28
Jul, 2024

ARC REVIEW: Daughter of the Drowned Empire by Frankie Diane Mallis

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Daughter of the Drowned Empire is a new adult high fantasy/romantasy by Frankie Diane Mallis; it is book one in the Drowned Empire series. It follows Lady Lyriana, who is third in line to the Seat of Power in Bamaria, but her position is not one of safety. Her cousin is gone, her sisters need protection, and now so does she. With her plans shaken and on the threat of having to leave her home, she has to take the only option available to her: training to be a Soturion warrior in only seven months. But she’s not alone; Lord Rhyan, an outsider in Bamaria, has to prove himself by helping Lyr get through training. However, this isn’t their only trial because Bamaria is under threat, so are Lyr and her family, and Lyr needs to be strong enough to fight for not just herself and her family but for her country—she cannot fail.

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5
Jul, 2023

REVIEW: A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

Rating: 5 out of 5.

A Court of Mist and Fury is a High Fantasy Romance Novel by Sarah J. Maas, the second in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series. Following the trials Under the Mountain and the freedom from Amarantha that Feyre has brought to Prythian, she struggles to cope with the trauma. Feyre is struggling to find where she now belongs in this body, in this new world, and in her relationships. She is struggling to see if she belongs. And as if this were not enough to handle, she also has that little sticky bargain with the High Lord of the Night Court himself to contend with, and of course, war is looming. A war that will affect everyone she holds dear. Was the price she paid for saving Tamlin and all of Prythian worth the pain? Or was it only the first line crossed in many, many more to come?

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11
Jun, 2023

REVIEW: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Rating: 5 out of 5.

A Court of Thorns and Roses is a High Fantasy Novel by Sarah J. Maas and the first book in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series. Feyre is only nineteen, and yet her family’s lives rest on her shoulders. Her world is bleak and cold, and everything is a fight to survive. Until one choice, one arrow changes everything, an action to feed the ones she has sworn to protect means she is ripped from the world she has known, a world where she has fought tooth and nail to survive and dropped into a world that seems anything but hard—peaceful, perhaps. Finding her footing, finding where she stands now, will be challenging, but with creatures, she knows only tales about surrounding her and secrets, so many secrets, being kept from her, this colourful land may be harder than the one she came from. What would you do for love? Just how far would you go to protect the ones you love? Which lines would you cross?

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