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A review by bellebookcorner
Frozen Hearts and Death Magic by Day Leitao
4.0
"Love is a strange, wild thing, isn't it ? It gets caged in such a little word."
With gorgeous cover and interesting plot, suffice to say this was an enjoyable read for me!
This story is about love, betrayal, secrets and political issue between kingdoms filled with magical creatures and powers!
The plot is well crafted and pretty well written, although the pacing was a bit too fast in the first few chapters and feel slightly slower in certain parts of the story.
The world building is truly fascinating, but I wish some things were explained in the first few chapters of the book about how the magical power works for different kingdoms.
It took a while for me to get hooked into this story, because the plot progresses slightly in a slower rate before all the pieces started coming together. But once you understand it, you'll enjoy it more just like I did!
As for the characters, they're all likeable and I love reading all four main characters POV since each of them have their own story that will provide information for the readers to understand the main plot.
There's Isofel (Fel), the kind and honorable man with his twin sister Naia, who wants to live free from her brother's shadow. There's also the mysterious Fae that Naia help, River and the beautiful Frostlake princess, Leah who holds Isofel heart and has much more power than she realize.
I thought the romance part between the two couples are going to have an insta love relationship, fortunately it's nothing like that.
Naia and River as well as Fel and Leah romantic relationship have the potential to be more, it just need a bit more time to develop. Hopefully, we'll get to see more of them in the next book!
As for Leah and Fel, I hope they finally got together and start communicating more before assuming the worst!
Overall, this was an enjoyable and entertaining read! With so many secrets in this book, I still have a lot of questions and I'm hoping to got the full answers in the next book!
The ending doesn't have a huge cliffhanger but it does makes you feel excited to know more about it. I'm looking forward to read the next book in this duology!
If you're a reader who loves to read fantasy with slow burn romance and unique magical world building then I suggest checking this one out!
"You know something ? Destroying is easy. Breaking things apart is easy. Splitting is easy. It hurts, but it's easy, it requires no effort. You wanted to go about it the easy way.
Getting together, loving, building things, that's messy, hard, that takes work. Do you want to go about your plans and watch me leave ? It's easy. or do you want to go about it the hard way ?"
A huge thank you to the author, Day Leitao for giving me this digital copy of the book in exchange for my honest opinion, also thank you to TBR and Beyond Tours for allowing me to be a part of the book tour!
With gorgeous cover and interesting plot, suffice to say this was an enjoyable read for me!
This story is about love, betrayal, secrets and political issue between kingdoms filled with magical creatures and powers!
The plot is well crafted and pretty well written, although the pacing was a bit too fast in the first few chapters and feel slightly slower in certain parts of the story.
The world building is truly fascinating, but I wish some things were explained in the first few chapters of the book about how the magical power works for different kingdoms.
It took a while for me to get hooked into this story, because the plot progresses slightly in a slower rate before all the pieces started coming together. But once you understand it, you'll enjoy it more just like I did!
As for the characters, they're all likeable and I love reading all four main characters POV since each of them have their own story that will provide information for the readers to understand the main plot.
There's Isofel (Fel), the kind and honorable man with his twin sister Naia, who wants to live free from her brother's shadow. There's also the mysterious Fae that Naia help, River and the beautiful Frostlake princess, Leah who holds Isofel heart and has much more power than she realize.
I thought the romance part between the two couples are going to have an insta love relationship, fortunately it's nothing like that.
Naia and River as well as Fel and Leah romantic relationship have the potential to be more, it just need a bit more time to develop. Hopefully, we'll get to see more of them in the next book!
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Moreover.....River you have a lot of work to do to gain the my trust and Naia's back! I really like him but I started to get frustrated near the ending just like Naia. Hopefully, he'll learn his mistakes and start doing the hard way!As for Leah and Fel, I hope they finally got together and start communicating more before assuming the worst!
Overall, this was an enjoyable and entertaining read! With so many secrets in this book, I still have a lot of questions and I'm hoping to got the full answers in the next book!
The ending doesn't have a huge cliffhanger but it does makes you feel excited to know more about it. I'm looking forward to read the next book in this duology!
If you're a reader who loves to read fantasy with slow burn romance and unique magical world building then I suggest checking this one out!
"You know something ? Destroying is easy. Breaking things apart is easy. Splitting is easy. It hurts, but it's easy, it requires no effort. You wanted to go about it the easy way.
Getting together, loving, building things, that's messy, hard, that takes work. Do you want to go about your plans and watch me leave ? It's easy. or do you want to go about it the hard way ?"
A huge thank you to the author, Day Leitao for giving me this digital copy of the book in exchange for my honest opinion, also thank you to TBR and Beyond Tours for allowing me to be a part of the book tour!