Author: Heather Brewer
Rating: 4/5
Genre: fantasy
Recommend To: fans of Graceling
Yes. Just yes. I was feeling depressed at the lack of kick butt fighter women in the recent novels I had read. Just in general I missed old fashioned sword fighting and monsters leaping out every five feet. Sometimes, you just need some good old action with romance tossed in. I definitely got it. This book just made me plain happy. The writing was not overly complicated, but the story was just plain fun.
Kaya, the protagonist, is born a Healer in a secret world of Barrons and Healers. But she wants to fight, like a Barron. She is forced to go to the school and take part in the life her parents ran away from to protect her. Now she must protect them, and be the docile Healer everyone expects her to be. Except.....she wants to fight. So she asks the guy she gets bound to (who literally happens to be the most boring guy on the planet, even if he is fictional. Honestly it's no competition between Trayton and Darius because Trayton put me to sleep.) He says no, so she asks the head trainer, who might be overly mysterious, but that's okay sometimes, because he is an awesome fighter. Oh and an awesome bodyguard named Maddox, I really liked her sarcasm and brisk nature.
Okay, so this whole love triangle business. Usually, it drives me crazy. And I think it will in the next book. But in this one, for a long time, I was more focused on the inequalities between Healer and Barrons. In fact, it was so well done, I was just plain terked off. Just, gahhhh, all the rules and protocol and subservience! It made me MAD. Trayton constantly saying he would protect her, and that Healers were helpless. Yeah, he's dead to me. And so props to this book for addressing one of the societal issues that never really goes away.
So here are my final statements. It had great action, societal issues, awesome evil Graplar beastie things, a pretty cute guy (no, not Trayton), awesome female warrior mojo, and fun characters. But it lacked complex plot lines and romance that was thought out. Plus, the name of the book totally gave the end away, even if the concept of Soulbinding and Binding was cool.
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