So don’t go into this book expecting gay pirates There was a lot of talk pre-release about gay pirates (yay!).existing on the page but never jumping off it I couldn’t care about the characters and their struggles.All of which were used often and did nothing except confuse the hell outta me I thought Grace Loray was a person not a place for a while there.I ended up speed reading the last 150 pages just so I could get it over with

The last 250 pages were just as hard to get through.The first 200 pages were hard to connect with.Every time Argrid was mentioned, my brain decided to pronounce it like Madame Maxime saying ‘Agrid’ in a French accent from Goblet of Fire.First person POV seems to be the standard for many YA novels so it’s always refreshing when that’s not the case Sadly, this one was possibly the most disappointing book of 2018 for me. It has pirates, magic, politics, jail breaks it ticks all the Dana boxes. and what they are willing to become for peace. When Ben’s father, the king, gives him the shocking task of reversing Argrid’s fear of magic, Ben has to decide if one prince can change a devout country-or if he’s building his own pyre.Īs conspiracies arise, Lu, Vex, and Ben will have to decide who they really are. The crown prince of Argrid, he harbors a secret obsession with Grace Loray’s forbidden magic. An expert navigator, he agrees to help Lu find the Argridian-but the truth they uncover could be deadlier than any war.īenat is a heretic. But after Argrid accuses raiders of the diplomat’s abduction, Vex becomes a target. As one of the outlaws called stream raiders who run rampant on Grace Loray, he pirates the island’s magic plants and sells them on the black market. When an Argridian delegate vanishes during peace talks with Grace Loray’s new Council, Argrid demands brutal justice-but Lu suspects something more dangerous is at work.ĭevereux is a pirate. But adjusting to postwar life has not been easy. Five years ago, she helped the magic-rich island of Grace Loray overthrow its oppressor, Argrid, a country ruled by religion.

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