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A review by galaxiesofbooks
A River of Royal Blood by Amanda Joy
3.0
i don't even know where to start with this book lmaoo anyway, i felt like this is a great story and i will continue with the series cuz it is such a unique north african inspired fantasy novel about sisters who are enemies and crowns and magic and betrayals and lies and so on!
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what i loved about this book was the magic system. i don't think i ever read about magic like the one in this story. we have humans, bloodkin, khimaer & fey. all of them with different abilities (except humans i believe? i forgot lmaoo) and it was so fascinating!
i also enjoyed the friendships between Baccha, Aketo, Mirabel, Falun, Anali and Eva - they were a whole gang tryna make it thru till Eva's nameday lool.
i was also fascinated by Eva's relationship with her father, however little we had of it 💜
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what i did not enjoy was mostly the romance. at first i liked it cuz it was sarcastic and Eva was playing hard to get yk & then it just flopped by becoming so cheesy... like, nooo pls there's too much sugar in it :(
and the story itself was lacking more plot to it.. like, nothing really important happened. only few things came out that i didn't expect, but overall nothing really changed.
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i do recommend this for readers who want to try fantasy genre, but as an avid fantasy reader myself, it didn't impress me. it was good, but not my favorite xx
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what i loved about this book was the magic system. i don't think i ever read about magic like the one in this story. we have humans, bloodkin, khimaer & fey. all of them with different abilities (except humans i believe? i forgot lmaoo) and it was so fascinating!
i also enjoyed the friendships between Baccha, Aketo, Mirabel, Falun, Anali and Eva - they were a whole gang tryna make it thru till Eva's nameday lool.
i was also fascinated by Eva's relationship with her father, however little we had of it 💜
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what i did not enjoy was mostly the romance. at first i liked it cuz it was sarcastic and Eva was playing hard to get yk & then it just flopped by becoming so cheesy... like, nooo pls there's too much sugar in it :(
and the story itself was lacking more plot to it.. like, nothing really important happened. only few things came out that i didn't expect, but overall nothing really changed.
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i do recommend this for readers who want to try fantasy genre, but as an avid fantasy reader myself, it didn't impress me. it was good, but not my favorite xx