Your Path in Life is Not Always Set: ‘The Unspoken Name’ Review

Before I get into this review, I must thank Tor Books for sponsoring this review. I was immediately taken in when I read the synopsis of the book. A girl who knew her death was coming is saved by a powerful mage, and she becomes his loyal sword. A female hero and magic? Okay, you got me. Let’s see what this is about. Death Comes for Us All To start, let me give you a quick rundown of the story hopefully without too much spoiler; HOWEVER, I am going to make a spoiler warning here just in case. We meet our main character, Csorwe, mere weeks before she is scheduled to die. As the chosen bride to the god known as The Unspoken One, she will enter his shrine alone and be sacrificed to it, as generations of 14-year-old chosen brides have done before. However, when a mysterious older mage comes to the temple to seek an audience with the god, who speaks through Csorwe, things take a major turn. Csorwe had always been a bit fearful of dying and thought she had no real choice in the matter, but on the day of her death, she finds the mage, Belthandros Sethennai, waiting for her in the shrine. He gives her a choice: to die here or go with him and live. I’m sure you know which one she picks. This is where the real story begins.  Grabbing Life by the Sword Sethennai is on a quest to find an item known as the Reliquary of Pentravesse, and he turns Csorwe into his right-hand sword to look for the item. The book is interestingly divided into four main sections that contain the chapters. …