So this is actually book one in the Empirium trilogy and I read an ARC that my friend gave me. I was really excited by this book but unfortunately I can only give this 3 out of 5 stars.
My Rating: ★★★
Follows two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world...or doom it.
When assassins ambush her best friend, the crown prince, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing her ability to perform all seven kinds of elemental magic. The only people who should possess this extraordinary power are a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light and salvation and a queen of blood and destruction. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven trials to test her magic. If she fails, she will be executed...unless the trials kill her first.
A thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a mere fairy tale to bounty hunter Eliana Ferracora. When the Undying Empire conquered her kingdom, she embraced violence to keep her family alive. Now, she believes herself untouchable--until her mother vanishes without a trace, along with countless other women in their city. To find her, Eliana joins a rebel captain on a dangerous mission and discovers that the evil at the heart of the empire is more terrible than she ever imagined.
As Rielle and Eliana fight in a cosmic war that spans millennia, their stories intersect, and the shocking connections between them ultimately determine the fate of their world--and of each other.
When assassins ambush her best friend, the crown prince, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing her ability to perform all seven kinds of elemental magic. The only people who should possess this extraordinary power are a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light and salvation and a queen of blood and destruction. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven trials to test her magic. If she fails, she will be executed...unless the trials kill her first.
A thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a mere fairy tale to bounty hunter Eliana Ferracora. When the Undying Empire conquered her kingdom, she embraced violence to keep her family alive. Now, she believes herself untouchable--until her mother vanishes without a trace, along with countless other women in their city. To find her, Eliana joins a rebel captain on a dangerous mission and discovers that the evil at the heart of the empire is more terrible than she ever imagined.
As Rielle and Eliana fight in a cosmic war that spans millennia, their stories intersect, and the shocking connections between them ultimately determine the fate of their world--and of each other.
I had very high hopes for this book after reading the blurb on Goodreads a few months ago, and while they didn’t completely disappoint, it did take me a while to actually be pulled into the story. I actually liked how the chapters went between the two main characters, Rielle and Eliana, the story wouldn’t have worked with just one of them. The going back and forth between characters was actually one of the things that kept me reading.
I think the main reason it's only getting a 3/5 from me is because the first third of the book is quite confusing, it was only once I started to understand and piece together who Eliana was that I started enjoying it. I do find that book one in a series can often be like that so this is in no way against the author, it's more of a general thing I've noticed with some series. I also never felt like I really connected to Eliana until near the end of this book, so I’m hoping I enjoy her chapters more in book two and three.
Book one has left a lot of unanswered question so I will definitely be reading the other books in the trilogy when they’re released, especially after how this one has been left, but I can’t bring myself to give this more than 3/5 stars.
No comments:
Post a Comment