Frostblood Saga
Young Adult Fiction
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
January 17, 2017
Audiobook
384
The first in a page-turning young adult series about a world where flame and ice are mortal enemies--but together create a power that could change everything. Seventeen-year-old Ruby is a fireblood who must hide her powers of heat and flame from the cruel frostblood ruling class that wants to destroy all that are left of her kind. So when her mother is killed for protecting her and rebel frostbloods demand her help to kill their rampaging king, she agrees. But Ruby's powers are unpredictable, and she's not sure she's willing to let the rebels and an infuriating (yet irresistible) young man called Arcus use her as their weapon. All she wants is revenge, but before they can take action, Ruby is captured and forced to fight for her life in tournaments that pit fireblood prisoners against frostblood champions. Now she has only one chance to destroy the maniacal ruler who has taken everything from her and from the icy young man she has come to love.
WrensReads Review:
This was typical for me.
Things were really predictable and it’s been done.
Typical girl has rare power, typical girl has a big, horrible thing happen (like a family death), typical girl teams up with broody man with big dark secrets and his teams of rebels, typical girl falls for broody boy and broody boy falls for typical girl even though they both didn’t plan it. Broody boy makes rash decisions and typical girl makes rash decisions completely forgetting about the power play at hand and only caring for each other. Things end on a happy-like-well-kind-of note and now we wait a year for the next book to get more predictable things for typical girl and broody boy.
Oh and there is going to be a love triangle or two, mark my words.
I mean, there was seriously nothing wrong with this book. It held my attention okay and the characters were a little too flat for my taste, but I have read a lot worse. I think this would be a great book for someone getting into the fantasy side of young adult or someone who just has a unquenching love for the genre itself. I just need more from the characters and a twist that makes me fall out of my chair and I didn’t get that out of this book.
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