Within the walls of Baalboden, beneath the shadow of the city’s brutal leader, Rachel Adams has a secret. While other girls sew dresses, host dinner parties, and obey their male Protectors, Rachel knows how to survive in the wilderness and deftly wield a sword. When her father, Jared, fails to return from a courier mission and is declared dead, the Commander assigns Rachel a new Protector, her father’s apprentice, Logan—the same boy Rachel declared her love for two years ago, and the same boy who handed her heart right back to her. Left with nothing but fierce belief in her father’s survival, Rachel decides to escape and find him herself. But treason against the Commander carries a heavy price, and what awaits her in the Wasteland could destroy her.
At nineteen, Logan McEntire is many things. Orphan. Outcast. Inventor. As apprentice to the city’s top courier, Logan is focused on learning his trade so he can escape the tyranny of Baalboden. But his plan never included being responsible for his mentor’s impulsive daughter. Logan is determined to protect her, but when his escape plan goes wrong and Rachel pays the price, he realizes he has more at stake than disappointing Jared.
As Rachel and Logan battle their way through the Wasteland, stalked by a monster that can’t be killed and an army of assassins out for blood, they discover romance, heartbreak, and a truth that will incite a war decades in the making.
The way I read it ~
This book caught me by surprise.
Good surprise? Bad surprise?
Meh. I'm not even sure.
What I am sure about is NOT A SINGLE THING IN THIS BOOK WENT HOW I WANTED IT TO GO!!!
Suffice it to say, that isn't necessarily a terrible thing or within my reader-realm of control obviously. But dang it!
There was romance and this chick right here loves the romance. This particular brand of romance was more the 'I love you but you broke my teenage heart followed by awkward degrees of heartache, angst and longing until the day our world changes forever and you realize that you love me too'
What's not no love?
Defiance for me, bordered along the line of love/hate. I hated to love it but I loved to hate it. Confusing right? Exactly!
My spidey-book sense was all over the place.
There were moments I yelled at the characters, shook my fists and all that, I threw my reader to the side a few times in frustration because NOT A SINGLE THING IN THIS BOOK WENT HOW I WANTED IT TO GO!!!
I was outraged! I was disgusted. I was utterly intrigued. Because I didn't stop reading. It drew me in completely. I was baffled while I was in there for sure, but I didn't hate it. I didn't love it either. Could I love it? Meh.
Who knows?
I sure don't.
What do I know?
Good surprise? Bad surprise?
Meh. I'm not even sure.
What I am sure about is NOT A SINGLE THING IN THIS BOOK WENT HOW I WANTED IT TO GO!!!
Suffice it to say, that isn't necessarily a terrible thing or within my reader-realm of control obviously. But dang it!
There was romance and this chick right here loves the romance. This particular brand of romance was more the 'I love you but you broke my teenage heart followed by awkward degrees of heartache, angst and longing until the day our world changes forever and you realize that you love me too'
What's not no love?
Defiance for me, bordered along the line of love/hate. I hated to love it but I loved to hate it. Confusing right? Exactly!
My spidey-book sense was all over the place.
There were moments I yelled at the characters, shook my fists and all that, I threw my reader to the side a few times in frustration because NOT A SINGLE THING IN THIS BOOK WENT HOW I WANTED IT TO GO!!!
I was outraged! I was disgusted. I was utterly intrigued. Because I didn't stop reading. It drew me in completely. I was baffled while I was in there for sure, but I didn't hate it. I didn't love it either. Could I love it? Meh.
Who knows?
I sure don't.
What do I know?
I'll be reading book 2.
Why?
Because I am intrigued.
And also...
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| RATER BLAND: 2 out of 5 Sugar cubes |
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| Reviewed by Leelo |
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