Name: Mercurial
Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
ISBN: 9781736394304

Naomi Hughes

A disillusioned young bodyguard finds himself falling for the dangerous, magical princess he protects. Meanwhile, his assassin sister plots to kill the princess to free him from her.

Mercurial

Camila Eduarda Vilela Lobianco

The Destroyer is the most feared person in the hole empire. She is fearless, powerful and the youngest sister of the empress. Tal is a believer, he believes that his god will find a way to help the Destroyer end this rigid govern, so he promise to protect her no matter what. The problem is that, in the role of her bodyguard, he starts to hate her and everything she does, how bad and careless she is. But everything changes when an accident happen and the Destroyer forgets who she is and also loses her power and Tal become to fall in love for this girl, that is so kind, but in the end keeps being the one that killed a lot of his people. 

This book is great. This book tells the story in the perspective of the bad person, the villain of the empire. This is actually something that I never read, what makes the experience much better. The writing is fluid, we can read this really fast,. but is also an actually pretty nice book to make you company during occupied days. I read this during my month of finals (I'm from Brazil) and it was something nice to pick up in the end of the day. The story also is a standalone so is nice if you want to read a nice and small fantasy story. I liked a lot of the second characters, specially Tal's sisters' girlfriend and Elodie's sister.

The romance is well paced and well balanced. The feelings progress in a believable way, what's not that common in actual fantasy books.

The only reason I won't give this five stars is that I didn't cried in the end, and I was really hoping this will happen. I know, stupid reason, but I will give this four stars.

Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity of reading this book in exchange of an honest review!

Mercurial

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