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A review by winterreader40
The Broken Crown by Michelle West
4.0
This book picks up 1 year after the previous book and it's a rough start as the prologue is a kidnapping and rape, the rape isn't on page and the injury description is extremely vague. The point of this is that the lord of the hells wants a godborn child and only a healer born would be able to survive the event long enough to give it to him, her name is Kiriel.
Most of the story takes place in the Dominion a place where a woman's only job is to be graceful, lovely and quiet. Teresa and her niece Diora are these things but they also have the bardic voice which has ruined Teresa's life as her family never let her leave so she hides Diora's talent so that she can have a normal life. She is married to the heir of the highest clan in the land but it all ends in heartbreak when her father and his friend decide to wipe out the line and take their place as the leaders of the country.
This series is also extremely dense with a huge cast of characters including Valedan(the lone surviving Leonne heir) and Kiriel(daughter of darkness)and we see Jewel, now 32 in Essalieyan. While a good portion of the MC's are are in their late teens, they never feel that young.
Most of the story takes place in the Dominion a place where a woman's only job is to be graceful, lovely and quiet. Teresa and her niece Diora are these things but they also have the bardic voice which has ruined Teresa's life as her family never let her leave so she hides Diora's talent so that she can have a normal life. She is married to the heir of the highest clan in the land but it all ends in heartbreak when her father and his friend decide to wipe out the line and take their place as the leaders of the country.
This series is also extremely dense with a huge cast of characters including Valedan(the lone surviving Leonne heir) and Kiriel(daughter of darkness)and we see Jewel, now 32 in Essalieyan. While a good portion of the MC's are are in their late teens, they never feel that young.