I was beyond excited to get approved for Heir! I read AEITA series with some friends last year and was heartbroken and swooning and cheering and grieving and couldn’t have done it alone! People think ASOIAF is brutal, but these YA books are gut wrenching! So of course I was excited to read Heir, because who doesn’t love light masochism???
I was rooting for Aiz because who doesn’t love a downtrodden underdog willing to risk it all to save her people? Quil is everything I expected Helene to raise as her nephew and heir. Sirsha is the badass FMC who’s wholly capable of going it alone, but learns how much better it is to let people in.
While I did spot a few of the major twists due to excellent foreshadowing, I enjoyed reading how each turn would play out, even though it broke my heart just a little more to see each disaster unfolding! Aiz betrayed me most of all, and I found her actions to be a little contrary—she needed a substance from the Empire for her people to take a long journey, but in order to get it, she wasted the stores of the substance her people already had? I felt like if she had enough to do what she did then she had enough to take the trip that needed to be taken? But I also recognize she was ultimately being manipulated, so maybe what she did didn’t need to make sense.
Cero was the biggest surprise for me, and I can’t wait to see what he does next! I hope the next book doesn’t take too long to come out because Quil and Sirsha deserve so much more, and I want to eat up every morsel! I am also hoping for some more Sufiyan POV chapters!
Ultimately, I am giving this five stars because I was invested and entertained the whole way through!
I was rooting for Aiz because who doesn’t love a downtrodden underdog willing to risk it all to save her people? Quil is everything I expected Helene to raise as her nephew and heir. Sirsha is the badass FMC who’s wholly capable of going it alone, but learns how much better it is to let people in.
While I did spot a few of the major twists due to excellent foreshadowing, I enjoyed reading how each turn would play out, even though it broke my heart just a little more to see each disaster unfolding! Aiz betrayed me most of all, and I found her actions to be a little contrary—she needed a substance from the Empire for her people to take a long journey, but in order to get it, she wasted the stores of the substance her people already had? I felt like if she had enough to do what she did then she had enough to take the trip that needed to be taken? But I also recognize she was ultimately being manipulated, so maybe what she did didn’t need to make sense.
Cero was the biggest surprise for me, and I can’t wait to see what he does next! I hope the next book doesn’t take too long to come out because Quil and Sirsha deserve so much more, and I want to eat up every morsel! I am also hoping for some more Sufiyan POV chapters!
Ultimately, I am giving this five stars because I was invested and entertained the whole way through!