![]() ![]() The only issue is that she doesn’t live in a world that in any way, shape, or form conforms to that ideal. One of the large “themes” of the book (yes, that’s the “t” word, people) is that slavery is bad and needs to be abolished. The largest issue I had though was with the ultimately poor characterization of the two POVs. There’s also a lot of info-dumping that feels like info-dumping, and an ending that didn’t make much sense to me at all. ![]() Then there’s the bit on the back cover about “ empire spiraling into chaos,” but the elements that arise within the story that were obviously those fomenting the possible chaos… was a small, single group of a moderate number of people. Quicktongue find her father’s murderer in no more than three weeks. And despite this being an entire kingdom, she demands that Mr. Everywhere that Ana needs to travel to in the kingdom is within a week’s travel by horse. Surprise, surprise.ĭespite the decent storytelling at the beginning, once the story opens up, a number of difficulties arise. Which means, he’s more than happy to use the girl in any way he needs to in order to get what he wants. He’s by no means a “nice guy”, and I found that he didn’t have very many redeeming qualities. ![]() Again, a nice thought, but also pretty simple in its construction. Thus, his motivation is to work his way back to that mob boss and return himself to his position of power. Only he was double-crossed by a traitor within the organization and then ended up in prison for a crime he was ordered to commit. Prior to being incarcerated for plotting to kill the king, he was a right-hand man for what equates to a mob boss. Ramson is a fairly unsympathetic character. The story of a princess wrongly accused of murdering her father that uses her magical ability to murder those that stand in her way of justice. When her father the king realized this, eight years prior to the beginning of the story, he hid her away from the world and all it had to offer the young princess.Īt that point what I wasn’t prepared for was to find that the rogue she frees from prison was going to get some POV time too. Even when it’s flowing within a person’s body. Meaning, she can physically manipulate blood. In fact, she’s a Blood Affinite - a very rare and powerful type of Affinite. She’s what’s called an Affinite, a person that has an affinity for a particular idea or thing and thus has magical control over it. Those first couple chapters described a girl that was desperate and willing to do anything to accomplish her goal. I was pretty into the book by the time they escaped the prison. A bit simple, but that’s often how the young view the world. Unfortunately, he’s being held in a high-security prison, and she’s determined to first free him from incarceration and then turn him to her will. She’s been told of a resourceful con man, Ramson Quicktongue, that has a way to find essentially anyone in the entire kingdom. It’s been nearly a year since Ana’s escape from the castle where she grew up, and she’s been searching this entire time for some way to find the man that killed her father. The start of the story was pretty impressive. It’s the first book in a planned trilogy centered around Anastacya Mikhailov, who was first hidden away from the world because of her magical ability, and then later fled the castle when she was accused of murdering her own father. Turns out, there wasn’t much to get excited over.īLOOD HEIR ( Amazon) is a story about an exiled princess living in a Slavic-like world, trying to seek revenge against the man that murdered her father the king. Color me excited though when I saw that the book had quite obviously been published after all, and I was going to get a look at what all the hubbub was about. By the time I’d even heard about it though, the book had been pulled from publication, by request of the author, and it was no longer available for review. This is the author’s debut novel, and when it went out for early reviews, there was a bundle of people that started complaining quite loudly about how the book was racist and condoned slavery, and there was a big ruckus about it. Some of you may be familiar with or remember some of the mess that rose up around this book back in 2018. I was fairly surprised when I saw this book displayed on a wall at my local library.
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