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A review by lawbooks600
The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni
4.0
Trigger warnings: Fire, near death experiences, torture, imprisonment, riot, death of a person in a prison, self-harm
7/10, I was hoping that this would be a good fantasy novel after the not-so-good ones I've read and an Australian writer wrote this to boot so my expectations were raised even higher than usual and of course, this met my expectations; didn't exceed them however this was still enjoyable. It starts off in the Zalindov prison and I've seen novels like this before but never have I seen one so well executed, but anyways Kiva the main character is introduced alongside other characters and the first 100 pages starts off slowly; it thickens when Tilda the Rebel Queen is imprisoned and is forced to do the Trial but Kiva steps in to do the Trial for her essentially sacrificing her life for her just to show her strength and I didn't know where this was going but I read on to see what would happen. She does the first Trial by Air by jumping off a tower and she almost fell to her death if it weren't for prince Jaren and he plays a major role later on and a few pages later she notices that people were getting sick so she investigates and initially she doesn't know but it was revealed they were all poisoned and I knew something big was imminent. Anyways she survives the next three trials with Jaren's help saving her from death like four times; towards the end there was a revolution she feared would happen and Tilda was killed in the process however she proclaims herself as the Rebel Princess and it all ends in a epic cliffhanger; can't wait to read the next two books in the series.
7/10, I was hoping that this would be a good fantasy novel after the not-so-good ones I've read and an Australian writer wrote this to boot so my expectations were raised even higher than usual and of course, this met my expectations; didn't exceed them however this was still enjoyable. It starts off in the Zalindov prison and I've seen novels like this before but never have I seen one so well executed, but anyways Kiva the main character is introduced alongside other characters and the first 100 pages starts off slowly; it thickens when Tilda the Rebel Queen is imprisoned and is forced to do the Trial but Kiva steps in to do the Trial for her essentially sacrificing her life for her just to show her strength and I didn't know where this was going but I read on to see what would happen. She does the first Trial by Air by jumping off a tower and she almost fell to her death if it weren't for prince Jaren and he plays a major role later on and a few pages later she notices that people were getting sick so she investigates and initially she doesn't know but it was revealed they were all poisoned and I knew something big was imminent. Anyways she survives the next three trials with Jaren's help saving her from death like four times; towards the end there was a revolution she feared would happen and Tilda was killed in the process however she proclaims herself as the Rebel Princess and it all ends in a epic cliffhanger; can't wait to read the next two books in the series.