Book: Broken
Souls and Bones
Author: LJ
Andrews
Pages: 476
Date(s)
Read: May 19th, 2025 to July 9th, 2025
Date
Published: April 29th, 2025
Rating: 4/5
Genre: Fantasy
Characters: 4/5
Writing style: 4/5
Story: 3/5
Ending: 4/5
Cover: 5/5
Format: Hard Cover
Date Bought: May 16th, 2025
Book Cost: $25.06
Review:
Broken
Souls and Bones is a good novel with lots of action and romance but it's not
without its problems.
In this
novel we follow Lyra, a rare melder who is whisked away to another kingdom to
meld for the king. Her and her friends learn to adjust to their new kingdom
while finding allies, making enemies, and trying to survive. Lyra becomes
embroiled in a steamy romance with the one man she should hate, Roark.
While fun
and fast paced with likable characters and your typical tropes such as found
family and enemies to lovers I felt this novel could have been more coherent.
At times
both the story and magic systems feel like a convoluted mess. A lot more
clarity would have gone a long way. The fact that Roark can't speak and has to
use sign language is an interesting detail and I like the representation but
everyone understands everything he's trying to say like he's having a normal
out loud conversation which makes me wonder what the point was. I also felt
that at times, more often than not, the romance feels forced and contrived.
These two are drawn to each other but we aren't given reasons why they really
fall for one another, it's as if personality doesn't matter.
I know this
comes off as harsh but I don't mean to be. I did really enjoy this novel, it
was a fun fast paced book that had me constantly going back for more. The main
characters were easy to love and the side romance is compelling. What this
novel does well, it does very well and no matter what you will be entertained
but I think there's a bit that could have been improved on.
If you're
looking for a fun norse inspired romantasy this will do the trick, if you're
looking for a romance with a deep soulful connection between the two lead
characters you might want to look elsewhere because while this is technically
enemies to lovers it's more insta love than anything.
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