Naamah’s Blessing
Hardcover | Kindle
By Jacqueline Carey
Grand Central Publishing
Release date: June 29, 2011

Naamah’s Blessing is Jacqueline Carey‘s grand finale to the Naamah Trilogy, which are the companion books to her Kushiel’s Legacy series. That’s a total of nine books. Having not read any of the first eight books in Carey’s magnum opus, I expected to feel a bit lost, but the author does a good job of connecting all the previous dots through main character and narrator Moirin’s very convenient and near-constant reminiscing of the past.

Once I adjusted to Moirin’s annoying sing-song voice, I tucked in to a tale of great action and adventure in which we follow Moirin and her husband, Bao, as they journey across vast seas to Terre d’Ange, home of Moirin’s father and half of her ancestry. Moirin is following her Destiny, as guided by her diadh-anam, which is the “spark of the soul of the Maguin Dhonn,” or the Great Bear, which is the other half of Moirin’s ancestry inherited from her mother, who lives in Moirin’s place of birth called Alba.