I'm sure I've mentioned before how weird I can be with books sometimes. If I love a book, I either devour it as fast as I can or I can read a bit and then set it aside for months, then devour it when I finally pick it up again. I did that with the first book in this series and now I've done it again with the second.
I finally finished this tonight and I'm still feeling into the story, so I'll likely start the third soon.
The first book introduced us to the Guardians of Dawn, elemental spirits reborn into the bodies of teenage girls. We met Zhara, the Guardian of Fire. Ami is the Guardian of Wood and she's quite different than Zhara. I'm pretty sure she's autistic-coded, as she spends a lot of time thinking about how she does things so differently than others. She's othered herself based on how she thinks, how she handles feelings, being touched, and repeatedly says she has trouble understanding figurative language. She learns to be more comfortable with herself by the end, but I'm also sure she'd still think of herself as different. It's never taken in a bad way by anyone but herself. Zhara even describes it all as charming, which pleases Ami.
Ami and her father, once the court astronomer, ran away from Zhara's kingdom after Ami was outed as a magician. Her father's mind is described as broken, so he requires a lot of care. Ami is a scrivener, so she writes letters and things for people, reads, etc.
Ami meets Gaden, a character referred to as the Beast, quite early on. She's also described as very beautiful, so where Zhara was Cinderella, Ami is Belle.
I'm not going to get into the complexities of it all, but there's a lot of travel in this book. Ami and Gaden eventually team up with Zhara, Han and Sajah, and they try to find the Root of the World, which is where they think another demon portal is.
Yuli, my favorite, makes a few appearances in her spirit form. She's the Guardian of Wind we met in Zhara's book and her main power is astral travel.
Like Zhara's book, this one is also really good. I couldn't put it down when I just picked it back up again, so I definitely recommend this series.
