December 18, 2023 · Book Review
by Raven Storm
Mari is a mud quarter girl who was reaped into the Seat, the isolated royal enclave ruling over a caste-divided kingdom, and bonded to twin dragon princes, Zion and Zariah, as their mate. Book two picks up with that bond intact but the larger problem still very much alive: the queen who cursed her own bloodline into dragons, and cursed the Noble class into demons as punishment for generations of enslaving Mari’s people, is not going to give up her throne quietly.
What follows is a kingdom in open collapse: a refugee camp full of people who’ve lost everything, a half-brother running an underground refuge for the ones slowly turning into demons, and a mother-queen willing to burn her own city to the ground rather than lose control of it. Mari spends the book trying to hold together a found family that keeps growing even as the people around her keep dying, while the truth about the curse, the queen, and what’s actually still alive underneath the ruined mud quarter gets pulled further into the light with every chapter.
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