Exiles
The Ilyon Chronicles #4
by Jaye L. Knight

My rating: 4 / 5
Genre: Christian fantasy

Spoiler notice: The following review will contain some spoilers for the previous book in the series, Samara’s Peril.

The resistance camp near Landale is growing all the time, and now the exiled rightful kind of Samara is part of the group. The rebels need more allies, so they travel to Dorland to try to enlist the help of the rest of the cretes and even the giants. Meanwhile, the heat is being turned up in both Landale and the capital, while more and more people turn to the one true God, Elôm, all the time.

It was nice to expand even further out in this book, seeing the homeland of the dragon-riding cretes and then meeting the giants. There is a lot of diplomacy and some more snatches of battle in this book. Some of my favorite parts involved Daniel, the son of the emperor, who has always been at odds with his father, but now there’s even more to separate them. There were some parts of the book that I was more interested in than others, and Kyrin is still a major character that I wish was more dynamic. In four books, she hasn’t really changed much, and she’s been pretty boring, overall. Jace annoyed me less in this book, though he did make me shake my head a few times.

Some major events happen in this book, and it ends with a promise of both danger and hope. With two books left in the series, I’m really looking forward to seeing how all of this plays out. My 15-year-old daughter continues to be a huge fan of this series, so it’s easy for me to recommend this book to older teens through adults (it’s not YA, but it’s very clean), fans of fiction with Christian elements, whether you’re really into fantasy or not.

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