Reviewed by ammaarah on
This book was an amazingly awesome surprise! I stayed up until 4am in the morning, just so I could finish this un-put-down-able book.
Yelena is such an amazing main character. She has a whole load of demons inside of her that she needs to fight and boy does she fight them. She is able to admit when she's wrong, but she also doesn't accept things the way that they are. She's a smart, tough fighting machine.
When I first met Valek, I did not guess that he was going to be Yelena's love interest because he was so cold and calculating, but after I got to know him through Yelena's eyes, I couldn't help but love Valek, the amazing assassin. Yelena and Valek, together, make such a deadly team (I wouldn't want to get on their bad side).
The secondary characters were either characters that I hated with my guts or they were characters that I couldn't help but love especially Ari and Janco.
This book was a fast paced, fun read that drew me into a world of poison, which was an amazing and interesting concept, magic, which has so much amazing potential, world building and politics, which was easy to understand, amazing fight scenes and amazing romance without any insta-love.
This book reminded me why I love the fantasy genre so much and I can't wait to read book two!
Reading updates
- Started reading
- 12 October, 2014: Finished reading
- 12 October, 2014: Reviewed