If you love a broody she's mine love story that slowly simmers, no explosion of heat, if you dream of broken societies and revel in underdog to powerful nobility transitions, if intrigue mystery and a clueless protagonist make you turn pages faster, then this is absolutely the book for you!
Vasilisa Drake pens a series opener with panache, a prison, a emancipated heroine, who's past is turmoiled and misdemeanors not clear, forced to serve in the prison. One day, a vampire is brought in as a new prisoner and she realizes she will never be freed of her service, unless she helps the prisoner escape. What follows is a journey across the kingdom, a quest for a lost book, a failed monastery conversion attempt, lots of ruthlessness and a swell of secondary characters - Demos and Thea - The reminded me of a youthful Cadsuane from wheel of time...
Caught between court intrigue, societal norms and her own naive idealism, Samara totters through the novel plucking at half truths and trembling to understand the tides of power and myth that are flowing through the tale...
I am hoping that the next book will draw out more of her childhood and her fractal memories of her past, while also granting her a queenly grace!
Thank yous to Scarlett Press and Netgalley for providing the arc!
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