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A review by wendeedeedee36
Blooms of Darkness by Helen Domico, Anna Applegate
5.0
I cannot believe how much I enjoyed this book. Tits and daggers it was AH-MAZING! I was sucked in from the very first page and it never let me go. We follow Eliana, the magic ales heir to the fae throne in a land where magic is strength and thus everything. Forced to hide her lack of magic to protect her position, she also has to hide everything about herself in order to be as unnoticeable as possible. Despite it all she is kind and genuinely seems to love her people.
Unfortunately, there’s a darkness spreading across the land and her father won’t tell her anything about it. To make matters worse, he seems to be progressively getting sicker and sicker.
Lana has found was to make her life have meaning while helping her people in secret, but her life takes a turn when her father tells her she is to marry and they will hold a set of trials to decide on her husband.
With the help of her two best friends, Ian and Kalliah, Lana struggles to deal with competitors of all types: condescending, friendly, indifferent, and even rude and broody. That is a far as I’ll delve into plot to avoid spoilers, but I promise you it gets even better after that.
Lana and Kade’s romantic tension is 🔥 He’s an almost annoyingly cocky for me at the beginning but I love how his character develops as the story progresses. Their banter also got better and better and I loved it.
I really like all the “secondary” characters as well, though I hate calling them that. Ian is wonderful and I adore his loyalty. Kalliah is fun and a good balance to Ian’s more serious manner. Storm is incredibly intriguing because I just know there’s a good back story out there for him. I even liked Corbin and Leif and I really hope we see them in Shadows of Ruin (which I will immediately be starting to read once I post this review 😆)
Unfortunately, there’s a darkness spreading across the land and her father won’t tell her anything about it. To make matters worse, he seems to be progressively getting sicker and sicker.
Lana has found was to make her life have meaning while helping her people in secret, but her life takes a turn when her father tells her she is to marry and they will hold a set of trials to decide on her husband.
With the help of her two best friends, Ian and Kalliah, Lana struggles to deal with competitors of all types: condescending, friendly, indifferent, and even rude and broody. That is a far as I’ll delve into plot to avoid spoilers, but I promise you it gets even better after that.
Lana and Kade’s romantic tension is 🔥 He’s an almost annoyingly cocky for me at the beginning but I love how his character develops as the story progresses. Their banter also got better and better and I loved it.
I really like all the “secondary” characters as well, though I hate calling them that. Ian is wonderful and I adore his loyalty. Kalliah is fun and a good balance to Ian’s more serious manner. Storm is incredibly intriguing because I just know there’s a good back story out there for him. I even liked Corbin and Leif and I really hope we see them in Shadows of Ruin (which I will immediately be starting to read once I post this review 😆)