A Heart of Blood and Ashes by Milla Vane 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Fully fleshed out characters with nuanced motivations ✔️ Alliances and oaths ✔️ World-building that invites the reader to dive in and *stay* within the pages of the story ✔️ A Warrior-Queen that learns to trust her strengths and take charge of her future✔️ A vengeance seeking warrior that learns what it means to have the heart of a King. ✔️ Lessons shared, battles fought, and an epic love story ✔️ I finished an amazing book today and couldn't wait to talk about it, so I made my teen listen to me go on and on. Then I immediately snapped a pic so I could come rave about the book on IG. Y'all, this one was EPIC! It's on my Top Reads of 2020 list and I've already bought the audio version, too. Seriously, this is one of those books that I couldn't stand to set aside for long, but then found myself loathe to pick up for fear I'd read too fast and the story would be over. I experienced every emotion alongside these characters, re-reading passages over and over again until I just HAD to turn the page. What. An. Ending.👏👏👏 Without a doubt, my favorite character is Yvenne. She embodied such cunning and strength, and her ability to embrace joy and hope, in spite of the suffering she endured, was everything this reader wanted from the heroine of such an epic story. Absolutely superb storytelling! I need the second book now, but since it won't be out for a few months, I'll console myself with re-reading this one again and again. A huge THANK YOU to @tessabaileyisanauthor for bringing this book to my attention! #readwhatmakesyouhappy #mimireads2020 #mimiskeepercollection #millavane #berkleypub #aheartofbloodandashes #booksofig #books #reader #fantasy https://www.instagram.com/p/B_NwQOEgJQz/?igshid=affk31qf7wlf
