The Licanius Trilogy

Cory’s perspective

What hooked me about The Licanius Trilogy was that it felt different from the fantasy I was used to.

It has an almost sci-fi feel mixed into the fantasy, and I really liked that.

Davian was probably the character who kept the story grounded for me. I also liked his relationship with Asha and the way the story split the characters into different places and different parts of the story.

Then you add the time travel and everything starts getting much more complicated.

It definitely gets confusing sometimes.

But it stayed enjoyable because even when I wasn’t completely sure what was going on, the story would eventually come back around and make things click.

The first book hooked me immediately.

The second book gets more complicated, and there were definitely moments where I had to trust that the story was going somewhere.

Then the third book brought everything together.

The ending worked for me because it made the whole trilogy feel like I had read it for a reason.

It didn’t just stop and leave me mad that I had spent three books following this puzzle.

It put the pieces together.

That payoff actually made the earlier books feel better in hindsight.

Who I’d recommend it to

I’d recommend it to readers who like:

• Brandon Sanderson-type fantasy
• Patrick Rothfuss-type fantasy
• science fiction mixed with fantasy
• time travel
• complicated plots
• mysteries that eventually come back around
• stories where earlier details matter later

If you want an extremely simple story, this may feel overloaded sometimes.

Reading recommendation

I would read all three fairly close together.

You can take a break, but I would not make it a long one.

Details from the first two books matter later, and it would be easy to forget some of them before the third book starts pulling everything together.

This trilogy works best read straight through.

Read in publication order. Avoid summaries of the later books.