Thornfruit

Thornfruit

Softcover
3.33

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Description

There were two secrets in Varenx House, and Alizhan was one of them.Alizhan can't see faces, but she can read minds. Her mysterious ability leaves her unable to touch or be touched without excruciating pain. Rescued from abandonment and raised by the wealthy and beautiful Iriyat ha-Varensi, Alizhan has grown up in isolation, using her gift to steal secrets from Iriyat's rivals, the ruling class of Laalvur. But Iriyat keeps secrets of her own.When Alizhan discovers that she isn't the only one of her kind, and that a deadly plot threatens everyone like her, there's only one person she can trust.Ev liked having a secret. None of the other girls in the village had a thief-friend.Evreyet Umarsad-"Ev" to her parents and her one friend-longs to be the kind of hero she reads about in books. But the rest of the world feels impossibly far away from her life on a farm outside Laalvur. Ev will never lay eyes on the underground city of Adappyr, the stars of the Nightward Coast, or the venomous medusas that glow in the dark depths of the sea.At least on her weekly trip to the market, Ev gets to see her thief-the strange young woman who slips by her cart and playfully steals a handful of thornfruit. When the thief needs help, Ev doesn't hesitate. Together, they uncover a conspiracy that draws them all over Laalvur and beyond.Thornfruit is book one of The Gardener's Hand.

Book Information

Main Genre
Fantasy
Sub Genre
N/A
Format
Softcover
Pages
354
Price
17.20 €

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3

Liked it, but it lacked a certain something to really make it shine.

4

I don't normally write reviews because I feel like an inarticulate mess but this book deserves a review. At the beginning I was kind of doubtful because I didn't know in what direction it was going and if I'd end up slowly making my way through exposition after exposition and a plot that is completely overpowered by it (which is something that, in my experience, tends to happen often in the fantasy genre). But I was positively surprised and, truth be told, what I most feared in the beginning ended up being one of my favourite aspects of the story: Namely the world building. The world created in Thornfruit brings something refreshingly new to what I've come to expect from fantasy novels and while it admittedly can be quite confusing, I was intrigued by it and wanted to learn more. The language in the story helped too, whether it was just the names or the subtle hints of other languages that exist in the universe, it made the world much more real to me than I'd have expected. And I won't really get into plot or characters, here, I enjoyed both, but that's not why I loved reading this so much. I am also not the most critical reader so someone else might be bothered by things I didn't even notice. But I was captivated and, personally speaking, that's all I really need from a book. So, my final words? Just read it. (If you want to.)

3

Liked it, but it lacked a certain something to really make it shine.

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