Pawn (Blackcoat Rebellion, #1)

by Aimée Carter

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This is a nice little book. It throws you right into the action though it feeds you a lot of world building off the top. But the characters are making choices in the midst of all that and things happen so it's not so bad.

The characters are what make it engaging. Kitty is a bit petulant here and there but the other characters call her on it and there's a great deal of hard hitting logic. Which is refreshing. And Kitty doesn't fight it, which is also unexpectedly pleasant.

Here's the thing. An author can tell us until she's blue in the face about the history two characters have and how in love they are. But when one of them is barely in the book - it's hard to believe. And even worse, when there's another character the reader spends the whole story with and he's interesting and a good guy, even when there's not a love triangle it's hard to engage with that historic, life long love. Because the reader doesn't have the context the characters apparently do. So, if you want me to buy into your love story, it's not enough to tell me they've known each other forever, you have to actually put the love story in the book.