Sifa, Oracle and mother to Cisi, Eijeh and Akos, has a more prominent part in this book and we find out what her role in the lives of Cyra and Akos truly was. For example, Cisi, Akos’s sister whose currentgift, we learn, is a double-edged sword and we see her transform from a secondary character into a more influential one. In fact, I actually found it to be helpful because there is a continuity which gives the reader a better understanding about the events that were happening and how each individual character was influenced or affected by these events.Ĭharacters which played a minor role in the first book are further introduced to the story and we learn more about them. One would think that having all of the different points of view, switching from one character to another would be confusing, but it really isn’t. The second point of view belongs to Eijeh, Akos’s brother, who was chosen by fate to be an Oracle, like his mother and through his point of view we’re able to see the effects that were left upon him as a result of being tortured by Ryzek in Carve the Mark and how or if he deals with it.

In Carve the Mark, the story is told from Cyra and Akos’s point of view, but in The Fates Divide, author Veronica Roth has provided the readers with an additional two points of view: The first being that of Cisi, Akos’s sister, whose currentgift allows her to influence the emotions or moods of those around her. On the contrary, more questions arise, especially after the revelation made to Cyra by Ryzek before leaving Thuvhe and the joining of Akos’s family in this journey, his mother Sifa (an Oracle), his older sister Cisi, and his older brother Eijeh, who was kidnapped by Ryzek’s soldier in the first book of the duology. But being aboard the ship doesn’t mean they have found peace. When we last left Cyra and Akos in Carve the Mark, they were on the run, having escaped their nation-planet after having a type of coup against Cyra’s tyrant brother, Ryzek Noavek (leader of the Shotet) and rescuing Akos’s brother Eijeh, on a renegade ship. In a stunning twist, the two will discover how fate defines their lives in ways most unexpected. For Cyra, that could mean taking the life of the man who may – or may not-be her father.

And when Cyra’s father, Lazmet Noavek – a soulless tyrant, thought to be dead – reclaims the Shotet throne, Akos believes his end is closer than ever.Īs Lazmet ignites a barbaric war, Cyra and Akos are desperate to stop him at any cost. Akos is in love with Cyra, in spite of his fate: He will die in service to Cyra’s family. The fates, once determined, are inescapable. The lives of Cyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth are ruled by their fates, spoken by the oracles at birth.

The fates divide