I think I will come back to this book at some point next year, re-read it and see how I find it when less distracted. The tattoos of the blood magic left some interesting impositions on how it could be wielded, so it wasn’t all powerful. The magic was intriguing, particularly how the different races’ magics and myths interacted. They have a guess at what might be a motivation, but it’s very tentative – and still no hint on who it might be. I know it’s a duology, but even then I’d expect some progress to have been made. The mystery of who is after her and why is acknowledged as unsolved at the end, and it was very unsatisfying. One thing I know I didn’t miss, because the beginning and ends are the only bits I registered, was the mystery getting tied up.
Yes, I realise that that first angry meeting basically the YA way of saying they’ll get together, so at least I could guess that I’d missed the build up as I could tell they’d be a pair. For example, I was reading and suddenly they were kissing and the last thing I remember from this pairing was them snarling at each other 200 pages before. That has consumed my thoughts, even when I forced myself to sit down and read today. It’s a short book, and so I should have read it in two days, but it’s been five, because my mind has been occupied with a drafting issue on a project. I have literally just finished the book, but I have no idea what the book was about. I think the main issue while reading this was how distracted I was.
Because despite the love she still has for her sister, Eva will have to choose: Isa’s death or her own. As tensions escalate, Eva is forced to turn to a fey instructor of mythic proportions and a mysterious and handsome khimaer prince for help in growing her magick into something to fear. When Eva is attacked by an assassin just weeks before the battle with her sister, she discovers there is more to the attempt on her life than meets the eye–and it isn’t just her sister who wants to see her dead.
Living in Raina’s long and dark shadow, Eva must now face her older sister, Isa, in a battle to the death if she hopes to ascend to the Ivory Throne–because in the Queendom of Myre only the strongest, most ruthless rulers survive. Its last known practitioner was Queen Raina, who toppled the native khimaer royalty and massacred thousands, including her own sister, eight generations ago, thus beginning the Rival Heir tradition. Sixteen-year-old Eva is a princess, born with the magick of marrow and blood–a dark and terrible magick that hasn’t been seen for generations in the vibrant but fractured country of Myre.
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