NookAndCanny finished reading Cuckoo (the under the NORTHERN SKY Series, Book 3) by Leo Carew
Albion continues to be divided by revolt and bloodshed, as alliances collapse and are made …
Content warning There is no happy end. Not even an evening of. Not for the story and not for the bigger story behind. The Humans (The Sutherners) won, Nature (The Anakim) lost fatally. It leaves you with a feeling of .. That can't be it.
The trilogy is about the war between The Sutheners with its canny spymaster Bellamus and the Anakim with its exceptional Black Lord Roper, a long living folk full of tradition, honour and pride.
The books are amazing telling the story between the uniqueness of a folk facing a greediness for power and control, conquering but more so gold and wealth.
I have to admit that I needed way longer than expected for The Spider but the story is thrilling, the characters fantastically created. You feel with them, you fight with them, you die with them. Literally.
Only when I read the last book The Cuckoo I realised that this story is more than a fantasy. It tells the story about us, the greedy manhood. Always wanting more, more, more. And on the way to getting more, in that never satisfied wanting we destroy everything that makes this world so beautiful, so divers, so stunningly magical.
The last book shows perfectly how desperate manhood is to extinguish everything that does not align with their own values, which - in the books as well as in reality - is gold, wealth, power. No matter the cost.
That's probably the reason I cried my heart out when I finished the last one in this series.
Even for the ones who don't like to read fantasy I highly recommend the Northern Sky series by Leo Carew. He combines Northern Mythology with Islandic, European, British and Scandinavian culture. Truly a gem.