Will reviewed Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The POV Switches Make This Book
4 stars
The story overall isn't all that great, but the contrasting worldview of the two POV characters gives it something special.
eBook, 176 pages
English language
Published Nov. 15, 2021 by Tom Doherty Associates.
Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way.
But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she’s an adult (albeit barely) and although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here (though none in living memory has approached it).
But Elder Nyr isn’t a sorcerer, and he is forbidden to help, for his knowledge of science tells him the threat cannot possibly be a demon…
The story overall isn't all that great, but the contrasting worldview of the two POV characters gives it something special.