It was so clean and sharp, with the odd nice description sprinkled in. I liked it, and thought the style fitted the world really well. I really liked the book, whizzing through it while sick.įrom talking to others, the writing seems to be pretty hit or miss – like marmite. Did the controversy contribute to me picking it up? Probably. I’m not going to talk about that, because others have addressed it and I didn’t read the original text, so I have no idea how much was changed. This book is one of the most controversial books this year – if not the. Because in this story, the princess might be the most dangerous player of all. And there is only one person corrupt enough to help Ana get to its core: Ramson Quicktongue.Ī cunning crime lord of the Cyrilian underworld, Ramson has sinister plans-though he might have met his match in Ana. Corruption rules the land, and a greater conspiracy is at work-one that threatens the very balance of her world. But the Cyrilia beyond the palace walls is far different from the one she thought she knew. And to clear her name, she must find her father’s murderer on her own.

Framed as his killer, Ana must flee the palace to save her life. When Ana’s father, the emperor, is murdered, her world is shattered. Her deadly Affinity to blood is her curse and the reason she has lived her life hidden behind palace walls. And Anastacya Mikhailov, the crown princess, has a terrifying secret. Their varied gifts to control the world around them are unnatural-dangerous.

#CBR13 Book 1: 'The Princess Diarist' by Carrie Fi.In the Cyrilian Empire, Affinites are reviled.

Reading Challenges Announcement Post 2021.#CBR13 Book 2: 'Blood Heir' by Ilona Andrews.#CBR13 Book 3: 'The Sisters of the Winter Wood' by.A lot of the characters Aurelia/Julie interacts with and encounters over the course of the book first appeared in the Kate Daniels books, and while there is a lot of information given about the world, the magic system, the complex politics that keep it running, I suspect a reader would be a lot more comfortable having read at least some of the previous series before starting this one. This nurse's request seems to have made them revisit their already established paranormal fantasy world, moving the action eight years after the end of their last book, and switching to a different protagonist. A few years back, in 2018, having finished the Kate Daniels series, the husband and wife team who make up Ilona Andrews considered doing a spin-off about Julie, Kate's adopted daughter, but were a bit bored with the world and its characters and needed a break for a while. This novel started as free snippets posted on Ilona Andrews' website because a Covid nurse e-mailed them and asked for something to read to take her mind off her gruelling work schedule.

Blood heir series in order