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A review by abbieday01
The Blood That Binds Us by Erin Mainord
4.0
This book has everything!
A kingdom divided by prejudices (surprise). A ruler whose heart is darkened by pain, regret, guilt, revenge. A father who puppets the High Ruler to do his bidding and meet out vengeance for a death of his wife who was a transcendent (shifter) in hiding.
A rebellion. An oppressed people. A heartless ruling class.
A witch with more power than all the mages in the kingdom except the Black Art (the High Ruler).
Deception, lies, betrayal. Found family. Lost love. Power under control, power on the verge of breaking lose to the destruction of those around. Star crossed love. Enemies to lovers and back to enemies. A more than morally grey (let's just go with unapologetically black) MMC. A feisty, determined and unbreakable MFC who longs to unite the kingdom and end prejudices and who doesn't want to be a monster.
And here we go....an emotional roller coaster of a ride that will leave you conflicted, torn, and wanting to find out the end.
Is there redemption for Sin? Or will Wren lose it all?
Will love change - making the probable possible, righting wrongs and healing wounds? Or will love burn to the ground everything around it after being betrayed?
Pick it up - give it a read. I'd love to be on the ARC team for anything this author writes.
Trigger Warnings:
Violence, talk of SA (though not described it is alluded to), talk of trauma (PTSD), abuse both physical and mental, torture, war, manipulation (emotional more than anything else).
***If these are triggers for you please don't read. Though the rape is not described in detail it is a gang rape situation and it is broached more than once in this book as more than one character experienced rape at the hands of Legion. And the FMC is in a situation where attempted rape happens and ends with the would be rapist murdered. I suppose the take away is that rape does not define you, change you yes - but you can overcome and survive (for a rape and SA (multiple times over) victim/survivor I'd say that's a good message - and I wish I'd had a person rip apart my rapist and SA person - not murder, but at least stop it, and the person to be punished).
Scenes toward the end of the book (easily skipped).
Erin Mainord - looking forward to more from you.
A kingdom divided by prejudices (surprise). A ruler whose heart is darkened by pain, regret, guilt, revenge. A father who puppets the High Ruler to do his bidding and meet out vengeance for a death of his wife who was a transcendent (shifter) in hiding.
A rebellion. An oppressed people. A heartless ruling class.
A witch with more power than all the mages in the kingdom except the Black Art (the High Ruler).
Deception, lies, betrayal. Found family. Lost love. Power under control, power on the verge of breaking lose to the destruction of those around. Star crossed love. Enemies to lovers and back to enemies. A more than morally grey (let's just go with unapologetically black) MMC. A feisty, determined and unbreakable MFC who longs to unite the kingdom and end prejudices and who doesn't want to be a monster.
And here we go....an emotional roller coaster of a ride that will leave you conflicted, torn, and wanting to find out the end.
Is there redemption for Sin? Or will Wren lose it all?
Will love change - making the probable possible, righting wrongs and healing wounds? Or will love burn to the ground everything around it after being betrayed?
Pick it up - give it a read. I'd love to be on the ARC team for anything this author writes.
Trigger Warnings:
Violence, talk of SA (though not described it is alluded to), talk of trauma (PTSD), abuse both physical and mental, torture, war, manipulation (emotional more than anything else).
***If these are triggers for you please don't read. Though the rape is not described in detail it is a gang rape situation and it is broached more than once in this book as more than one character experienced rape at the hands of Legion. And the FMC is in a situation where attempted rape happens and ends with the would be rapist murdered. I suppose the take away is that rape does not define you, change you yes - but you can overcome and survive (for a rape and SA (multiple times over) victim/survivor I'd say that's a good message - and I wish I'd had a person rip apart my rapist and SA person - not murder, but at least stop it, and the person to be punished).
Scenes toward the end of the book (easily skipped).
Erin Mainord - looking forward to more from you.