onceuponafrida 's review for:

An Heir Comes to Rise by Chloe C. Peñaranda

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I’ve always been partial to this type of fantasy, an ”average” girl who comes to find she has powers and finds her true purpose in this world, fighting and saving everyone, etc, etc.. So I do like this story, even though it’s very clear that the author has been heavily influenced by Throne of glass and similar romantasy books of that era. It’s still a good story! 

I did have a tougher time getting into this book because of the third person pov, definitely prefer first person. I also thought that the book could have been comprised to a lot less pages. I have hope that the rest of the books in this series are better, the ending did seem promising for the next book. I have the second book on my kindle, so I will probably read that one before I decide if I want to continue or not! 📖