Author: Megg Jensen
Format: Ebook provided by author
From Goodreads
An adoptee raised in a foreign land, sixteen-year-old Lianne was content with her life as handmaiden to the queen, until a spell cast on her at birth activated. Now she's filled with uncontrollable rage and access to magic she thought had been bled from her people years ago. Even her years of secret training in elite hand-to-hand combat and meditation can’t calm the fires raging inside her.
Her heart is torn between two boys, the one she’s always loved and the one who always ignored her. But when the kingdom threatens to tear itself apart due to rumors surrounding the queen’s alleged affair, who will Lianne protect and who will she destroy?
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I didn’t take many notes on this book, because I could
barely put it down! It was a superb
read, and I can’t wait to read Book Two!
Lianne is a handmaiden to the queen of Fithia, Mags. But Mags is also a friend, one of the few
that Lianne really has. Of course there’s
her boyfriend, Kellan, and the other adoptee into Fithia, Bryden. But that’s about it. She’s never really been a part of the society
she lived in from the time she was a baby, and never knowing her own homeland,
she was almost alone her entire life.
Then on the morning of her sixteenth birthday Lianne wakes
up angry. It’s not just a passing mood; it’s
a rage at what’s been done to her, Kellan, and Bryden since they were adopted
into Fithia as part of a treaty at the end of the war between the Dalagans and
the Fithians.
Kellan is dark and sexy, the “bad boy” young girls dream
about. He makes Lianne feel alive and
ready to live, ready to fight. And then
there is Bryden, the third adoptee. He
was injured as a boy and has a permanent limp.
He’s book smart, not so much the fighter that Lianne and Kellan
are. Odd man out, you’d think. That is, until Lianne wakes up angry. Bryden is the boy who brings her to calmness
and serenity. Maybe not what she wants
at the moment, but what she needs, right?
I really loved this love triangle. It was hard to tell who to trust at different
points in the story. In the tug of war
over Lianne’s heart, I often felt myself switching sides between Bryden and
Kellan. Lead with your heart, or lead
with your head?
When Lianne goes through her “awakening” and she wakes up
knowing the secrets that have been hidden from her for her entire life
regarding the war between the two sets of people. I thought this was a very unique plot twist
that I haven’t seen yet…children under a magical spell until their sixteenth
birthday. Brilliant idea, in my opinion.
Lianne is getting different information from almost every
place she turns to for answers. I was
right there with her, trying to figure out whom to trust and who not to. It seems no one really knows what the real answer is. Her whole life has been a secret and a
lie.
When the truth finally comes out it is explosive! There is nonstop action, and I actually felt
joy at the impending war that was certain to come next. I know, that sounds bad, right? But it meant freedom for the adopted kids who really never knew family, never
knew their history, their people.
But wait! The secrets
aren’t over, oh no, not by a long shot.
And when things are brought to light, and Lianne discovers that what you
think is good is not always good, and what you thought was bad was not entirely
wrong… well, it rocks her world and everything she believed. The plot twists in this story will definitely
keep you reading and waiting anxiously to find out what happens next. As for me, I’m happily waiting until June of
this year for book two, Afterlife.
