Mirroring her journey is Will Iris who initially seems keen to help Cathy and keen for her hand in marriage but as the books progressed it becomes clear his loyalty to family and power means he will use any means necessary to get what he wants.
Cathy initially just wants to run away but finding out more about the world and how it's run with sinister agencies and Fae Lords who control all ruling families Cathy becomes a secret campaigner and working to change the system from the inside to ultimately an active campaigner for its destruction. This use of fantasy to explore sexism is a running theme of the books. In a land of magic a woman can be easily silenced if she's a problem.
Equality is a foreign concept as is consent, feminism and resistance. The Nether is a land that looks like Victorian England but with magical twists of spells, charms and most importantly of all a patriarchal system that firmly placed men at the top of everything and sees women as property to look after households and create children. This sequence of five books is now firmly one of my favourite fantasy series and it's great to see the novels end with a strong and heartfelt conclusion.īut oh furry reviewer what is The Split Worlds sequence I hear you cry? The story began in Between Two Thorns and we meet Cathy Papaver living life in modern Manchester but this is swiftly disrupted by her brother kidnapping her to take her back to the magical parallel world of the Nether to be married against her will into one of the other ruling families. As the Arbiter and his partner face the ugly side of their responsibilities to Rupert, they begin to question where their loyalties should truly lie.Īmidst death, deceit, and the fight for freedom, friendships are tested, families are destroyed, and heroes are forged as the battle to control the Split Worlds rages to its climatic conclusion.Įmma Newman has rightly applauded for her SF novels Planetfall and After Atlas (review of which is a coming) but All Good Things is the final part to her Split Worlds series. He orders Max and his gargoyle to help him, pulling them away from protecting innocents. Rupert, the last sorcerer of Albion, is obsessed with finding and destroying her. But can she and Sam navigate Beatrice’s plans for the future without becoming two more of her victims?Īnd Beatrice, a self-taught and powerful killer, is not without her enemies.
When the strange sorceress Beatrice offers her a chance to earn true freedom by joining the quest Sam has been bound to, Cathy agrees.
To keep his position―and survive―he needs to get her back, whatever the cost.Ĭathy has finally escaped the Nether, but hates that she must rely so heavily on Sam’s protection. His wife, Cathy, has left him, a fact that will destroy him if it becomes public. As the Iris family consolidates their hold on society within the secret world of the Nether, William Iris finds himself more powerful and yet more vulnerable than ever.
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