Pathfinder's Way: Volume 1 (The Broken Lands)

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I enjoyed all the weirdness of the beasts and the sinister feeling about the Highlands To me this was the best part of the book. Too bad that so much of it took place in the lowlands. For Scotland, 2011 data is shown (update coming soon, the Scottish census was delayed by a year unlike the rest of the UK). I enjoyed all the weirdness of the beasts and the sinister feeling about the Highlands. To me this was the best part of the book that really stood out from other fantasy adventures I mean why does he even want the beast infested Lowlands anyway!? How many clans can there possibly be considering the settlements are so few and far between that it seems like there is plenty of land to be had anyways. Shea is an outcast in the village where she works. Nobody trusts her and nobody listens to her, even when she explains why she is right (because it's kind of her job to know these things). It makes for a frustrating and depressing life. That is until she saves a mysterious man from a death sentence and then has to escape from him because he decides that he wants to keep her. Of course (no surprise here), she ends up in his presence again some months later, but this is where the surprising part began for me. I thought that this book would be more about adapting to life with the barbarians and discovering that they are not as bad as she thought they were and blablabla... But it is more about survival through cleverness and finding your path where you least expect it. Shea will not just sit down and let people tell her how to live her life. She fights for her freedom and she does what she wants because she can.

The point was that she was right, and they were wrong. If they’d listened, everybody would still be alive. They didn’t, so they were dead. Not her problem. She’d done her job.” Fallon is just as good of a reason to love this book. He's a warlord and head of his clan. He is also very smart and cunning. He's trying to find a better way for his and the other clans to co-exist. Not everyone wants that change and attempts on his life has proven that. What I really loved about Fallon was that he is pre He closed with her, bearing down with his blade until her arms were shaking with the strain. His face was close to hers as their match became a test of strength. “Your stupidity is going to get everyone killed.” I started this book thinking it will be a high fantasy novel, but instead I've read a post-apocalyptic one!This is NOT COOL, NOT SEXY, and NOT ROMANTIC. It's just disgusting and horrifying. And he does not repent of any of it. But somehow, in the end, our heroine, who is normally smart and capable and awesome, loses all her senses and decides he's the guy for her. ARGH!!! BARF, BARF, BARF.

Zrakovi slammed his hand down on the table. “I won’t have my judgment questioned by a slip of a girl barely past her majority.” There are about a million other things I love about Shea that I could list forever. Unfortunately, my fingers can’t take that much typing. As far as I know, there are only 3 books in the series. It's good to know that because the romance part of this was very slow. So slow that the hero and heroine weren't even in the same vicinity for some of this book. For some of the other part they were...well let me just say, they might as well have not been in the same vicinity. I'm vague only because I don't want to give away all Shae's secrets.

I swear I have keyword tags out there for magic words like "warlord" and "enemies-turned-lovers," so when Pathfinder's Way hit both those keywords and was likened to Warprize I was like: That was pretty much another way to say kidnapping. There wasn’t a lot of places a relationship could go from there. When she escapes from him, he finds her even more intriguing and then sets out to have his whole army on the lookout for her. Months pass and he is still obsessed with her, determined to keep her once he finds her again. I was expecting some kind of magic, but there's absolutely no magic abilities here! Instead we have a young (not so much since she's 29) woman with a very specialized set of skills. AHhhh I haven't been this invested in a book in so long!!! The world T.A. created is wow, just spectacular.🤯 In this world, it's broken up into the Lowlands & Highlands. There wasn't as much information on the Highlands since most of the book took place in the Lowlands, but hopefully more will be revealed about that area in the next book....?