“Words made me. They shifted over me from the moment I took breath; little black lines etched into my body as I wriggled and screamed And learned their meanings. Duty. Honour. Fate.”
Once they were eight. Eight from the millions that once lived in the prosperous and happy kingdom of Winter. And now, for the last 16 years, they have been fighting to win back the only place they can call home.
Meira is a lonely orphan girl living among the eight that initially escaped, even though she has no memories of Winter of her own. In the refugee camps, Meira is a nobody, a girl fighting for a world she’s never been a part of. The boy she loves, however, is not a nobody. He’s the future King of Winter. Their most prized asset. Winter’s last surviving hope of their magical bloodline.
But Meira was never destined to be a nobody. As the life she has always known fades into something different altogether, as new alliances are formed, leaving her questioning how useful she really is, as wars are fought, transporting her to even more dangerous places, all that she ever knew, about herself, about Winter, about family, love, Mather and magic, is all about to change…
Snow Like Ashes had the most interesting premise I’ve seen in a while, and I immediately knew that this was a series I just had to read. But while it was a good book – a really good book – there were so many flaws. I suppose it was the Game of Thrones name drop in the beginning of the blurb that led me to believe that this would be a teenage story, with a whole lot of politics. I just didn’t get much of the politics and backstabbing.
Overall, a story and a series I would definitely recommend! Four stars!
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