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A Trial of Sorcerers by Elise Kova
5.0
◦ I've received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review ◦
A trial of sorceress is a story about Eira - an 18yo girl with ice in her veins and fire in her heart. She's always been in the shadows of her brother, guarded and watched and carefully managed so the incident from 3 years ago when she froze half the tower and a person died - to never repeat again.
Struggling with her everyday life, with the voices she hears - Eira sees an opportunity to prove herself during the Tournament of Five Kingdoms, a trial of sorceress where the best from 4 groups: Windwalkers; Firebearers; Groundbreakers, and Watterunners need to prove their skills and 1 of each nation gets to go to Meru and compete further.
While she is eager to prove herself and show that she is capable of finishing the trials she is also facing a lot of blockages because everyone she loves is against it. Her parents, her brother, her uncle tells her to drop from the Trials and let her brother shine, he deserves that - but no one thinks about what she wants, or what she deserves, so she proves to them how capable she is and does the opposite of their advice.
I can say I got a little bit affected by the way Eira was seen by her family. No doubt they loved her, but I felt like they treated her like an outcast - the girl who murdered someone following her everywhere. 3 years ago, she declared her feelings for the first time to Adam the guy she fell in love with, just for him to mock and play a trap on her. That shattered her, broken her heart and trust, and made her wish to never feel again anything and so in her sorrow, she lost control of her power and froze half of the tower and someone has passed away because of it. But what everyone forgets to look at is how hurt she was on that night, everyone was focused on the accident and NOT on her which really made me question how much they actually loved her.
Her life takes a complicated turn during the Trials, she finds out deep secrets her family has been hiding. Her brother turns against her because she won’t back down from the trials and all she’s left is an odd alliance with the Elfin Ambassador of Meru, her best friend Alyss, and the strange guard of the Elfin’s Ambassador – Deneya who has her own agenda, or so it seems.
I can’t give all the deeds about the book since it's a new release, but the story feels so complicated which makes it so appealing to me because I love complicated things. I love the books that gives you breadcrumbs and lures you in and then BAM you’re knocked in the head and you don’t know what’s happening anymore. I LIVE for these moments! The Elfin Ambassador is so sweet and gentle to her and he is giving you the feeling he is hiding something, that behind his friendliness and flirting he has other intentions, dark and cruel intentions. And oh my god, how right I was. I didn’t see that coming, I knew there is something weird with him, his secrets, him being so sneaky. He was exactly like a spider creating his web around her, blinding her, luring her in until he finished his job.
I don’t think there was something that I didn’t like to be honest. The book has been really amazing, the story, the plot twist everything I’ve enjoyed fully and I can’t wait for the next book!
What I wasn’t expected was the connection between her and Cullen (not the vampire tho). Even tho at first their relationship was a hate-hate relationship towards the end of the book their relationship changed, and everything they thought of each other has switched to 90 degrees and I can’t wait to see how their relationship will develop from now on because they legit gave me goosebumps whenever they were close to each other.
This is the 1st installment of “A Trial of Sorcerers” and the way the book ended makes me wait for the 2nd book with a lot of curiosity and excitement! There is so much more this story has to offer and I can’t wait to see the next adventure Eira, Alyss and Cullen are going into. This is a Sword & Sorcery and coming of age book and I’ve legit run through the pages but at the same time, I didn’t want it to end. Plenty of moments that make you hold your breath to not miss any single thing, the way things are described and told makes the story develop like a movie behind your eyes. An amazing story to stay up at night and read it.
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A trial of sorceress is a story about Eira - an 18yo girl with ice in her veins and fire in her heart. She's always been in the shadows of her brother, guarded and watched and carefully managed so the incident from 3 years ago when she froze half the tower and a person died - to never repeat again.
Struggling with her everyday life, with the voices she hears - Eira sees an opportunity to prove herself during the Tournament of Five Kingdoms, a trial of sorceress where the best from 4 groups: Windwalkers; Firebearers; Groundbreakers, and Watterunners need to prove their skills and 1 of each nation gets to go to Meru and compete further.
While she is eager to prove herself and show that she is capable of finishing the trials she is also facing a lot of blockages because everyone she loves is against it. Her parents, her brother, her uncle tells her to drop from the Trials and let her brother shine, he deserves that - but no one thinks about what she wants, or what she deserves, so she proves to them how capable she is and does the opposite of their advice.
I can say I got a little bit affected by the way Eira was seen by her family. No doubt they loved her, but I felt like they treated her like an outcast - the girl who murdered someone following her everywhere. 3 years ago, she declared her feelings for the first time to Adam the guy she fell in love with, just for him to mock and play a trap on her. That shattered her, broken her heart and trust, and made her wish to never feel again anything and so in her sorrow, she lost control of her power and froze half of the tower and someone has passed away because of it. But what everyone forgets to look at is how hurt she was on that night, everyone was focused on the accident and NOT on her which really made me question how much they actually loved her.
Her life takes a complicated turn during the Trials, she finds out deep secrets her family has been hiding. Her brother turns against her because she won’t back down from the trials and all she’s left is an odd alliance with the Elfin Ambassador of Meru, her best friend Alyss, and the strange guard of the Elfin’s Ambassador – Deneya who has her own agenda, or so it seems.
I can’t give all the deeds about the book since it's a new release, but the story feels so complicated which makes it so appealing to me because I love complicated things. I love the books that gives you breadcrumbs and lures you in and then BAM you’re knocked in the head and you don’t know what’s happening anymore. I LIVE for these moments! The Elfin Ambassador is so sweet and gentle to her and he is giving you the feeling he is hiding something, that behind his friendliness and flirting he has other intentions, dark and cruel intentions. And oh my god, how right I was. I didn’t see that coming, I knew there is something weird with him, his secrets, him being so sneaky. He was exactly like a spider creating his web around her, blinding her, luring her in until he finished his job.
I don’t think there was something that I didn’t like to be honest. The book has been really amazing, the story, the plot twist everything I’ve enjoyed fully and I can’t wait for the next book!
What I wasn’t expected was the connection between her and Cullen (not the vampire tho). Even tho at first their relationship was a hate-hate relationship towards the end of the book their relationship changed, and everything they thought of each other has switched to 90 degrees and I can’t wait to see how their relationship will develop from now on because they legit gave me goosebumps whenever they were close to each other.
This is the 1st installment of “A Trial of Sorcerers” and the way the book ended makes me wait for the 2nd book with a lot of curiosity and excitement! There is so much more this story has to offer and I can’t wait to see the next adventure Eira, Alyss and Cullen are going into. This is a Sword & Sorcery and coming of age book and I’ve legit run through the pages but at the same time, I didn’t want it to end. Plenty of moments that make you hold your breath to not miss any single thing, the way things are described and told makes the story develop like a movie behind your eyes. An amazing story to stay up at night and read it.
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