by Andrea K. Höst
wow do I not find anyone in this engaging. like being dropped into someone's fanfic in a fandom you don't read but she's not pulling it off.
wow do I not find anyone in this engaging. like being dropped into someone's fanfic in a fandom you don't read but she's not pulling it off.
Darest is a country in decline. When it still had Rathens and Rathen Champions, it was powerful, but it's been two hundred years since the death of the last Rathen. It's a shock to everyone when the Rathen Rose reacts to Soren, a nobody in the court, and proclaims her the newest Rathen Champion. Sor...
Several people said they didn’t like this one as much as Host’s other books, but I quite enjoyed it! I like creepy fairies, and also morally or perhaps politically ambiguous characters. (Yes, Aristide is my favorite.) Host’s theme of “young woman thrust into difficult circumstances” is just as prese...
4/5; 4 stars; A-In all the books I've read by this author I really like her female protagonist. This book is no different. Soren Armitage is a woman pushed into a difficult role by a magic so vast and old, no one really understands how it works. Named the Champion of the Rose, she is sent on a q...
Soren's position at the Darest court is a joke. She was proclaimed Champion of the Rose, the protector of the Rathen kings--but there have been no Rathen kings in Darest for two hundred years. Her status as ignored non-entity abruptly changes when a blooming rose appears in the palace's magical gar...
Sometimes, when I feel as if I’m drowning in a sea of haven’t-I-read-this-before fantasy, the only antidote is some Andrea K Höst. Her work is original, intelligent and quirky, and reassures me that there are some authors out there who aren’t simply recycling the tired old tropes.The premise here is...
Looking forward to reading more about this world.
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