Unbound by Michael R. Miller is the second book in a classic style fantasy series, which easily drew me in!

I absolutely love Holt and Ash, and was very happy to see their bond grow and stretch and become even more than it was.

I also enjoyed seeing the other main characters from different perspectives, and delve ever deeper into their thoughts. Be it a princess who's all of a sudden bound up in all the responsibilities, who has to adapt to her new life, or a villain who might have quite some humanity left on him after all. Or not? This made the whole story quite unpredictable, and I was surprised quite a few times along the way.

This book is quite a bit slower than book one, with less action, and instead more politics, world building and character development, but I liked it no less for that. In my eyes it's quite a good middle book, giving more meat to the overall world, and setting up ever more problems and mysteries to solve in the next one.

I would definitely highly recommend it to everyone who enjoys an epic fantasy that feels like one of the classics, but has a way more modern and quick style!