Maiden of Candlelight and Lotuses (The Zheninghai Chronicles, #0)

by Anastasis Blythe

Dreams of magic and romance have no place in the heart of a poor farm girl. Or so Liena thought…

Magical visions have a way of turning the world upside-down. One minute Song Liena is a simple farm girl hoping for good luck at the matchmaker, and the next she is a student at the empire’s most rigorous and dangerous magic Academy.

It doesn’t take long for her to realize she’s ten years behind, her magic is weak, and she is in way over her head. But Liena is determined to work hard if it means a chance at a better life for her family.

She just wasn’t counting on being noticed by the handsome Crown Prince—a warrior-in-training said to have fire magic powerful enough to decimate entire armies.

But princes are not for peasants, and everything is not as it seems at the Academy. Monsters lurk around every corner, and someone is dabbling in dark, illegal magic.
Someone who has set their sinister sights on her.

• ASIN: B0BH1XZ79S
• Publish Date: 6 October 2022
• Publish Status: Active
• Format: eBook (Kindle)
• Pages: 232
• Language: English

Reviews

[ladygrey]

From a writing standpoint, as far as prose and description and constructing a story out of sentences, this book isn't bad. From a story standpoint, as far as tension, characters, plot, this book is boring. I didn't care about any of the characters, the main character in particular. And while on the surface things happened--Liena discovers she has magic and goes to a school and has to fight people--nothing happened. There was no surprise in the discovery of magic, no tension or excitement in the fights. The secondary characters weren't really developed and the explanation of the magic and the kingdom was weak. Maybe it was going to get better as the story went on but there was nothing engaging to make me want to keep going with the story.