MY ⭐️ RATING: 4.5/5
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Follow the law and you’ll stay safe. But what if the law betrays you?
It all started with the girl from the river: mutilated, tattooed, murdered. Tashué couldn’t help but look for answers and in the process, he uncovered the ugly truths being hidden by the very law he used to believe in-the law of the Authority.
Now he’s fighting for his life. Mere survival isn’t enough; he desperately wants to save his son from the Authority, and he wants revolution. At any cost.
Davik Kaine has been gathering power under everyone’s noses. Ruthless, ambitious, with a rebel army backing him, he wants revolution, too. He’s probably the only person powerful enough to protect Tashué from the looming implosion of the political field. And he’s the only person with the connections to save Jason.
He may also be responsible for the death of the girl from the river.
Is making peace with Davik worth it, if it saves Tashue’s son from the Authority?
If Tashué plays along with what Davik wants, can Tashué get retribution for the girl from the river?
MY REVIEW
A Legacy of Brick and Bone is a strong sequel! It’s dark, emotional and tense with incredibly flawed characters that Matar delves into deeply and does a fantastic job of developing the characters even further. Even though she’s not one of the main POV characters, Ceridwen is easily my favorite character, and maybe the narration by Felicity Munroe plays a part in that. I love the voice that she uses for Ceridwen, and I could listen to a book with that chosen voice all day lol. I also love the narration by Paul Woodson when he’s voicing the male voices in the book. I love that there are two narrators doing the work in this series, but also, it can be confusing at times to hear one narrator voice a character one way and the other a different way, despite that, the narration is still done very well!
The Dominion feels so real, and the story is written so well, but unlike the real world, Matar created a world where polyamory or “love who you love” is actually accepted by all, which the real world would be in a better place if we could do the same. But don’t let that make you think this world isn’t the bleakest of bleak, the hate for people with talent, which is basically a form of racism, shows just how dark the world truly is. Nobody is safe from the grimness of the world and each character has a lot that they have to go through, with twists galore and not knowing who to trust will keep the readers head on a swivel.
“This is how the world works,” Jason scoffed.
“We’re all meat for someone else to consume, and we decide how many pieces of ourselves we’re willing to give away to survive. It’s not about what I should and shouldn’t have to do
-it’s the reality here. We shouldn’t have to register, either. We shouldn’t have to decide between different kinds of torture and enslavement. Compliance is torture, the Rift is torture, a life of running and hiding and lying is torture. This is the world we live in.
‘Should’ is fucking meaningless.”
Like the world feeling so real, the characters feel just as genuine, and with 7 POV’s, the reader gets to see a lot of the world and stories from different angles. The main POV’s of Tashué, Ishmael, Lorne, Stella, Illea, Ozra and Jason are all fantastic, I didn’t dislike any of them, but as stated earlier, I did enjoy scenes with Ceridwen more than any of them, just because she’s so innocent and everything she said was just so cute. But with that, there was one particular scene that will stick with me forever, and that was the death of enquiry officer Del. Ok, maybe I’m being a bit biased on this since the author named this character after me, so I was very happy to see how my character not only died, but put up a fight doing it!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I’m not a fan of reading romance, but after reading The Legacy of the Brightwash, I knew what I was already walking into with book 2 and what Matar is able to do by mixing in information within some romantic scenes made them a point to read. There were some points where you got to see and understand more about the character because of those particular scenes and what they needed to do to take advantage of their situation. While I’m still not a fan of romance while reading, Matar makes it a little easier to process with the way she handles it… that’s a compliment!
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