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A review by ufcasey
Blade & Rose by Miranda Honfleur
4.0
3.5 stars
I put off the next book I was planning to read so I could instead go ahead and read the second book in this series, if that tells you anything about my feelings towards this book. This is fantasy romance and it is ridiculously freaking hard to find good books in this genre (notable exceptions: [b:A Court of Mist and Fury|17927395|A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)|Sarah J. Maas|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1485259138s/17927395.jpg|25126749] and almost anything [a:C.L. Wilson|1310735|C.L. Wilson|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1249006911p2/1310735.jpg] writes), so finding something even quasi-decent is exciting. There's still definite room for improvement, but this is the first book in the series so I'm rounding up but hoping for something a little stronger in the second book. With that said, this one has some interesting characters, backstories, action, and romance along with some magic/fantasy elements.
I'm not-so-secretly hoping that this series pulls a Sarah Maas twist on us in the sense that the 'love interest' character and 'the asshole-guy' character switch places in the heroine's affections in a future book because I'm very much rooting for that, but maybe that's just me wishing too hard for a Rhysand 2.0. We'll see!
I put off the next book I was planning to read so I could instead go ahead and read the second book in this series, if that tells you anything about my feelings towards this book. This is fantasy romance and it is ridiculously freaking hard to find good books in this genre (notable exceptions: [b:A Court of Mist and Fury|17927395|A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)|Sarah J. Maas|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1485259138s/17927395.jpg|25126749] and almost anything [a:C.L. Wilson|1310735|C.L. Wilson|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1249006911p2/1310735.jpg] writes), so finding something even quasi-decent is exciting. There's still definite room for improvement, but this is the first book in the series so I'm rounding up but hoping for something a little stronger in the second book. With that said, this one has some interesting characters, backstories, action, and romance along with some magic/fantasy elements.
I'm not-so-secretly hoping that this series pulls a Sarah Maas twist on us in the sense that the 'love interest' character and 'the asshole-guy' character switch places in the heroine's affections in a future book because I'm very much rooting for that, but maybe that's just me wishing too hard for a Rhysand 2.0. We'll see!