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A review by mcaliz
She Who Rides the Storm by Caitlin Sangster
4.0
I need a second to flesh out my thoughts but I REALLY enjoyed this!! I need book 2 ASAP
FULL REVIEW!
Content warnings: attempted sexual assault
Rep: fake marriage/courtship, sibling relationships, animal companions
Thoughts
Neutral thoughts:
This has long chapters so it took me a while to get thru the book & as you get further into the book the perspective will change midway thru the chapter either once or twice or like 4/5 times (so it would be a little jarring at times even if it would add to some of the suspense of the novel)
Pros:
I loved the lore! There was a lot of discussion of the different “origins” of the different peoples and their magic and where it came from and how it was determined who was “dangerous.” I love books that talk about good and evil, that neither side is “good” or “evil” it’s what people decide to do with their magic that determine if the individual is a character of evil or good; and even that is still not black or white. So this part was undoubtedly my favorite part of the whole book & it’s mainly what the book focuses on as well
I loved the magic system in this as well. It focuses on auras, some mind reading, healing, being connected to the energy around us in order to manipulate things, and of course, shapeshifting. I honestly can't wait to learn more about the magic in the next one
THE ENDIND HAD ME F*CKED UP. There were constant twists and turns in this and every time I thought I knew who was involved and how, I ended up being completely wrong & I WAS SHOOK.
Like I mentioned in my content warning, there are two scenes of attempted sexual assault on one of the female characters. After the first attempt, the character, Lia, is traumatized and it results in her not liking people, and mainly men, form touching her without her permission and her anxiety becomes more intense than what it was before. And it’s not that she blames herself for what happened, but she blames herself for her emotional reaction to the attempted assault, how she gets scared opposed to being “strong enough to deal with it head on” like she has to everything & the absolute fear that she has of just thinking about the man who tried to rape her. Which is completely valid and it something that any sexual assault victim may and will experience and it wasn’t belittled in this book and the boundaries that Lia placed on those around her and that they followed them even though they didn’t know exactly what happened; and I really appreciated that.
Gripes:
I just felt a little confused by the magic system? Like I couldn’t tell who could do and couldn’t do certain things as well as the overall lore of the magic in this world for like 200 pages of the book. There were more explanations as the book went on, but I was so CONFUSED in the first half of the book.
The romance(s):
Anwei & Knox:
These two were a hot mess but I was here for it
FULL REVIEW!
Content warnings: attempted sexual assault
Rep: fake marriage/courtship, sibling relationships, animal companions
Thoughts
Neutral thoughts:
This has long chapters so it took me a while to get thru the book & as you get further into the book the perspective will change midway thru the chapter either once or twice or like 4/5 times (so it would be a little jarring at times even if it would add to some of the suspense of the novel)
Pros:
I loved the lore! There was a lot of discussion of the different “origins” of the different peoples and their magic and where it came from and how it was determined who was “dangerous.” I love books that talk about good and evil, that neither side is “good” or “evil” it’s what people decide to do with their magic that determine if the individual is a character of evil or good; and even that is still not black or white. So this part was undoubtedly my favorite part of the whole book & it’s mainly what the book focuses on as well
I loved the magic system in this as well. It focuses on auras, some mind reading, healing, being connected to the energy around us in order to manipulate things, and of course, shapeshifting. I honestly can't wait to learn more about the magic in the next one
THE ENDIND HAD ME F*CKED UP. There were constant twists and turns in this and every time I thought I knew who was involved and how, I ended up being completely wrong & I WAS SHOOK.
Like I mentioned in my content warning, there are two scenes of attempted sexual assault on one of the female characters. After the first attempt, the character, Lia, is traumatized and it results in her not liking people, and mainly men, form touching her without her permission and her anxiety becomes more intense than what it was before. And it’s not that she blames herself for what happened, but she blames herself for her emotional reaction to the attempted assault, how she gets scared opposed to being “strong enough to deal with it head on” like she has to everything & the absolute fear that she has of just thinking about the man who tried to rape her. Which is completely valid and it something that any sexual assault victim may and will experience and it wasn’t belittled in this book and the boundaries that Lia placed on those around her and that they followed them even though they didn’t know exactly what happened; and I really appreciated that.
Gripes:
I just felt a little confused by the magic system? Like I couldn’t tell who could do and couldn’t do certain things as well as the overall lore of the magic in this world for like 200 pages of the book. There were more explanations as the book went on, but I was so CONFUSED in the first half of the book.
The romance(s):
Anwei & Knox:
These two were a hot mess but I was here for it