Review: Highly enjoyable
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 3, 2013
Ayianna against her wishes is betrothed to someone she doesn’t even know because her mother and father say it’s for the best. Unbeknownst to them, someone is in the works to destroy everything they have work so hard for.Now Ayianna is on a quest to find her mother and to find out why her father was killed. Joining her is Kael, and Half-elf, Vain, a spoiled prince, and Desmond, Ayianna’s betrothed. As they track against forest and deserts their loyalties and trust are put to the test.Sometimes secrets kept do nothing but turn you against those who would do anything for you.This book was easy to catch my attention and hold it. I always love a great adventure and always jump for the chance to read one. This is an adventure unlike any other. Ayianna a half-elf disguised as a human wants to find out why her father was murdered and why her mother was kidnapped. She went through many things to get were she is now. Is she better off than when she started? NO! To me she gets weak and then strong. It was a roller coaster with her. One minute I’m thinking she is finally going to get a backbone and by the end of the story my hope fled. She is too insecure. Hopefully she will be able to hold her own in the next one since she is going to be getting some training. During the whole quest she only managed to get hurt. That doesn’t mean I didn’t like the story, on the contrary I loved it. The forest was the best part of the book. No one ever comes out alive! DUN DUN DUN!!!! It was very creepy, the forest was always trying to sway them from their path and there were dangerous creatures after them all the time. IT WAS AWESOME!!!! The desert was pretty cool too though. There are other types of people in the book like mermaids and there are terms I’m pretty sure I’ve already forgotten but I know what the story was about and I grasped everything. Nothing was confusing. Oh that reminds me it’s told in multiple povs, Ayianna being the main one though. It was nice knowing what the others thought because they are so closed off.Ayianna was for the most part a pretty interesting character. She just ticked me off with not standing up for herself. Kael told her she had choices but she chooses to ignore them. UGH She doesn’t like Desmond and since she doesn’t think anyone else will love what she has become she is going to marry him. What kind of logic is that? She doesn’t know what other people will think. I wish she would speak up and tell people how she really feels. I looking forward to the next one to see how she manages the mess she got herself into.Kael was my favorite character in the book. He didn’t hold anything back except his emotions of course. He is closed off from everyone and has a reason to. He lost people he loved as well and swears never to love again. My heart ached for him. I just wanted to snuggle his sexy elf self. He was very complex and I could tell by the end of the story that he was starting to come through, but Ayiaana had to go and mess it up. Please let him be more open in the next one. I want him to tell everyone how he feels as well. He doesn’t always have to be the strong one.Desmond is of those characters in which you can’t help but to like/hate. You never know what is going on through their mind. For the most part he seems like a great guy but I had a gut feeling he was up to no good. Not to mention Kael doesn’t like him and I trust Kael over everybody in the book. Desmond just doesn’t bode well for me.Overall: A highly enjoyable quest with everyone hiding secrets, secrets that could change everything.4 Stars