I’m just particularly sensitive to that sort of thing right now, and I’m self-aware enough to know it. And the thing is, this probably wouldn’t bother most people. I noticed a lot of passive voice, telling instead of showing, and some weird word choices that just didn’t quite work. There wasn’t anything that was outright incorrect, just things that I felt like could have been done better. In a lot of ways this felt like a first novel. In the end I really loved the story and the characters but I just wasn’t a fan of the writing. And with powerful forces lurking in the shadows, Vhalla’s indecision could cost her more than she ever imagined.ĭiscussion: So this one left me with some mixed feelings, but I will readily admit that I couldn’t stop reading it. Now she must decide her future: Embrace her sorcery and leave the life she’s known, or eradicate her magic and remain as she’s always been. But after she unknowingly saves the life of one of the most powerful sorcerers of them all–the Crown Prince Aldrik–she finds herself enticed into his world. Vhalla has always been taught to fear the Tower of Sorcerers, a mysterious magic society, and has been happy in her quiet world of books. The Solaris Empire is one conquest away from uniting the continent, and the rare elemental magic sleeping in seventeen-year-old library apprentice Vhalla Yarl could shift the tides of war.

When he awakens her magic, there’s no going back. Why I Chose It: I decided since I’m self-publishing young adult fantasy that I should probably read more self-published young adult fantasy, and this one was at the top of the list.Ī library girl with a secret.

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