Book #15: Frostblood, by Elly Blake

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This book is criminally underserved by its jacket copy, which makes it look like it's going to be a fairly shallow fantasy with a forbidden love that more eye-roll inducing than anything else.

EXCEPT THEN IT TOTALLY ISN'T.

Blake's use of world-building extends really thoughtfully into religion, prophecy, and politics. She places her fish-hook hints really deftly and then every reveal feels earned. I won, like, ten bets with myself reading this book, and it was AWESOME. The first part is a littttttle draggy, but it turns around really fast, and by the time part two starts, it's flying.

I finished it a couple days ago and I'm STILL super pumped about how the prophecy went down. I can't wait for books 2 and 3!

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I've been reading all your short reviews here down to this one and I've decided to subscribe/follow this blog because it seems like if I'm looking for good SF/fantasy fiction you're an excellent source of pithy, well-written recs - I like how even these sort of bite-size reviews give an impression of what the book is probably like.

I like me some good world-building a lot of the time so I might have to check this one in particular out sometime. :)

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Welcome! :)