Disclaimer: I received this e-book from the author. Thanks! All opinions are my own.
Book: The Lost Legends
Author: Cait Marie
Book Series: The Nihryst Book 1
Rating: 4.5/5
Recommended For…: Young adult readers, new adult readers, fantasy, sea-faring, pirates
Genre: NA Fantasy
Publication Date: March 18, 2020
Publisher: Indie Published
Pages: 358
Recommended Age: 14+ (Parent death, Grief, Violence, Sexual innuendo, Attempted sexual assualt, Romance, Sexual content, Abuse, Plague)
Explanation of CWs: There is parental death which is a key point in the book and sometimes the grief that the main characters hold for that is mentioned. There is some violence and a couple of instances of attempted sexual assault shown on page. There are only a couple of sexual innuendos and the romance level of this book is very mild. There is some sexual content, but for the most part it is fade to black. There is also one shown event of abuse between a father and daughter and a plague is central to the storyline.
Synopsis: A plague. A prophecy. A centuries-long curse.
All her life, Princess Adalina heard tales of the legendary, immortal warriors known as the Nihryst. Cursed and bound to a deck of tarot cards by her ancestors, the Nihryst were stranded on a remote island nearly a century and a half earlier.
Her brother, Prince Shane, is destined to rule the kingdom of Detmarya. Though preparing for this role has encompassed his entire life, control of the kingdom may come sooner than expected due to their father’s sporadic behavior.
Discovering the king’s plan to set a war in motion with a mass assassination, Ada unwittingly joins a crew of pirates in search of the only beings powerful enough to stop him: the Nihryst. Meanwhile, Shane and a group of underground rebels make a haunting discovery of a plague infecting the streets of Detmarya.
With a looming deadline to save multiple kingdoms and thousands of innocent lives, both royal siblings join quests worthy of Ada’s beloved fairy tales.
Review: For the most part I really liked this book. I am always up for a good pirate seafaring book mixed with princesses and stuff like that so this book was totally up my alley. I like the story behind it a lot and the prophecy and I thought the use of the prophecy trope was really well done. I also really like the character development and the world building.
However, I really felt like the book was really fast-paced. That worked well for me for the most part but it really quickens the plot and I can see where it will not work well for a lot of people. I think that the writing should have been slowed down a little bit and more time taken to look at the surroundings and I think more dialogue between the characters could have helped as well. There’s also a large amount of characters in this book and at a certain point they all kind of blend together a little bit, which made it a little bit confusing for me to put it down and then come back to it.
Verdict: I loved it!
The Lost Legends by Cait Marie
