The Songbird and the Heart of Stone
Reviews
First half of the book could be slow and confusing at times, but the second half was incredible. I loved getting to know Mische more, and I looooove Asar.
this was difficult to follow and visualize at times, but i love mische and asar <3
Highlights
Asar.
My blood went cold.
The name was the missing plece, snapping my foggy memories ofthe legends into place.
Asar Voldari. The Wraith Warden.
The stories seemed more betitting a myth than a man, even by the gruesome standards of vampire lore. They all ran together in my memory, grim tales of torture and spycraft, bloody tasks accomplished by bloodier means. Every king has someone to do their dirty work.
I hadn't heard him spoken of in a long, long time. Gods, Id just assumed he was long dead by now, or else that he'd never really existed at all.
If this was my savior, maybe death was the real mercy.
She would follow him until the end of it all, just as all the others had.
He was right. For a time.
But such a boring story that would be.
This is the tale of how a chosen one falls. She does it screaming, clawing for her old life with broken fingernails. She does it slowly, over the course of decades.
And in the end, she takes the whole forsaken world with her.
Or perhaps gods, like mortals, are simply mesmerized by their own damnation.
Because he paused then, peering through the veil between worlds, at this little girl.
The little girl, in turn, peered back.
It always begins like this. In times of great darkness, humans crawl to light like lies to the gleaming silver of a spider's silk. These are the souls that gods feast upon. No one loves you more than someone who has no one else.
This is the tale of how a chosen one falls. Like most legends, it is unremarkable at its start