The Bird and the Sword (The Bird and the Sword Chronicles #1) by Amy Harmon

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The Bird and the Sword (The Bird and the Sword Chronicles #1) by Amy Harmon Published May 6th 2016 by CreateSpace 352 pages | Goodreads

Description: ❝Swallow, Daughter, pull them in, those words that sit upon your lips. Lock them deep inside your soul, hide them ‘til they’ve time to grow. Close your mouth upon the power, curse not, cure not, ‘til the hour.

You won’t speak and you won’t tell, you won’t call on heav’n or hell. You will learn and you will thrive. Silence, Daughter. Stay alive. The day my mother was killed, she told my father I wouldn’t speak again, and she told him if I died, he would die too. Then she predicted the king would trade his soul and lose his son to the sky.

My father has a claim to the throne, and he is waiting in the shadows for all of my mother’s words to come to pass. He wants desperately to be king, and I just want to be free. But freedom will require escape, and I’m a prisoner of my mother’s curse and my father’s greed. I can’t speak or make a sound, and I can’t wield a sword or beguile a king.

In a land purged of enchantment, love might be the only magic left, and who could ever love . . . a bird?❞ (end of description)


MY RATING: ★★☆☆☆ (2/5)

REVIEW

I did not enjoy the writing style or characters in this book. Why did I read it all the way to the end? I don’t know.

I like fantasy, romantic, and YA novels but this one was a miss for me. In this type of genre, I generally like the characters to have a lively personality but the ones in the book fell flat to me. I would’ve liked the romance aspect to have been constructed differently, maybe a bit more passionate a bit more tension and more bits of humor but the plot felt a bit somber to me. I can’t stand rhymey rhymes and this one had them here and there.

Overall, this was not the book for me. I noticed a lot of people enjoyed this one and wished it would’ve been like that for me, but no.