Princess Aurelia is a prisoner to her crown and the heir that nobody wants. Surrounded by spirits and banned from using her blood-magic, Aurelia flees her country after a devastating assassination attempt. To escape her fate, Aurelia disguises herself as a commoner in a new land and discovers a happiness her crown has never allowed. As she forges new bonds and perfects her magic, she begins to fall for a man who is forbidden to rule beside her. But the ghosts that haunt Aurelia refuse to abandon her, and she finds herself succumbing to their call as they expose a nefarious plot that only she can defeat. Will she be forced to choose between the weight of the crown and the freedom of her new life?
Jan’s Review
This is an interesting story i heard it suppose to based on a grim fairy tale i never read so i just gonna set that aside and review this as the story itself. We have two kingdoms Renalt and Achleva one which is ruled by the tribunal who hates magic and witches and the other where magic is less controlled. Our main character is destined to be wed to the sickly prince of Achleva.
Here where the story starts to pick up our princess runs away and uncovers a plot that will tear both kingdoms a part. Also mixed up in all this is a mysterious plant called blood leaf. Oh and our main princess can see and hear ghosts. I ended up rating this a solid 3 due to the fact that i not really sure that i sold on how the blood leaf works. I did get the whole one kingdom taking over another one by means of murdering and taking down some magic wall. It just was not solidly portrayed to me what the point of it was. It can heal death or poison someone. Also i was quite confused on the whole invitations that you got over the wall but still you got zapped really bad by the magic. In all this need up being a middle of the road read for me.
