This is the last book of the Queens of Renthia, and features three queens- Daleina, Naelin and Merecot. Merecot takes the rather bold step of kidnapping Naelin’s children in order to enlist her help. It turns out there are wild spirits in Merecot’s kingdom of Semo that Merecot can only barely control.
The Sorrow in the title comes from Naelin’s reaction to the taking of the children. That part was a little overblown. It got better once Naelin agrees to go to Semo – it’s interesting to see another land, and you end up getting the back story of why the spirits are the way they are. There’s also a quick interlude that introduces the three queens of the other kingdoms in Renthia, so I suppose the author is leaving the window open to other stories in this world.
The book packed a lot into it – it wasn’t bad, but I almost feel like it could have been better developed, or split into several stories to do justice to everything that she tried to cover.
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