Onyx & Ivory by Mindee Arnett (Review #242)

“They call her Traitor Kate. It’s a title Kate Brighton inherited from her father after he tried to assassinate the high king of Rime. Cast out of the nobility, Kate now works for the royal courier service. Only the most skilled ride for the Relay, and only the fastest survive, for when night falls, the nightdrakes - deadly flightless dragons - come out to hunt. Fortunately, Kate has a secret edge: she is a wilder, born with forbidden magic that allows her to influence the minds of animals.

And it’s this magic that leads her to a caravan massacred by drakes in broad daylight - The only survivor Corwin Tormane, the son of the king. Her first love, the boy she swore to forget after he condemned her father to death. With their paths once more entangled, Kate and Corwin must put the past behind them to face this new threat and ann even darker menace stirring in the kingdom.”

Review:

This was an overall decent book. It had all the necessary pieces for a good fantasy: a cool FMC, the privileged vs the oppressed overarching theme, forbidden romance, magic, and of course dragons (flightless ones tho, boo). I think this was a mid level book for me because nothing seemed all that original or unique to me. No twist or turn this story had really took me by surprise.

I want to read the sequel, for sure. I think for one I have read Arnett before and it was - again - mid to me. And I didn’t read the rest of the series to see if the characters developed more. So this time around (since there’s just the one sequel), I’m giving this story a shot to be better.

For the sequel, I want more action. This installment seemed to drag for the majority of the book and only picked up the pace after about 2/3 of the way in. I wanna see Traitor Kate start to take a real active role in this story like she did towards the end. For me, the finale fight scene was where it was at. It was violent and bloodthirsty and really grey for an MC who has been pretty black and white thus far which I love and I want us to delve into that more.

Overall a good read, but I need more from the sequel. I also want more of Master Raith, that man is foiiiiiiiine!!!! Anyways, let me know your own thoughts and feels down below, I’ll see you on the next one!

Want more of Mindee Arnett? Check out The Nightmare Affair!!

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