2022 Catch-up Review: Art of the Hunt

Art of the Hunt by Lindsay Buroker
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I just couldn't put this book down, and put off quite a bit of my work to simply complete it.

There is just one goal - to set up the portal. Jak and Jedora want to get help from the 'kindly' dragons to help save the terrene humans from slavery, King Uthari wants it to get a plant that would make him something of an immortal, and all the other kingdom rulers are out to get the portal...just 'because'. However, there is another set of people - the druids - who is out to destroy anyone who does set up the portal. For some as-yet-to-be-revealed-reason, the portal only ever responds to Jak, and its revelation of visions makes the mother-son duo a little wary of what they might be up against should the portal begin working again after ten thousand years. They get to find out.

I love how Buroker completes this arc.  However, there is no telling, with absolute accuracy, where this main plot is taking us -- and I am enjoying that! Buroker has several strands of threads that need to come together at some point or another, and they all point to so many more intrigues to come.

As always, Buroker does such a wonderful job with her characters. Even if they are up only for a few pages or less, they have so much character, that you remember them for a while yet. Every single one of them stands out from the pages as real people -- it doesn't matter if they are black or white or an in-between grey. The banter is amusing, though, the similarity of it sprinkled from the mouths of any character that matters, does make it obvious that this is simply Buroker having a good time.

I am left with so many questions that are to be answered. I'm really looking forward to reading Book 3!