I wanted to love\u00a0Heir of Prophecy<\/em>, but it just wasn\u2019t for me unfortunately. Partly the drop, comes too soon and I had a difficult time connecting to the world. Keep reading this book review of\u00a0Heir of Prophecy\u00a0<\/em>for my full thoughts.<\/p>\n She\u2019s a woman bound by fate, torn between two prophecies.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n He\u2019s the Prince of the underworld, fated to either claim her or end her life.<\/p>\n Defying destiny is one thing\u2026the heart, another. <\/p>\n Magic has always been at the periphery of Audra\u2019s life. As a human, she knows that magic exists, but it\u2019s as distant as the legends she grew up with. Until one day, magic returns, bringing with it the all too real Fae and upending Audra\u2019s life entirely.<\/p>\n Abducted by a cult of fae Priestesses, Audra finds herself conscripted into a magical war academy. The only hope of surviving this new world filled with guilds, magic, and danger is to band together with a group of her fellow prisoners. Though unlike the others, Audra\u2019s burgeoning magic is erratic and violent\u2014just as the prophecy foretold. She must discover what it means to be the Heir, but time is running out. The Priestesses know the Heir moves among them, and they\u2019re determined to root them out, no matter what it takes.<\/p>\n As she struggles to mask her power, Audra\u2019s plagued by visions of a dark, seductive being with a conflicting truth. He doesn\u2019t want to save the world; he plans to reclaim it.<\/p>\n Now, Audra must choose: become the savior the cult demands or the catalyst the vision promises.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n (Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.) <\/p>\n For me, if you\u2019re going to have a reversal of magic, of something which should never happen, and you don\u2019t set it up soon enough or strong enough, when the drop happens it rings hollow. If we don\u2019t know yet enough about the world, we don\u2019t feel that same sense of betrayal or shock when the world turns out to be something else. And so in\u00a0Heir of Prophecy,\u00a0<\/em>we feel this drop, this reversal so early on that it doesn\u2019t even seem that shocking? And for me, when so much of the plot revolves around it, it makes it hard to feel the stakes. There\u2019s\u00a0so<\/strong> much of the world to take in when we \u201crealize\u201d it\u2019s more than we thought, that it feels like whiplash.<\/p>\n (Disclaimer: Some of the links below are affiliate links. For more information you can look at the Policy page. If you\u2019re uncomfortable with that, know you can look up the book on any of the sites below to avoid the link)<\/p>\n Additionally, the early multiple perspective shifts make it even harder to get a handle on what\u2019s happening. It\u2019s this weird balance of the pacing feeling slow, but also there being so much information on the world front that it feels like just a lot of information. It\u2019s also another situation that I\u2019ve been experiencing lately where the character \u2018cares and loves\u2019 their family and it\u2019s used as a motivation factor, but feels more like a telling versus showing. For me, this just wasn\u2019t for me. Once the elements come together, it does get more cohesive around the halfway mark, but for me if I was imagining myself as a reader not a reviewer, that\u2019s a bit hard to promise.<\/p>\n Find\u00a0Heir of Prophecy\u00a0<\/em>on Goodreads<\/a>, Storygraph<\/a>, Blackwells<\/a>, & Libro. fm<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I wanted to love\u00a0Heir of Prophecy, but it just wasn\u2019t for me unfortunately. Partly the drop, comes too soon and I had a difficult time connecting to the world. Keep reading this book review of\u00a0Heir of Prophecy\u00a0for my full thoughts. Summary She\u2019s a woman bound by fate, torn between two prophecies. He\u2019s the Prince of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7052341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99697,98101],"tags":[214695,7813,20698,3749,214696],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7052340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews-2","category-fantasy","tag-analeigh","tag-heir","tag-prophecy","tag-review","tag-sbrana"],"yoast_head":"\nSummary<\/h2>\n
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