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A review by books_ergo_sum
Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent
adventurous
emotional
slow-paced
5.0
This author is single-handedly reinvigorating my love of fantasy romance 🥰
I used to be a major fantasy lover. But then, my tastes started to change.. the Chosen One characters were too flat, the world they were fighting against too simple, and the romance plots way way too tame.
Except, these characters were amazing! It’s not just that they had flaws or were morally grey, it’s that each one of their personality traits sat on a knife’s edge between good and bad. And they were so well-conceived and complementary. I feel like so much thought went in to them and how they would play off each other, especially our two MCs and their romance, and it really paid off.
And I loved how this author really ‘went there’ with the fantasy world and politics. We had all the fun stuff—different types of magic users, a magic school, and baddy battles—but this setting also had a ton of grit. It was complicated, morally grey, and extremely compelling.
Plus the writing was just so good? Like, for most of the book, the FMC was speaking in her second language and ~you could tell~. I was really blown away by how well written all the scenes were, how the story built, the timing of reveals, just all of it!
To be fair, the romance plot in this book was much sweeter than the other book I just read from this author (The Serpent and the Wings of Night). If you want something hornier, go for that one. But if you want more fantasy vibes, this was an excellent beginning to a adult fantasy romance series!
I used to be a major fantasy lover. But then, my tastes started to change.. the Chosen One characters were too flat, the world they were fighting against too simple, and the romance plots way way too tame.
Except, these characters were amazing! It’s not just that they had flaws or were morally grey, it’s that each one of their personality traits sat on a knife’s edge between good and bad. And they were so well-conceived and complementary. I feel like so much thought went in to them and how they would play off each other, especially our two MCs and their romance, and it really paid off.
And I loved how this author really ‘went there’ with the fantasy world and politics. We had all the fun stuff—different types of magic users, a magic school, and baddy battles—but this setting also had a ton of grit. It was complicated, morally grey, and extremely compelling.
Plus the writing was just so good? Like, for most of the book, the FMC was speaking in her second language and ~you could tell~. I was really blown away by how well written all the scenes were, how the story built, the timing of reveals, just all of it!
To be fair, the romance plot in this book was much sweeter than the other book I just read from this author (The Serpent and the Wings of Night). If you want something hornier, go for that one. But if you want more fantasy vibes, this was an excellent beginning to a adult fantasy romance series!