And it’s that close to the kind of YA fantasy book I want to be reading day and night.
Rielle and Eliana are two fierce heroines with incredible power that puts them in danger as much as it helps them grow into the invincible young women they want to be. They often do the unexpected, thus keeping you on the edge of your seat, and I quite admired their headstrong personalities and self-confidence.
He was hers, and these men wanted to kill him.
A knife-sharp rage crested within her.
How dare they?
There is romance, but that’s not the most important aspect of this book. It is overshadowed by the trials that Rielle faces to become the next Sun Queen, as well as Eliana’s mother’s disappearance. Eliana will do anything to get her mother back - lie, betray, kill. She doesn’t want to lose her like she lost her father. Those are the focal points.
I admit that it took me fifty pages to really get into this book, since I was very confused in the beginning. That’s why I cannot give it five stars. The prologue is incredible, but also extremely vague at the same time. I had about a thousand questions nested inside my mind by the time I finished it.
But here are two pieces of information that will make it easier for you to understand this book: 1. Rielle doesn’t want the king to discover she has magic, because she is afraid of what he and everyone else will do to her. 2. Eliana also doesn’t want people to discover her abilities because magic is supposedly extinct in her a-thousand-year-later world and she doesn’t want to draw attention to herself since she is an assassin.
Whenever you're lost or you don't understand why the characters would have said or done this and that, consider thinking back to those two points. After all, when you are keeping a huge secret, it is forever on your mind, so it is bound to influence your actions as well.
Don’t worry too much if things aren’t clear for you either in the first fifty or a hundred pages. Eventually, you’ll be able to spot what’s important and what isn’t, and lose yourself in the story and the adventures of the two strong magic users worth getting to know.
Rielle and Eliana are two fierce heroines with incredible power that puts them in danger as much as it helps them grow into the invincible young women they want to be. They often do the unexpected, thus keeping you on the edge of your seat, and I quite admired their headstrong personalities and self-confidence.
He was hers, and these men wanted to kill him.
A knife-sharp rage crested within her.
How dare they?
There is romance, but that’s not the most important aspect of this book. It is overshadowed by the trials that Rielle faces to become the next Sun Queen, as well as Eliana’s mother’s disappearance. Eliana will do anything to get her mother back - lie, betray, kill. She doesn’t want to lose her like she lost her father. Those are the focal points.
I admit that it took me fifty pages to really get into this book, since I was very confused in the beginning. That’s why I cannot give it five stars. The prologue is incredible, but also extremely vague at the same time. I had about a thousand questions nested inside my mind by the time I finished it.
But here are two pieces of information that will make it easier for you to understand this book: 1. Rielle doesn’t want the king to discover she has magic, because she is afraid of what he and everyone else will do to her. 2. Eliana also doesn’t want people to discover her abilities because magic is supposedly extinct in her a-thousand-year-later world and she doesn’t want to draw attention to herself since she is an assassin.
Whenever you're lost or you don't understand why the characters would have said or done this and that, consider thinking back to those two points. After all, when you are keeping a huge secret, it is forever on your mind, so it is bound to influence your actions as well.
Don’t worry too much if things aren’t clear for you either in the first fifty or a hundred pages. Eventually, you’ll be able to spot what’s important and what isn’t, and lose yourself in the story and the adventures of the two strong magic users worth getting to know.