Name: Blade & Rose
Rating: 3.444444444444445 (9 reviews)
ISBN: 9780999485415

Miranda Honfleur

Elemental mage Rielle must choose whether to save her best friend and the beleaguered kingdom, or the love of her life. A tale of magic, adventure, and romance.

Blade & Rose

Megan Williams

Really fun start to a sure to be interesting series. The author did a great job of creating intrigue throughout this novel and I can't wait to see how the characters will grow and develop. 

I found the comparisons to Anne Bishop novels (given in the description of the novel) was a little off. When you make a comparison to an author who has such dark and captivating books this creates a certain expectation that I didn't really see within this novel. I was expecting darker characters and a vastly different world than was presented. I think the comparison to a Sarah J. Maas novel a little more accurate and I feel like fans of Maas will definitely enjoy this read. 

I felt it necessary to mention these comparisons so readers know what to expect going into the novel and therefore the series. I did enjoy the Blade & Rose, but I was a little discouraged that I didn't see more themes like those in novels by Anne Bishop so I just wanted to point this discrepancy out.

Angel Myers

I received an ARC of this story through Hidden Gems and this is my honest and voluntary review.
This book promises everything I love in a fantasy novel, however it fell a little short on delivery for me. Mostly because the beginning of the book is so confusing. The reader is thrown in the midst of the action without any background on who's who and what's what and I was just left wondering what the heck was going on. This is definitely a story that could have benefited greatly from a prologue. Once I made it through the first few chapters, and things finally started to make sense, this was a great story, though it does end on a cliffhanger! Bring on book 2!

Blade & Rose

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