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Carissa Broadbent’s ability to create badass female leads is impeccable. I loved the character development in this book so much and I’m excited to see where these characters go next.

I mean, Nura? I loved how confusing this character was and I’m so excited to see what else she has up her sleeves (besides daggers). I can’t wait to learn more about Sammerin as well, his magic is so damn cool. The magic system in the whole book is amazing! I love how visceral a lot of it is, how ugly and dark it gets. Broadbent takes a conventional and easily understandable magic system and turns it on its head. It’s awesome. And gross. And I loved it. The romance was convincing, but I once again enjoyed how Broadbent chose to deliver romance without this ever feeling like a romance novel (I feel the same about The Serpent and the Wings of Night). This wasn’t a story about love, it was about a badass heroine getting revenge, getting angry, and doing what she set out to do.

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

i thoroughly enjoyed the depth of the characters. how they all had their little quirks e.g. max being ticklish. i especially liked the depth of reshaye and how at some points i felt sorry for this virus. instead of being wise and controlled, it was also driven by very human emotions and fears that felt very real, but then it would do the most horrific thing. i love tisaanah and her quiet confidence and her brute force. it was very refreshing to see her gain skills from hardwork, something i appreciated in throne of glass when i read it. i'm intrigued to learn more about the secondary characters, especially serel and sammarin. AND MOTH

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book was a wild ride from start to finish!! Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent is a book that I would recommend to romance readers that want to delve into fantasy. While I would categorize this book as a 'romantasy', the fantasy bit is not at all hard to follow. The book reads fairly fast, and at no point was I lost or did I get bored with the exposition.

Tissanah is a character that is unlike any character I've read from before. She starts off the story escaping from her life as a life a slave and goes to a country where she believes that she can get the help to free the rest of Threll (the country where she's from) from slave owners. Tissanah doesn't speak the language of the new country very well and the book shows that. I think that the author did a really good job of showing that Tissanah didn't know how to fluently speak the language without making her seem stupid. There was a good balance of Tissanah learning magic and how to control her abilities and also Tissanah learning how to speak and read in the language of the country she's living in now. I also loved her single-mindedness in getting help for her people. At the beginning of the story, Tissanah has a single goal and she does whatever she can in order to complete that goal. A lot of times, in fantasy series like this, the main character has a goal and it gets waylaid into the main character doing something different. That didn't happen here and I couldn't be more glad.

Tissanah suffered for the majority of her young adult life and it does show with her interactions and mannerisms. But while she has suffered, she doesn't let her suffering stop her from living her life.

The pacing of the book was well-done. It was a bit long, being over 500 pages, but to be fair I think in order to correctly show what needed to be shown to understand the book it needed to be that long. Broadbent did an excellent job in managing when to show training and when to skip ahead. She did this in multiple factors for the book: the magic training, Max and Tissanah's bonding, Tissanah learning more of the language. Kudos to her for doing what a lot of authors fail at doing.

The relationship between Max and Tissanah was super refreshing. I haven't really read one like theirs in a long time and I almost don't know how to explain it. They communicate, they were friends before they became a couple, there's a lot of tension, etc. They're one of my favorite relationships I've read in forever and are one of my top ships at the moment.

Could this book have been spicier? Yes. Did it need to be spicier? No. Though there was one part near the end that my friend warned me about with his "second eyelid" opening and I was like oh... snake?? LOL. My friend was weirded out but I just found it funny and then crazy. I feel bad for Rashaye, but it frustrates me that they're not willing to accept help or care from Tissanah when she's willing to give it. It's so prepared to be betrayed or hurt by other people that it's not willing to give her the chance to make him (it??) feel better so they can work together. But that's just my opinion.

I completely recommend this book for any who would like to try it!! It does have some adult themes, so be careful with those. Happy Reading!!

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