Before you read this review, keep in mind that it is for a sequel and thus will likely contain spoilers from the first book. You have been warned.

You can read the review of Book 1: Draykon if you so desire. 

“The long-vanished draykon race has been restored to the Seven Realms, and the mystery of the istore stone is resolved. But Lady Eva Glostrum returns to Glour City with many questions unanswered. Who are the enigmatic sorcerers who woke the draykon? Their powers are beyond anything she has ever known. With one dead and one vanished – literally – Eva has little to go on save a book taken from a mysterious tower in the Lowers, its cover marked with the strange word “Lokant.”

Llandry Sanfaer is anxious to learn more about the glorious draykoni, whose story is so inexplicably bound up with her own. But when she brings another draykon back from the Long Sleep, she finds she has made a grave mistake. Worse, a white-haired sorcerer with a talent for mind control is stalking her across the Worlds…

As war builds between humankind and draykoni, Eva must uncover the identities of the sinister white-haired practitioners – and come to terms with the truth of her own heritage.

And Llandry must learn why she appears to be their primary target…”

I‘ve always been rather drawn to character interaction; the light, often vaguely sarcastic/humorous tone of the conversation in Lokant, especially in the most unlikely of circumstances, continuously made me smile. Something I greatly appreciate in books that I’m reading. (There is no such thing as smiling too often.)

The books have a faint steampunk vibe to them; it’s meshed in with the rest of the story quite well, but I think that any fans of steampunk would be rather drawn to this particular story. I see the technology being elegant yet unpolished; gears and magic, metal and will.

Perhaps the main reason I like Draykon/Lokant is because they have a slightly different flavor than many books I’ve read lately. The worlds are different, the characters are different, the creatures are different… it really is a nice change.

I like the first book a bit more, mostly because it seemed to focus on Landry and Eva. They haven’t disappeared from the story-line in this one, but there are so many others that are begging for attention that the story is split up a bit more. I wish I got to spend more time with each of them individually.

I am happy to report however that a third book is in fact in the works, so we certainly haven’t seen the last of them!

Lokant was less beautiful; the tone was more serious, more political than Draykon. You begin to be immersed in the how’s and why’s and the mystery is slowly revealed.

In the first book, even though I didn’t know exactly what was going on, I was pretty sure I knew who was going to end up with whom. By the end of this book not only did I not know, but I wasn’t even sure who I was rooting for anymore! (And I’m usually pretty loyal when it comes to my preferred love interests!)

And boys, before you start to worry, any romance is far from the focal point!

So did I like it? Yes. I think that Charlotte will simply keep improving as she writes more books and I look forward to finding out where her imagination takes her.
 

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Before you run off you should know that you currently have a chance to win “Lokant” and its prequel “Draykon”.  Entering is easy, comes with no pesky obligations and who knows… you might get lucky!! Head on over to this blog post to find out how to enter! (Contest closes Saturday, December 17th, 2011.)

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