If on the first book my main concern was the story, in this second one I’ve really started to care about words.

The story is, perhaps, more characterized by knowing to wait and not to act than by the frenetic action in which, many times, the characters of the first part were involved. And so it’s also a book of sensations, of direct contact and interaction with Nature, what allowed me to create some descriptions that I particularly enjoyed to write. Maybe because it’s in those parts that words can flow freely, the rhythm becomes more melodic and beauty is a bit more truly.

Besides, once the plot takes place through several years, I was able to explore how those Peoples live, their everyday life and, therefore, what that World really is. There are other interests, other concerns apart from the threat that lays over those lands. And that’s when we begin to realize how different, and yet similar, Elves, Fairies and Humans can be.

In a certain way, it’s a reflective book, in which both characters and story work as some kind of link between the beginning and the end of the trilogy. Some aspects of the first book are developed and explained. On the other hand, new questions and elements are introduced, slightly mentioned, but never explored. Actually, it’s the conclusion of the story that’s being prepared. Everything needed is there, all the clues have been presented, but only the characters can unleash them.