Reviewed by layawaydragon on
I started Song of Blood and Stone and finished in one night. I HAD to. It was just that good.
Includes but is not limited to:
Endearing, clever characters
A genuine push-pull kind of relationship that quickly won me over. There are some explicit passages about hooking up and sex, but it's hardly erotic and I'm sure teens can handle it. Army battles and court drama.
The nebulous court of public opinion and journalism and protests.
Magic and technology.
I legit cried at one point.
Thorough world building, two hero arcs, a romance, and a quest are completed in this one book instead of being dragged out to two or three. And it's all wildly talented and impressive and done SO fucking well, it's ridiculous.
Especially that fucking ending!!
I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE NEXT ONE.
Quotes:
Perhaps he was a warrior jester--fierce one moment, jovial the next.
Her mama had been too good for this world and was needed in the World After to spread her love there.
Once upon a time, we were close as heartbeats.
"I was found, Captain."
He stood on a tightrope with doom on one side and failure on the other, but in only a handful of days Jasminda had become the bar he gripped to balance him.
He'd thought the war was against a foreign enemy, when really he just may have to save his land from itself.
The clerk pronounced the words as if speaking around marbles in her cheeks.
"It must be hard living in a land with so much sameness that any deviation at all stands out."
Sympathy and sentimentality are like quicksand. I cannot allow them to pull him under as they did me.
Reading updates
- Started reading
- Finished reading
- 26 July, 2018: Reviewed