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A review by cameopoissant
The Heir by Claudia Klein
4.0
3.5 stars rounded up to 4
For not being a fantasy reader, I really enjoyed the elements this story had at play - medieval kingdoms at war, young princesses finding themselves fleeing their country in opposite directions, and a dark force at work to tear a country apart. There was action, adventure, and self-discovery from every angle, and the different storylines all finding their way together near the end kept me interested the whole way through.
I will say one thing that was a bit confusing at first was the frequent shift in POV because the novel is written in third person where the narrator knows everything going on and is able to tell the story from any character’s POV, inner thoughts included. There were several instances where we jump around from character to character which got a little confusing, but not impossible to follow.
I would classify the Heir as a good introduction to fantasy for the YA age, but was still interesting as an adult. It was clean language and no adult topics (ie sexual scenes, in depth descriptions of gore, etc) other than of course war, which is prevalent in the majority of the book.
There’s so much potential here for the remainder of the story in the second book, which I had to see if it was available because this one ended on quite the cliffhanger! Thank you so much to Claudia for sending me an eARC of this novel in exchange for an honest review!
For not being a fantasy reader, I really enjoyed the elements this story had at play - medieval kingdoms at war, young princesses finding themselves fleeing their country in opposite directions, and a dark force at work to tear a country apart. There was action, adventure, and self-discovery from every angle, and the different storylines all finding their way together near the end kept me interested the whole way through.
I will say one thing that was a bit confusing at first was the frequent shift in POV because the novel is written in third person where the narrator knows everything going on and is able to tell the story from any character’s POV, inner thoughts included. There were several instances where we jump around from character to character which got a little confusing, but not impossible to follow.
I would classify the Heir as a good introduction to fantasy for the YA age, but was still interesting as an adult. It was clean language and no adult topics (ie sexual scenes, in depth descriptions of gore, etc) other than of course war, which is prevalent in the majority of the book.
There’s so much potential here for the remainder of the story in the second book, which I had to see if it was available because this one ended on quite the cliffhanger! Thank you so much to Claudia for sending me an eARC of this novel in exchange for an honest review!