But the more secrets Aurora uncovers about him, the more a future with him frightens her. He’ll guarantee her spot as the next queen and be the champion her people need to remain safe. At first, the prince seems like the perfect solution to all her problems. To keep her secret and save her crown, Aurora’s mother arranges for her to marry a dark and brooding Stormling prince from another kingdom. But she’s yet to show any trace of the magic she’ll need to protect her people. She’s intelligent and brave and honorable. As the sole heir of Pavan, Aurora’s been groomed to be the perfect queen. Long ago, the ungifted pledged fealty and service to her family in exchange for safe haven, and a kingdom was carved out from the wildlands and sustained by magic capable of repelling the world’s deadliest foes.

“In a land ruled and shaped by violent magical storms, power lies with those who control them.Īurora Pavan comes from one of the oldest Stormling families in existence. All I can say is that I wanted to like it and yet, I can’t say I actually did. I don’t think I have the appropriate words to put into sentences that could actually create coherent meaning for what I felt while reading Roar, the first instalment of the Stormheart series, by Cora Carmack. I wanted this post to be different, believe me, I really did! But when you read a book that seems like it has so much potential in the beginning, with a kickass princess, two kickass princes, hundreds of secrets that have the power to crumble empires and a fantastic realm where magical storms have the power to destroy cities and people’s lives, and all of a sudden this sort-of-world-building stops so abruptly, only to start building a different sort of story, with many more characters, a too annoying male lead, a squad that doesn’t actually seem like a lockstep team, and a villain we don’t actually get the chance to meet throughout the whole novel… Well, all you can feel is… MEH!

Hello awesome creatures and welcome to the first book review, to the first bibliorambling of 2018!

Reign by cora carmack