Of Blood and Bone
Author: Nora Robert
Series: Chronicles of the One #2
Genre: Fantasy, Dystopian
Original Publication date: December 2018
Bood Description: They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed.
Fallon Swift, approaching her thirteenth birthday, barely knows the world that existed before—the city where her parents lived, now in ruins and reclaimed by nature since the Doom sickened and killed billions. Traveling anywhere is a danger, as vicious gangs of Raiders and fanatics called Purity Warriors search for their next victim. Those like Fallon, in possession of gifts, are hunted—and the time is coming when her true nature, her identity as The One, can no longer be hidden.
In a mysterious shelter in the forest, her training is about to begin under the guidance of Mallick, whose skills have been honed over centuries. She will learn the old ways of healing; study and spar; encounter faeries and elves and shifters; and find powers within herself she never imagined. And when the time is right, she will take up the sword, and fight. For until she grows into the woman she was born to be, the world outside will never be whole again.
Thoughts:
This is the second book.
The first one had very interesting magic, but not very explained.
Since the start of the book we had the shadow f a prophecy very not enough details, so in the second book knowing we were going to get more information about the baby who everyone had foreseen was making me anxious in the best way.
It had less action than I expected. It covers Falon growing up in a few leaps in time. She is growing up with her parents, siblings, it has the best example of a stepfather I have seen in fantasy, usually, the step-parents or he children from the previous relationship usually do not get accepted too well into the family or even if the family tries to include them they feel like outsiders. This showed a great family representation, I really love that.
We have the classic hero growing up knowing something great is expected, but they are far from perfect, Falcon has to learn, she had to handle the pressure of knowing there are great consequences that will come from her future decisions and actions. She has a normal reaction, she faces issues accepting and struggles, it gives it a very realistic aspect to the situation.
We have a few things I like, great family, a few battles here and there, not very action-packed but it has few thrown in to make it interesting, they do make sense but the pace, in general, is slow. Falcon is not fighting yet as I expected we see her still trying to get to the point where she is ready to take on the predicted battle for the world.
There is a small plot twist/surprise as we figure who the bad person is on this installment of the story, it is surprising, we were guided so clearly in a direction that it did felt like a surprise. But it made sense, it didn't feel just thrown in there for kicks.
I really like the characters, not so much the forced relationships-feelings thrown into certain characters, it was forced into them, the people developing feelings and unexplainable lust and longing for people even if they do not know each other and they do not get along in the few interactions they have.
Falon and this boy, yearn for each other yet in the short interactions they have they don't stand the other's attitude, so why?
That was the only issue pretty much, the story was very slow but still we got a lot of character exploration so it felt ok in that way.
This book was used to accomplish:
*Goodreads choice awards 2019.
*Continue series
Series: Chronicles of the One #2
Genre: Fantasy, Dystopian
Original Publication date: December 2018
Bood Description: They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed.
Fallon Swift, approaching her thirteenth birthday, barely knows the world that existed before—the city where her parents lived, now in ruins and reclaimed by nature since the Doom sickened and killed billions. Traveling anywhere is a danger, as vicious gangs of Raiders and fanatics called Purity Warriors search for their next victim. Those like Fallon, in possession of gifts, are hunted—and the time is coming when her true nature, her identity as The One, can no longer be hidden.
In a mysterious shelter in the forest, her training is about to begin under the guidance of Mallick, whose skills have been honed over centuries. She will learn the old ways of healing; study and spar; encounter faeries and elves and shifters; and find powers within herself she never imagined. And when the time is right, she will take up the sword, and fight. For until she grows into the woman she was born to be, the world outside will never be whole again.
Thoughts:
This is the second book.
The first one had very interesting magic, but not very explained.
Since the start of the book we had the shadow f a prophecy very not enough details, so in the second book knowing we were going to get more information about the baby who everyone had foreseen was making me anxious in the best way.
It had less action than I expected. It covers Falon growing up in a few leaps in time. She is growing up with her parents, siblings, it has the best example of a stepfather I have seen in fantasy, usually, the step-parents or he children from the previous relationship usually do not get accepted too well into the family or even if the family tries to include them they feel like outsiders. This showed a great family representation, I really love that.
We have the classic hero growing up knowing something great is expected, but they are far from perfect, Falcon has to learn, she had to handle the pressure of knowing there are great consequences that will come from her future decisions and actions. She has a normal reaction, she faces issues accepting and struggles, it gives it a very realistic aspect to the situation.
We have a few things I like, great family, a few battles here and there, not very action-packed but it has few thrown in to make it interesting, they do make sense but the pace, in general, is slow. Falcon is not fighting yet as I expected we see her still trying to get to the point where she is ready to take on the predicted battle for the world.
There is a small plot twist/surprise as we figure who the bad person is on this installment of the story, it is surprising, we were guided so clearly in a direction that it did felt like a surprise. But it made sense, it didn't feel just thrown in there for kicks.
I really like the characters, not so much the forced relationships-feelings thrown into certain characters, it was forced into them, the people developing feelings and unexplainable lust and longing for people even if they do not know each other and they do not get along in the few interactions they have.
Falon and this boy, yearn for each other yet in the short interactions they have they don't stand the other's attitude, so why?
That was the only issue pretty much, the story was very slow but still we got a lot of character exploration so it felt ok in that way.
This book was used to accomplish:
*Goodreads choice awards 2019.
*Continue series
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