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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
I loved this. So much. Bisexuals, blood magic, dragons. What more could you ask for??
In short this is me declaring my love for Audrey Coulthurst and promising to read everything she writes from here on out.
In short this is me declaring my love for Audrey Coulthurst and promising to read everything she writes from here on out.
the plot was a little weird but my weakness is a good friends to lovers arc sooo
asra deserves the world but the world doesn't deserve asra
Wow, I loved this. This book had so much potential and it FUCKING DELIVERED. HOLY SHIT.
I loved Of Fire and Stars, but that book had some weak spots in its plot and world building. But Audrey has already grown so much in these areas, because these elements were vastly improved in this book.
She is so great at developing relationships, otp material, every time. The main character is bisexual and I love her. Her love interest is a soft boy and together they're just so PURE.
I loved Of Fire and Stars, but that book had some weak spots in its plot and world building. But Audrey has already grown so much in these areas, because these elements were vastly improved in this book.
She is so great at developing relationships, otp material, every time. The main character is bisexual and I love her. Her love interest is a soft boy and together they're just so PURE.
Inkmistress is the prequel to Of Fire and Stars. It follows a young woman by the name is Asra, she is a demigod and believes her father is the God of Wind. She has been raised as a herbalist and a healer in a mountain cave with an elderly woman. Asra hides the fact that she a blood scribe, meaning she can write the future with her blood, from the woman she loves, a villager by the name of Invasya, or Ina for short. When Asra is at risk of losing the girl she loves, she uses her power to write a future for the two of them but it never worked out the way she planned. After a tragedy strikes their village, Ina and Asra’s stories break apart, while they still merge from time to time, it never as lovers like they once were. Asra ventures out of her cave and ends up traveling the kingdom she has lived in and meets a boy by the name of Hal who helps her piece together her broken heart left by Ina and the events that drove them apart.
I really feel like the story picks up when Asra meets up with Hal. While I loved Asra and her feelings for Ina, I always had an off feeling about Ina and felt horrible for Asra after things ended the way they did. The angst between Asra and Ina made my heart hurt because I wanted Asra to be happy! Then she met Hal and was followed by more angst and hurt.
I gave this book five stars because while there were some predictive spots, I fell in love with Asra and her determination to fix the havoc she caused. While it didn’t end the way she wanted, it ended in a way that kept everyone together and hopefully happy. Now after reading Inkmistress, I want to reread Of Fire and Stars to see how it fit. It also makes me excited to see where the series will take us with Of Ice and Shadows!
I really feel like the story picks up when Asra meets up with Hal. While I loved Asra and her feelings for Ina, I always had an off feeling about Ina and felt horrible for Asra after things ended the way they did. The angst between Asra and Ina made my heart hurt because I wanted Asra to be happy! Then she met Hal and was followed by more angst and hurt.
I gave this book five stars because while there were some predictive spots, I fell in love with Asra and her determination to fix the havoc she caused. While it didn’t end the way she wanted, it ended in a way that kept everyone together and hopefully happy. Now after reading Inkmistress, I want to reread Of Fire and Stars to see how it fit. It also makes me excited to see where the series will take us with Of Ice and Shadows!
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
2.5 rounded up
This was fun enough, but at some moments it felt flat or slow. Some segments could have been removed entirely imo.
I had heard this was sapphic and was kinda bummed when the main sapphic couple became enemies almost immediately... Ina highkey sucked.
Hal and Asra were cute.
This was fun enough, but at some moments it felt flat or slow. Some segments could have been removed entirely imo.
I had heard this was sapphic and was kinda bummed when the main sapphic couple became enemies almost immediately... Ina highkey sucked.
Hal and Asra were cute.
This is my favorite series, now, and though I rarely re-read books, I know I will with the Inkmistress and Fire and Stars series. It brings me joy and stress and all the best parts of reading.
What I love about Audrey Coulthurst is that her books manage to be soothingly predictable while having unexpected (at least to me) plot twists. How I imagine the book ending from the beginning, is, in one way, correct, but also wildly incorrect. Yes, there is a happy ending and magic and true love - but not where or when or who I thought it would be. The last 2 chapters, the glorious fight scene between Ina (THE DRAGON QUEEN BTW IN THE REST OF THE SERIES) was gory and had me all curled up in my sheets trying not to get covered in chimera blood. I want to relive the first time I read the books, to feel that magic I read about once more - to see happy, healthy, lesbian love again.
I am in love with this series. I want there to be a show or movie so, so, so badly... Where is my Netflix special with Adelaide Kane as Denna, Gillian Anderson as Ina, and Amandla Stenburg as Mare? I BEG YOU, NETFLIX, PLEASE!
What I love about Audrey Coulthurst is that her books manage to be soothingly predictable while having unexpected (at least to me) plot twists. How I imagine the book ending from the beginning, is, in one way, correct, but also wildly incorrect. Yes, there is a happy ending and magic and true love - but not where or when or who I thought it would be. The last 2 chapters, the glorious fight scene between Ina (THE DRAGON QUEEN BTW IN THE REST OF THE SERIES) was gory and had me all curled up in my sheets trying not to get covered in chimera blood. I want to relive the first time I read the books, to feel that magic I read about once more - to see happy, healthy, lesbian love again.
I am in love with this series. I want there to be a show or movie so, so, so badly... Where is my Netflix special with Adelaide Kane as Denna, Gillian Anderson as Ina, and Amandla Stenburg as Mare? I BEG YOU, NETFLIX, PLEASE!
The story follows Asra, a demigod who has lived her whole life isolated on the mountains of Amalska, a village she tends to as a healer and herbalist. She has a dangerous gift that she's always kept a secret: the ability to dictate the future by writing with her blood.
After a hard winter, Ina, the girl she loves, comes baring bad news from the village. Bandits threaten to destroy it, and Ina, who is to be an elder, begs Asra for help in finding her manifest—the animal she'll be able to turn to as she becomes an adult. Asra uses her gift to help her, but it doesn't turn out as she expected. The bandits destroy the village and Ina, without knowing it was Asra's fault takes a dragon as her manifest and swears revenge on the king for not helping Amalska.
Asra follows her across the kingdom to try to stop her and finds out more than one truth about her life, love and her true heritage. She learns the secrets of her blood magic and meets people along the way who will not always stand by her side without anything in return.
I liked the character development of Asra and Ina, who by the end of the book are different people from the beginning, and you can tell they've grown up shaped by the things they've lived on their journey.
I also liked that the story is in the same universe as Of Fire and Stars, and even though it's not a prequel and the characters are entirely different, it helps you learn more about the kingdom of Zumorda, their customs and their roots. It helped me understand better some things and I'm sure some of them will reflect on Of Ice and Shadows.
After a hard winter, Ina, the girl she loves, comes baring bad news from the village. Bandits threaten to destroy it, and Ina, who is to be an elder, begs Asra for help in finding her manifest—the animal she'll be able to turn to as she becomes an adult. Asra uses her gift to help her, but it doesn't turn out as she expected. The bandits destroy the village and Ina, without knowing it was Asra's fault takes a dragon as her manifest and swears revenge on the king for not helping Amalska.
Asra follows her across the kingdom to try to stop her and finds out more than one truth about her life, love and her true heritage. She learns the secrets of her blood magic and meets people along the way who will not always stand by her side without anything in return.
I liked the character development of Asra and Ina, who by the end of the book are different people from the beginning, and you can tell they've grown up shaped by the things they've lived on their journey.
I also liked that the story is in the same universe as Of Fire and Stars, and even though it's not a prequel and the characters are entirely different, it helps you learn more about the kingdom of Zumorda, their customs and their roots. It helped me understand better some things and I'm sure some of them will reflect on Of Ice and Shadows.
adventurous
slow-paced