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Heavenbreaker by Sara Wolf
5.0
I don't know where to start. This took me a while to get into, as sci-fi isn't my main genre (romantasy is), but once I got into it I could not put it down. It's like, Neon Genesis Evangelian, but in space, with a fantasy structure containing Divergent esque components. It was amazing.
Synali has painstakingly made her way to get father and ended him, after he had her mother (and almost her) assassinated. She survived, and has now come for retribution. Forced to enter a steed and compete in a tournament, Synali enters the world of the riders, fully expecting to die. She doesn't. She lives. And is brought to recovery by Dravik Lethroi.
In a grand plot to end the house Hauteclare and dishonor them in the biggest way, Synali and Dravik work together. Synali will ride Heavenbreaker, and for each match she wins, Dravik will eliminate one of the seven nobles involved in her mother's death. Close calls, deception, and pure rage drive her training and first few matches.
She makes unlikely, tentative allies in her own cousin Mirelle, and another rider - Rax. Rax is the first rider she comes up against when she first rode a steed. After he figures out that she was the rider that day, he is completely transfixed with her competing and winning, so that he can have her for himself. As an opponent, of course. But also maybe something more?
As Synali continues to win and the nobles drop, her connection to Heavenbreaker becomes worrisome as well, and she learns the secrets that Dravik has been keeping from her. Although she went into this with a death wish, she is furious at being lied to, and at having her hope for revenge and moving forward tarnished.
The end. Of this book. Omg. I absolutely cannot wait for Hellrunner, because I NEED to know what happens next!
Synali has painstakingly made her way to get father and ended him, after he had her mother (and almost her) assassinated. She survived, and has now come for retribution. Forced to enter a steed and compete in a tournament, Synali enters the world of the riders, fully expecting to die. She doesn't. She lives. And is brought to recovery by Dravik Lethroi.
In a grand plot to end the house Hauteclare and dishonor them in the biggest way, Synali and Dravik work together. Synali will ride Heavenbreaker, and for each match she wins, Dravik will eliminate one of the seven nobles involved in her mother's death. Close calls, deception, and pure rage drive her training and first few matches.
She makes unlikely, tentative allies in her own cousin Mirelle, and another rider - Rax. Rax is the first rider she comes up against when she first rode a steed. After he figures out that she was the rider that day, he is completely transfixed with her competing and winning, so that he can have her for himself. As an opponent, of course. But also maybe something more?
As Synali continues to win and the nobles drop, her connection to Heavenbreaker becomes worrisome as well, and she learns the secrets that Dravik has been keeping from her. Although she went into this with a death wish, she is furious at being lied to, and at having her hope for revenge and moving forward tarnished.
The end. Of this book. Omg. I absolutely cannot wait for Hellrunner, because I NEED to know what happens next!