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adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I ended up liking this book far more than I had anticipated. I thought it was going to be rather boring based on the first few chapters but I was happily proven wrong. I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
I really enjoyed the concept of the spirits and the queens. I love the ermine spirit that always comes to aid the protagonist.
The ending was absolutely thrilling and everything leading up to it set it up perfectly.
I really enjoyed the concept of the spirits and the queens. I love the ermine spirit that always comes to aid the protagonist.
The ending was absolutely thrilling and everything leading up to it set it up perfectly.
This book sucked me in right from the beginning. The rhyme at the beginning of the first chapter sets up everything perfectly.
Don't trust the fire, for it will burn you.
Don't trust the ice, for it will freeze you.
Don't trust the water, for it will drown you.
Don't trust the air, for it will choke you.
Don't trust the earth, for it will bury you.
Don't trust the trees, for they will rip you,
rend you, tear you, kill you dead.
It's a child's chant. Children chant it while skipping rope. When you trip on the rope, that's the spirit that will one day kill you. And that is how the story starts. With a six year old Daleina sneaking out of her house (which is in a tree - all the houses are, whole villages are built on branches of trees - how cool is that?!) to take part in the tradition of the jumping rope to the chant. Against her parents' permission.
By the end of the first chapter, the spirits have attacked Daleina's village, killing nearly everyone apart from Daleina and her family after she manages to save them. Up until this point she has not shown an affinity for controlling spirits. This attack and the horrible realisation that if she'd known about her abilities earlier she could have saved the village and it's villagers leads to Daleina deciding to go to the academy to train so that she could one day be queen and to prevent anything like this happening ever again. To protect her people.
There are so many things I loved about this book. I really rooted for the characters. Daleina isn't a typical main character for a YA Fantasy. She isn't perfect. She isn't amazing. She isn't the strongest. She isn't naturally gifted. She hasn't got 549367398 guys running after her and a romance that takes all the attention away from the plot. She gets to where she is by lots of hard work, never giving up and some help from her friends. She gets to where she is by acknowledging her weaknesses and working around them, coming up with different ways to get stuff done. I love that she has lots of friends who are girls. They support each other. They're happy for each other when they are successful. There might be a little bit of jealousy and bad feelings but these feelings aren't something they dwell on and let poison their friendships. Okay, they might not always be 100% nice to each other but I don't think any decision is made spitefully.
There is a little bit of romance but it never takes over the plot. And it's not with the other main character, Ven the disgraced champion. Ven is more of a father figure to Daleina. I like their relationship.
I like that being the queen isn't something you can inherit. You have to train. You have to become a candidate. Then you have to pass trials to become an heir. There must always be a queen. The only thing stopping the spirits from going wild and killing and destroying everyone and everything. Only the queen has the power to control every spirit, this is a power that is given to her at her coronation by the spirits themselves. It's complicated. The spirits both hate and need humans and humans both hate and need the spirits.
I never quite knew what was going to happen and the ending... wow. Was not expecting it. I don't want to ruin it but wow. I actually think it was kind of perfect? I can't wait to see what happens in the next book.
Don't trust the fire, for it will burn you.
Don't trust the ice, for it will freeze you.
Don't trust the water, for it will drown you.
Don't trust the air, for it will choke you.
Don't trust the earth, for it will bury you.
Don't trust the trees, for they will rip you,
rend you, tear you, kill you dead.
It's a child's chant. Children chant it while skipping rope. When you trip on the rope, that's the spirit that will one day kill you. And that is how the story starts. With a six year old Daleina sneaking out of her house (which is in a tree - all the houses are, whole villages are built on branches of trees - how cool is that?!) to take part in the tradition of the jumping rope to the chant. Against her parents' permission.
By the end of the first chapter, the spirits have attacked Daleina's village, killing nearly everyone apart from Daleina and her family after she manages to save them. Up until this point she has not shown an affinity for controlling spirits. This attack and the horrible realisation that if she'd known about her abilities earlier she could have saved the village and it's villagers leads to Daleina deciding to go to the academy to train so that she could one day be queen and to prevent anything like this happening ever again. To protect her people.
There are so many things I loved about this book. I really rooted for the characters. Daleina isn't a typical main character for a YA Fantasy. She isn't perfect. She isn't amazing. She isn't the strongest. She isn't naturally gifted. She hasn't got 549367398 guys running after her and a romance that takes all the attention away from the plot. She gets to where she is by lots of hard work, never giving up and some help from her friends. She gets to where she is by acknowledging her weaknesses and working around them, coming up with different ways to get stuff done. I love that she has lots of friends who are girls. They support each other. They're happy for each other when they are successful. There might be a little bit of jealousy and bad feelings but these feelings aren't something they dwell on and let poison their friendships. Okay, they might not always be 100% nice to each other but I don't think any decision is made spitefully.
There is a little bit of romance but it never takes over the plot. And it's not with the other main character, Ven the disgraced champion. Ven is more of a father figure to Daleina. I like their relationship.
I like that being the queen isn't something you can inherit. You have to train. You have to become a candidate. Then you have to pass trials to become an heir. There must always be a queen. The only thing stopping the spirits from going wild and killing and destroying everyone and everything. Only the queen has the power to control every spirit, this is a power that is given to her at her coronation by the spirits themselves. It's complicated. The spirits both hate and need humans and humans both hate and need the spirits.
I never quite knew what was going to happen and the ending... wow. Was not expecting it. I don't want to ruin it but wow. I actually think it was kind of perfect? I can't wait to see what happens in the next book.
I meant to at least say *something* about this amazing book, even if I didn’t take the time to give it a full review when I first finished it. Oops. I think it was because I finished it late at night and I was having a hard time staying awake. The book was good enough to deprive me of sleep, but I wasn’t about to stay up to write a crappy review that didn’t give this book the justice it deserves.
Anyway, I think you’ll like this book if you would enjoy high fantasy with a cool magic system, magical forests and treehouses that sound like something out of a kid’s fairytale, and dark, deadly spirits that are both necessary to life and likely to kill every citizen at any time.
There was also the good old fashioned school setting, which didn’t take up the whole book. There were also plenty of fun trials. This book was just trope-y enough to be sentimental while keeping each of those sections small enough that you never get bored in them.
The main character is pretty cool. In some ways she’s similar to a typical protagonist (doesn’t want to be in charge, not super ambitious or driven) but all of her motivations are well-fleshed-out and logical.
Although there is a romance, it’s small enough that I wouldn’t even consider it a romantic side plot. If you’re looking for romance, this is not the book for you. If you’re tired of reading romantic plots, you’ll be overjoyed with this one.
I mostly listened to the audiobook for this, although I own a physical copy of the book as well. I got my copy off ThriftBooks as a mass market paperback and would recommend doing something similar if you’re into that kind of thing. The audiobook was pretty average. At least, I wasn’t disappointed with it.
Anyway, I think you’ll like this book if you would enjoy high fantasy with a cool magic system, magical forests and treehouses that sound like something out of a kid’s fairytale, and dark, deadly spirits that are both necessary to life and likely to kill every citizen at any time.
There was also the good old fashioned school setting, which didn’t take up the whole book. There were also plenty of fun trials. This book was just trope-y enough to be sentimental while keeping each of those sections small enough that you never get bored in them.
The main character is pretty cool. In some ways she’s similar to a typical protagonist (doesn’t want to be in charge, not super ambitious or driven) but all of her motivations are well-fleshed-out and logical.
Although there is a romance, it’s small enough that I wouldn’t even consider it a romantic side plot. If you’re looking for romance, this is not the book for you. If you’re tired of reading romantic plots, you’ll be overjoyed with this one.
I mostly listened to the audiobook for this, although I own a physical copy of the book as well. I got my copy off ThriftBooks as a mass market paperback and would recommend doing something similar if you’re into that kind of thing. The audiobook was pretty average. At least, I wasn’t disappointed with it.
slow-paced
NOT A BAD START.
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I guess I must not have realized this was an adult fantasy? Which was totally fine, but the set-up was definitely different.
Starting out with the character at a young age, following her through an academy and then seeing what she does after can feel a bit long winded, and it did here. I don’t need to see every facet of the growing up phases, lets get into the action and move the plot from there.
I did find it to be a very easy listen (audiobook was great!). The world building made sense and I understood enough of the magic system to not feel lost as the pages turned. It’s an interesting set-up with evil forest spirits and the like, clearly something bigger is happening with them and I look forward to exploring that more.
While the character arc for Daleina is in progress, I did like where this book took her. Some of the other side characters like Ven grew on me too. What didn’t work was the romantic sub-plots. I’m fine with them being sub, but it felt haphazardly thrown together and when Daleina kissed someone I had to listen to it three times to make sure I figured out what was happening.
A good start to an older series, I do have plans to continue with the next book! The ending was absolutely wild and I didn’t mind the gruesomeness of it all.
Overall audience notes:
- Fantasy
- Language: some
- Romance: closed door
- Violence: high
- Trigger/Content Warnings: loss of loved ones, descriptive explanations of loss of life, very bloody/gory, battle themes
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I guess I must not have realized this was an adult fantasy? Which was totally fine, but the set-up was definitely different.
Starting out with the character at a young age, following her through an academy and then seeing what she does after can feel a bit long winded, and it did here. I don’t need to see every facet of the growing up phases, lets get into the action and move the plot from there.
I did find it to be a very easy listen (audiobook was great!). The world building made sense and I understood enough of the magic system to not feel lost as the pages turned. It’s an interesting set-up with evil forest spirits and the like, clearly something bigger is happening with them and I look forward to exploring that more.
While the character arc for Daleina is in progress, I did like where this book took her. Some of the other side characters like Ven grew on me too. What didn’t work was the romantic sub-plots. I’m fine with them being sub, but it felt haphazardly thrown together and when Daleina kissed someone I had to listen to it three times to make sure I figured out what was happening.
A good start to an older series, I do have plans to continue with the next book! The ending was absolutely wild and I didn’t mind the gruesomeness of it all.
Overall audience notes:
- Fantasy
- Language: some
- Romance: closed door
- Violence: high
- Trigger/Content Warnings: loss of loved ones, descriptive explanations of loss of life, very bloody/gory, battle themes
*Read for PopSugar's 2021 Reading Challenge: A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z”*
Ugh. Big time Mary Sue. Way more interested in the queen than hero.
Ugh. Big time Mary Sue. Way more interested in the queen than hero.
This was an excellent book and refreshing to read particularly if one has just consumed a series of same-y fantasy novels. The Queen of Blood manages to comfortably fill the role of a fantasy novel while exemplifying few of its tired cliches.
The world-building is unique and top-notch, as well as being integral to the plot. Daleina, our heroine, lives in a world populated by forests so huge that most of their cities are built in them. Everyone gets around by walking across bridges or sailing merrily around on ziplines. Its very immersive and fascinating. All of the trees are so large because the world is imbued with powerful elemental spirits that control earth, fire, water, air, and weirdly, ice and wood as well. These spirits are powerful, wild, and most fearful of all, inimical to humans. Driven almost completely by instinct, they either want to expand their elemental powers by growing trees etc or they want to murder any human around them. Durst eschews the traditional fantasy paths and tropes (no elves, dwarves, and men, but also no feudal-society-with-magic fantasy either). Instead, Durst creates a world that in no way resembles our own nor any part of our history (ala Brandan Sanderson) but it is still comprehensible from page 1. This is a difficult feat, but Durst handles it with ease, creating a world that is understandable in its function while still slowly expanding in its lore throughout the novel.
The plot does tend to lurch forward alarmingly like a car low on gas, occasionally jumping years ahead with no more ceremony than a new chapter. The prose style is somewhat choppy in consequence, with important events appearing and disappearing without ceremony. Durst occasionally does this with her characters as well. One person in particular gets put on a metaphorical bus early on in the plot and then never reappears except in a casual throwaway line near the end. Umm, Durst, if you want to get rid of a character, you can spend more time on it; you don't need to awkwardly cut them out of the plot in a single paragraph as if they are an actor whose contract has just been renegotiated.
The plot otherwise is very interesting and compelling, with Daleina in particular developing in interesting and unconventional ways. Rather than being the destined hero imbued with unprecedented power, Daleina is always under-powered and underestimated and must use her wits to survive in a hostile world. This is an underused dynamic that made for a unique character arc.
Another refreshing element is her likeable characters. Though it features a school for magic-users who all want to ascend to the coveted position of "queen," there are no cheating rivals or a pack of jealous alphas to defeat. Our hero, Daleina, must use her wits rather than her native talent to succeed in her task, but her relationship with her fellow students never becomes antagonistic. There were almost no "bad guys" in the plot at all; even the most ambitious or annoying characters are shown to have value as human beings. This is a refreshing outlook on humanity that you often do not see even in light-hearted fantasy, which this is most certainly not. Despite the positive outlook Durst has on her characters, the world is unforgiving and often dark, with many characters dying suddenly and sometimes painfully. Durst pulls no punches.
I felt like the ending I suppose it is a culmination of several themes and plot threads, so it isn't the worst way to end it, but it felt a tad manipulative to me. In addition to that annoyance, Daleina ended up *seriously I am going to spoil the ending for those of you who may still want to read this one day* .
Overall, this is a unique, well-written, and interesting work. I would recommend this to anyone interested in the fantasy genre. Durst has expanded the limits of fantasy tropes and settings, which is difficult to do in a genre littered with imaginary worlds. Durst may not stand with the best of the genre in terms of prose, but she can hold her head up among the giants in terms of imagination.
On the subject of multiple perspectives: I have seen many people do this poorly, and only a few who have done it without ruining aspects of their novel in the process, and even fewer who have actually done it in a way that improves their novel. Typically, authors who try to use multiple perspectives end up ruining their plot structure by awkwardly switching perspectives between chapters without having interesting things for both characters to do. Either that, or they leave a character at a point of maximum interest, like when they have just been ambushed by bandits, only to join another character in some mundane plot thread. This absolutely kills pacing and also ruins my mental map of the plot as well.
Cleverer authors avoid this, only switching perspectives at the conclusion of a plot thread when audience attention is waning rather than waxing, thus switching to a more interesting moment. Even then, though, often this doesn't lead to anything except keeping several plates spinning at once. It creates an interesting tension as we wait for the 2, 3, or 4, plot threads to converge as we know they must, and this is typically where books like this stumble a bit as they struggle to come up with a structure that works once all of their POV characters are interacting together.
Most authors benefit by being more strict with their writing and limiting themselves to one perspective. It is always tempting to want to show reactions and emotions of non-main characters, but generally the book benefits from sticking to one perspective (here I am talking about limited third person or first person, not omniscient third person.) The old adage "show, don't tell" applies well; it is always more intriguing for us to intuit another character's emotions based on previously understood facts, their facial expressions, and their own words. It makes the emotions more powerful and sparks the reader's imagination more than if an author simply jumps into a character's head to show us how they feel. This tension between trying to guess a character's reaction is the source of a good third of fanfiction (think of all the books written to try to capture Mr. Darcy's perspective of his wife's famous story) but none of the fanfiction works can really capture the fun of using deduction and empathy to understand a character's emotions.
Durst uses her multiple perspectives in a way I haven't seen before. I am not sure that it it elevates the story, but it certainly doesn't hurt it. She typically sticks with Daleina's perspective, sometimes for multiple chapters in a row, and jumps to Ven's perspective for about a third of the rest of the novel, mainly for reaction shots and world building and more information about the queen. Other characters (the headmistress, the queen, a random student) will get a chapter or two spread throughout, usually to show an important moment (this technique is used all the time in sci-fi space operas). The combination of these viewpoints is unique in my experience. Typically, when there are two main perspectives their on-page time is divided equally. Durst avoids this and instead allows her characters the time they need to advance the plot and no more. This is a better use of perspectives than most people achieve as Durst allows the plot and characters to drive her switches in viewpoint rather than a strict chapter-by-chapter rule. However, I am not sure that it couldn't have benefited more from a strict single perspective with us learning and deducing the elements that Durst gave to us using various characters' viewpoints. As I stated above, showing rather than telling makes for a greater impact on the reader, and us learning about deaths and character decisions at the same time as Daleina might have been better.
However, Durst definitely did a better job at this than many I have seen, and her style of switching perspectives is unique, so I'll give it a pass. She is very near top-tier in this regard, but she cannot touch the queen of multiple perspectives, [a:Hilari Bell|145129|Hilari Bell|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1296675577p2/145129.jpg]. Bell uses her perspective switches to enhance plot, character, and theme in all of her series, and if anyone is wanting to learn how to use this method to actually heighten the impact of their plots, go read her works.
The world-building is unique and top-notch, as well as being integral to the plot. Daleina, our heroine, lives in a world populated by forests so huge that most of their cities are built in them. Everyone gets around by walking across bridges or sailing merrily around on ziplines. Its very immersive and fascinating. All of the trees are so large because the world is imbued with powerful elemental spirits that control earth, fire, water, air, and weirdly, ice and wood as well. These spirits are powerful, wild, and most fearful of all, inimical to humans. Driven almost completely by instinct, they either want to expand their elemental powers by growing trees etc or they want to murder any human around them. Durst eschews the traditional fantasy paths and tropes (no elves, dwarves, and men, but also no feudal-society-with-magic fantasy either). Instead, Durst creates a world that in no way resembles our own nor any part of our history (ala Brandan Sanderson) but it is still comprehensible from page 1. This is a difficult feat, but Durst handles it with ease, creating a world that is understandable in its function while still slowly expanding in its lore throughout the novel.
The plot does tend to lurch forward alarmingly like a car low on gas, occasionally jumping years ahead with no more ceremony than a new chapter. The prose style is somewhat choppy in consequence, with important events appearing and disappearing without ceremony. Durst occasionally does this with her characters as well. One person in particular gets put on a metaphorical bus early on in the plot and then never reappears except in a casual throwaway line near the end. Umm, Durst, if you want to get rid of a character, you can spend more time on it; you don't need to awkwardly cut them out of the plot in a single paragraph as if they are an actor whose contract has just been renegotiated.
The plot otherwise is very interesting and compelling, with Daleina in particular developing in interesting and unconventional ways. Rather than being the destined hero imbued with unprecedented power, Daleina is always under-powered and underestimated and must use her wits to survive in a hostile world. This is an underused dynamic that made for a unique character arc.
Another refreshing element is her likeable characters. Though it features a school for magic-users who all want to ascend to the coveted position of "queen," there are no cheating rivals or a pack of jealous alphas to defeat. Our hero, Daleina, must use her wits rather than her native talent to succeed in her task, but her relationship with her fellow students never becomes antagonistic. There were almost no "bad guys" in the plot at all; even the most ambitious or annoying characters are shown to have value as human beings. This is a refreshing outlook on humanity that you often do not see even in light-hearted fantasy, which this is most certainly not. Despite the positive outlook Durst has on her characters, the world is unforgiving and often dark, with many characters dying suddenly and sometimes painfully. Durst pulls no punches.
I felt like the ending
Spoiler
came a little out of left field and *intensify spoiler warnings*Spoiler
ended up as just a random massacre of nearly every named character.Spoiler
winning basically by default, which felt anticlimactic for her character. I wanted her to win not because everyone else was dead but because she solved some problem from being the cleverest or most empathetic or something. Her own unique talents and charms, which everyone except Ven had constantly underestimated, ended up being as useless as most people thought her magical talents were. I wished Durst had had a more concrete reason for Daleina to be chosenOverall, this is a unique, well-written, and interesting work. I would recommend this to anyone interested in the fantasy genre. Durst has expanded the limits of fantasy tropes and settings, which is difficult to do in a genre littered with imaginary worlds. Durst may not stand with the best of the genre in terms of prose, but she can hold her head up among the giants in terms of imagination.
On the subject of multiple perspectives: I have seen many people do this poorly, and only a few who have done it without ruining aspects of their novel in the process, and even fewer who have actually done it in a way that improves their novel. Typically, authors who try to use multiple perspectives end up ruining their plot structure by awkwardly switching perspectives between chapters without having interesting things for both characters to do. Either that, or they leave a character at a point of maximum interest, like when they have just been ambushed by bandits, only to join another character in some mundane plot thread. This absolutely kills pacing and also ruins my mental map of the plot as well.
Cleverer authors avoid this, only switching perspectives at the conclusion of a plot thread when audience attention is waning rather than waxing, thus switching to a more interesting moment. Even then, though, often this doesn't lead to anything except keeping several plates spinning at once. It creates an interesting tension as we wait for the 2, 3, or 4, plot threads to converge as we know they must, and this is typically where books like this stumble a bit as they struggle to come up with a structure that works once all of their POV characters are interacting together.
Most authors benefit by being more strict with their writing and limiting themselves to one perspective. It is always tempting to want to show reactions and emotions of non-main characters, but generally the book benefits from sticking to one perspective (here I am talking about limited third person or first person, not omniscient third person.) The old adage "show, don't tell" applies well; it is always more intriguing for us to intuit another character's emotions based on previously understood facts, their facial expressions, and their own words. It makes the emotions more powerful and sparks the reader's imagination more than if an author simply jumps into a character's head to show us how they feel. This tension between trying to guess a character's reaction is the source of a good third of fanfiction (think of all the books written to try to capture Mr. Darcy's perspective of his wife's famous story) but none of the fanfiction works can really capture the fun of using deduction and empathy to understand a character's emotions.
Durst uses her multiple perspectives in a way I haven't seen before. I am not sure that it it elevates the story, but it certainly doesn't hurt it. She typically sticks with Daleina's perspective, sometimes for multiple chapters in a row, and jumps to Ven's perspective for about a third of the rest of the novel, mainly for reaction shots and world building and more information about the queen. Other characters (the headmistress, the queen, a random student) will get a chapter or two spread throughout, usually to show an important moment (this technique is used all the time in sci-fi space operas). The combination of these viewpoints is unique in my experience. Typically, when there are two main perspectives their on-page time is divided equally. Durst avoids this and instead allows her characters the time they need to advance the plot and no more. This is a better use of perspectives than most people achieve as Durst allows the plot and characters to drive her switches in viewpoint rather than a strict chapter-by-chapter rule. However, I am not sure that it couldn't have benefited more from a strict single perspective with us learning and deducing the elements that Durst gave to us using various characters' viewpoints. As I stated above, showing rather than telling makes for a greater impact on the reader, and us learning about deaths and character decisions at the same time as Daleina might have been better.
However, Durst definitely did a better job at this than many I have seen, and her style of switching perspectives is unique, so I'll give it a pass. She is very near top-tier in this regard, but she cannot touch the queen of multiple perspectives, [a:Hilari Bell|145129|Hilari Bell|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1296675577p2/145129.jpg]. Bell uses her perspective switches to enhance plot, character, and theme in all of her series, and if anyone is wanting to learn how to use this method to actually heighten the impact of their plots, go read her works.
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Here's the thing: this book is the start of a series that has the potential to be really good and/or interesting, but this first volume is SO formulaic that I'm honestly not sure! The world-building is cool--lands are controlled by a queen who has power over spirits who otherwise would destroy humans, and girls with the affinity to control spirits are trained as heirs. Our protagonist is from a village that was completely decimated, and she goes through the usual training/trials, etc, to try and prove herself worthy of being an heir. And there's also a whole thing with an exiled champion/former lover of the queen's. I mean, the writing is fine and the characters are great, but the plot is like cliche-o-rama, so majorly predictable. I liked that sex was treated matter-of-factly (and happened off-screen) and am intrigued by the whole sort-of-matriarchal society, and if the next book focuses on the political stuff, I might read it, but this is like . . . just a good example of the usual Hunger-Games-y fantasy book that I have read a million times lately. B.
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A review copy was provided by the publisher. This book will be released in September.
Here's the thing: this book is the start of a series that has the potential to be really good and/or interesting, but this first volume is SO formulaic that I'm honestly not sure! The world-building is cool--lands are controlled by a queen who has power over spirits who otherwise would destroy humans, and girls with the affinity to control spirits are trained as heirs. Our protagonist is from a village that was completely decimated, and she goes through the usual training/trials, etc, to try and prove herself worthy of being an heir. And there's also a whole thing with an exiled champion/former lover of the queen's. I mean, the writing is fine and the characters are great, but the plot is like cliche-o-rama, so majorly predictable. I liked that sex was treated matter-of-factly (and happened off-screen) and am intrigued by the whole sort-of-matriarchal society, and if the next book focuses on the political stuff, I might read it, but this is like . . . just a good example of the usual Hunger-Games-y fantasy book that I have read a million times lately. B.
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A review copy was provided by the publisher. This book will be released in September.
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:
Yes
adventurous
dark
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes