FROM BREATH & RUIN by Carrie Ann Ryan is available now
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Blurb
In her YA debut, New York Times bestselling author Carrie Ann Ryan dives into a world with magic and sacrifice with the Elements of Five.
Five hundred years ago, the Maison Realm was shattered, divided into warring kingdoms of elemental Wielders with fate and truth shadowed and uncertain. Now, factions of both the light and dark venture into the human realm in search of the prophesied Spirit Priestess who is said to Wield the Elements of Five and bring the two fractured kingdoms together.
Lyric has no idea that there’s a realm outside the human one she lives in. When fate and circumstances are pulled from her hands after an accident, and she finds out that nothing is at it seems.
There is a war surrounding her and when Lyric realizes that they are searching for her, she must rely on those she once trusted: a boy who isn’t who she thought, and a new realm of warriors who have come to protect her as she trains.
For the darkness is coming, and the Queen of Obscurité wants to ensure that the King of Lumière can’t get his hands on Lyric. And the only way to ensure that is if Lyric herself is no more…no matter the cost to prophecy.
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My Thoughts <3
What a great start to a YA series! From the very first page I was deeply engaged in not only the story line but with Lyric, the main character as well!
Lyric seems to be a normal teenage girl who still gets tongue-tied when she talks to her crush and still feels a bit out of place with not knowing what she wants to do when she grows up– totally get that I changed my major in college 3 times haha!
She is thrust into a new realm with her desire to help her friends out and comes to realize just how important she is. Add in a swoon-worthy hero and yep, I was a goner!
I freaking adored the pace that this went in which everything was discovered, just what exactly was happening. The only thing that got me a little was the ending and leaving everything so unresolved, but this is a series and it definitely has me hooked to check out the next one! Great job Carrie Ann Ryan!!!
4.5 outta 5 stars!!
I received this book for free and am voluntarily reviewing it!
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About the Series:
One thousand years ago, there was one realm of magic.
The Maison Realm.
It held five kingdoms with five kings or queens, who worked together to keep the Maison people safe and ensure the balance of magic. Over the last five hundred years following the Fall, the great war that began the fracture, many of the kingdoms’ inhabitants intermated, and the magics soon became tied to one another in pairs. Except for the Spirit Wielders. The two remaining kingdoms are now converging, and the veil between the two is fading. Only the human realm lies between the two, and no one there knows there is a war surrounding them.
Over time, certain children of the Fall began to leave their respective kingdoms to venture into the human realm in search of the prophesied Spirit Priestess who is said to wield the Elements of Five and bring the two fractured kingdoms together. For the realms are dying without their sister magics.
And soon, there will be no more power left to rule the kingdoms, for there will be no more kingdoms left to rule.
Author Bio:
Carrie Ann Ryan is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of contemporary and paranormal romance.
Her works include the Montgomery Ink, Redwood Pack, Talon Pack, and Gallagher Brothers series, which have sold over 3.0 million books worldwide.
She started writing while in graduate school for her advanced degree in chemistry and hasn’t stopped since. Carrie Ann has written over fifty novels and novellas with more in the works.
When she’s not writing about bearded tattooed men or alpha wolves that need to find their mates, she’s reading as much as she can and exploring the world of baking and gourmet cooking.