A review by amanda_readingnwritinglife
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

adventurous emotional medium-paced

5.0

 

This is my first Sarah J Maas book, and I had no idea it was going to be a romance. :) Or, I guess I should say I didn't know it would be so romance heavy. And it wasn't even that romance heavy. We have two POVs (mostly), which is so refreshing after reading some fantasy books with 5 or more POVs. I love multiple, but sometimes less is more.

Anyway, we meet Bryce who can't seem to catch a break in her life. Things go from kind of bad to horrific pretty quickly and she spends the rest of the novel trying to piece herself and her world back together. Throw in a family member who may not be what he seems, friends who have stopped speaking to her, and a broody fallen-angel, hitman slave who is assigned to guard her, and you have the recipe for a great book.

I laughed and cried reading this, and that is high praise from me. I loved it.