A desire to be free.

And yet that same journey reveals to Lys a world that both brims with endless possibilities, and fresh dangers she has never known with her life as a Potentiate...

When I first started this novel, I did not know what to expect. I certainly quickly fell in love with the character's dark humor, as well as her own secretive wishes and desires. I loved the interactions of Lys and our other main character, Nolan. The world itself is also fantastic, although it is not the main focus... but we are still given plenty of detail as the story moves forward. I had slight issues with the first-person POV not being very smooth, and it felt clunky at times, and the way Lys always shifts her feelings and attitude towards Nolan... was a bit off-putting, but overall, The Lost Reliquary was still a satisfying read, and I am looking forward to its sequel when it rolls around.