A review by ladyknightmeg
Bloodforged by Erin Lindsey
4.0
E-galley provided courtesy of Penguin Group USA and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
Political intrigue, a vast array of characters, battle scenes, and romance: If you are a fan of any or all of these things, then The Bloodforged is probably your kind of book.
I stumbled upon this series completely by accident, and I'm so glad that I did. Quite frankly, I'm surprised that it's not more popular. I thoroughly enjoyed book 1: The Bloodbound, and was lucky enough to be approved for this ebook ARC of book 2.
The Bloodforged picks up where The Bloodbound left off, with Alix Black, body guard to King Erik of Alden and the rest of Erik's court
There are quite a few additional POVs in The Bloodforged, and at first this made me hesitant - I am not always a fan of POV switching, and often find myself having the urge to swtich ahead to my preferred characters POV. (cough cough, A Song of Ice and Fire. I rarely encountered this with The Bloodforged, and for that I am grateful.
I was especially happy with Riggard "Rig" Black's POV. Over all I just love his character, and the battle scenes that ensued in his chapters, as well as some pretty good romance.
There is a lot going on in this book - Alix and Erik are attempting a near-fatal mission through the mountains to reach out to one Kingdom for support in this time of war, while Liam is elsewhere in a tangle of political intrigue. Alix's brother Rig, and commander general to the Aldenian Kingswords is busy using unconventional military tactics in an attempt to outsmart the Oridian Warlord. Not once did I find myself bored, or ready to put this book down.
The battle scenes are extremely well done, as well as all of the politics and much of the world building. I fell for Riggard Black, and found Liam White's character growing on me significantly since meeting him in The Bloodbound. Clearly a lot of research and planning was put into this book.
The only thing that has knocked this down to four stars from me was the Romance. While it had certainly improved from Book 1, where I felt that much of the Romance was abrupt and in need of some development, I still found myself lacking feeling when reading the more intimate sections of this book. That being said, romance does not make or break a book for me and the battles, adventure and twists and turns of the plot were much more important to me.
And the end, my goodness the ending was fantastic. I am so on edge, and so ready to find out what happens next.
Over all four out of five stars awarded to The Bloodforged. If you are a historical fantasy lover like myself, you'll likely enjoy this book as much as I did.
Political intrigue, a vast array of characters, battle scenes, and romance: If you are a fan of any or all of these things, then The Bloodforged is probably your kind of book.
I stumbled upon this series completely by accident, and I'm so glad that I did. Quite frankly, I'm surprised that it's not more popular. I thoroughly enjoyed book 1: The Bloodbound, and was lucky enough to be approved for this ebook ARC of book 2.
The Bloodforged picks up where The Bloodbound left off, with Alix Black, body guard to King Erik of Alden and the rest of Erik's court
Spoiler
after the Aldenians have taken out the puppeteer who is creating and controlling the Thralls (zombie like humans who are under a mind control magic)There are quite a few additional POVs in The Bloodforged, and at first this made me hesitant - I am not always a fan of POV switching, and often find myself having the urge to swtich ahead to my preferred characters POV. (cough cough, A Song of Ice and Fire. I rarely encountered this with The Bloodforged, and for that I am grateful.
I was especially happy with Riggard "Rig" Black's POV. Over all I just love his character, and the battle scenes that ensued in his chapters, as well as some pretty good romance.
There is a lot going on in this book - Alix and Erik are attempting a near-fatal mission through the mountains to reach out to one Kingdom for support in this time of war, while Liam is elsewhere in a tangle of political intrigue. Alix's brother Rig, and commander general to the Aldenian Kingswords is busy using unconventional military tactics in an attempt to outsmart the Oridian Warlord. Not once did I find myself bored, or ready to put this book down.
The battle scenes are extremely well done, as well as all of the politics and much of the world building. I fell for Riggard Black, and found Liam White's character growing on me significantly since meeting him in The Bloodbound. Clearly a lot of research and planning was put into this book.
The only thing that has knocked this down to four stars from me was the Romance. While it had certainly improved from Book 1, where I felt that much of the Romance was abrupt and in need of some development, I still found myself lacking feeling when reading the more intimate sections of this book. That being said, romance does not make or break a book for me and the battles, adventure and twists and turns of the plot were much more important to me.
And the end, my goodness the ending was fantastic. I am so on edge, and so ready to find out what happens next.
Over all four out of five stars awarded to The Bloodforged. If you are a historical fantasy lover like myself, you'll likely enjoy this book as much as I did.