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Blade of Ash by C.F.E. Black
4.0
◦ I've received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review ◦
The book begins with Frederick (Red) who just lost his father and instead of having a moment to grieve he needs to find his sorcerer and do the binding process. Or so he thought because what he thought all his life about the protector behind his father's back is about to change.
Blade of Ash has been a nice story, I really enjoyed the plot, the magic system, some of the characters and the overall pace of the book was just good.
The characters I’ve enjoyed some of them. Red at the beginning and most of the book for me personally was very annoying, he acted like a very young and dumb kid who would blame others for every single thing instead of accepting that sometimes you can’t do much than what’s in your powers, I do wish that in the next book he will grow up because he is an important part of the story and at this moment I’m not his biggest fan.
Seb on the other hand I find him extremely funny and his hate for goats is just hilarious. Alyana felt to be the grown-up in this story, her power, her femminity, and the way she wear herself were just amazing. I loved seeing her powerful even when she was at her weakest.
The relationship between Red and Alyana I wished it would’ve been different, they’re sort of enemies to lovers but at the same time their relationship is built on distrust because even towards the end of the book Red didn’t trust Alyana and still blamed her for his father death – and the way they kind of just slipped in love didn’t quite made sense for me because he was pretty rude towards her. I do hope Red will redeem himself in the next book so we can get a really amazing love story between the two of them.
The magic system was really unique and amazing. The more lies the people would tell the darker their Truthwell will become, the truthful they were the better everything will be and their magic became stronger. The balance between good and bad was so fine that even the biggest sorcerer could fall into temptation.
The book is full of details and descriptions which at times felt a little bit too clunky and overwhelming for me, the read, in general, is very easy and fast-paced. Overall I enjoyed the book and I’ll definitely keep reading the next one.
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The book begins with Frederick (Red) who just lost his father and instead of having a moment to grieve he needs to find his sorcerer and do the binding process. Or so he thought because what he thought all his life about the protector behind his father's back is about to change.
Blade of Ash has been a nice story, I really enjoyed the plot, the magic system, some of the characters and the overall pace of the book was just good.
The characters I’ve enjoyed some of them. Red at the beginning and most of the book for me personally was very annoying, he acted like a very young and dumb kid who would blame others for every single thing instead of accepting that sometimes you can’t do much than what’s in your powers, I do wish that in the next book he will grow up because he is an important part of the story and at this moment I’m not his biggest fan.
Seb on the other hand I find him extremely funny and his hate for goats is just hilarious. Alyana felt to be the grown-up in this story, her power, her femminity, and the way she wear herself were just amazing. I loved seeing her powerful even when she was at her weakest.
The relationship between Red and Alyana I wished it would’ve been different, they’re sort of enemies to lovers but at the same time their relationship is built on distrust because even towards the end of the book Red didn’t trust Alyana and still blamed her for his father death – and the way they kind of just slipped in love didn’t quite made sense for me because he was pretty rude towards her. I do hope Red will redeem himself in the next book so we can get a really amazing love story between the two of them.
The magic system was really unique and amazing. The more lies the people would tell the darker their Truthwell will become, the truthful they were the better everything will be and their magic became stronger. The balance between good and bad was so fine that even the biggest sorcerer could fall into temptation.
The book is full of details and descriptions which at times felt a little bit too clunky and overwhelming for me, the read, in general, is very easy and fast-paced. Overall I enjoyed the book and I’ll definitely keep reading the next one.
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