Deborah Obida's Reviews > Ghostwater

Buddy read with Snezana

Ghostwater is the fifth book in the Cradle series. What I love most about this series is the pace and character development, each book focuses on a different idea and this one is about Ghostwater. The fight scenes, magic system, dialogues, great depiction of friendship and amazing characters are some of my favorite things about this book.

Ghostwater is a pocket world created by Northstrider,(a monarch). The world was abandoned 50 years prior to this book, after the brief wake of the Phoenix, Ghostwater’s anchor is no longer solid and the world is said to collapse in a couple of months. The Skysworn were sent to investigate and what they saw is more than they expected.

“The difference between perceived strength and actual strength is smaller than you would believe”

This book also show more insight on the magic caste, the ones initially mentioned in the previous books are Copper, Iron, low gold, high gold, true gold, under lord, over lord and arch lord in ascending order. There was a few mention of Monarch and Sage, I know they are higher than the aforementioned ones but I don’t know which is higher, and now we have Heralds, another powerful magic caste, I don’t know where they fit yet, I hope I get a better explanation in the next book.

Moving on, I love this book as much as I do the other previous ones, the world building is beyond average, it’s awesome. Will Wight literally have a different world building for each book because each book is set in a different location. The book is written in third person multiple POV.

My favorite character remains Lindon, he remains true to his beliefs, he is humble, kind and courageous. He is brave but not arrogant.

Yerin is so cynical and realistic, I like that about her, it makes her friendship with Lindon all the better, they compliment each other.

Mercy Acura is the daughter of the Acura monarch, details on why she left her family is still vague but I like her already. She is such a good person.

There are lots of new characters in this, my favorite is Dross, a sentient construct, his opinion of everything is hilarious. Then there’s Kiel, he’s still sort of a mystery, can’t wait to read more about him in the next book.