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Reviewed by Asher Syed for Readers' Favorite
A Raven in the Storm: Gods of Tellus Book 1 by Alida Miranda-Wolff follows Lyanna Weatherly, forced into opposition against King Tellus’s siphoning of divine magic. Lyanna flees the Stormlands, hiding in the Sunlands under Lady Opis and Lady Selene Coronis. In Sol, Lyanna becomes an operative under Lord Cassius Coronis, aiding a resistance network, discovering that the crown is draining the Earth Mother through a channel to fuel expansionist war. As King Tellus announces new siphons and prepares for invasion, Lyanna coordinates to stop the extraction. When peaceful obstruction fails with a massacre, Cassius intervenes violently. Lyanna must decide whether or not to bind herself to the Storm God through a blood pact to destroy the siphoning channel.
A Raven in the Storm by Alida Miranda-Wolff is an absolutely brilliant and expansive fantasy, featuring an impressive pantheon of gods and a structured hierarchy. The incorporation of the Earth Mother’s depletion is a beautiful example of divine presence being treated as material and vulnerable, especially when compared to the Storm God answering devotion through blood and weather. The author breathes life into gorgeous landscapes, the standout to me being the August River flooding its banks as storm winds tear through the Witcher’s Woods, where she turns the terrain into an active force. The battle scenes rage, from explosive earthen arrows cutting through unarmed crowds to the channel’s destruction by wind, fire, and rising water. The author's clear understanding of mythology is indicated in the Raven itself, uniting myth and title, echoing the Norse traditions of Odin’s ravens as agents of power and memory. Overall, this is a great first book in the series, and I'm already knee-deep in book two, Rain Witch.
