Just as intricately woven together as book one, Talonsister, Titanchild follows several groups of characters as they now all have a shared enemy-the Othanim. Led by a huge wicked queen, Icaraine, who has a monstrous son with six eyes and changeable amounts of limbs, she has decided that the other titan races (so mainly griffins at this point) should be wiped out as they’re not as worthy as her own race, and that humans are slaves or entertainment depending on the whims of her army. Princess Epona is leading the rebellion against these flying monsters from the city of Londus and working to free her mother, the rightful queen of Brittletain, Broudicca and try to work with her sisters who were so splintered in book one. Envoy Kaeto is still hanging out with the only two Othanim who aren’t running round murdering everybody in sight, Belise and Felldir and trying to hold onto this as a secret from the Empire. Leven, Cillian and Ynis are still trying to track down T’Rook and get her away from the clutches of the evil alchemist Gynid Tyleigh. And overall more myths, legends and magic are awakening in response to this invasion.

I thought the individual storylines were so well woven together and really enjoyed it each time the separate groups managed to spend any time together. There was a lot of secret keeping, plot twists and new developments happening through the book and I thought it was an excellent ending to the duology.

I waited to be able to listen to the audiobook of this as that’s how I’d read Talonsister, so thank you very much to NetGalley for that. Jot Davies’ character work is exceptional and the entire cast felt so distinct and memorable.