Spark

Ember of Elyssia Quartet #2

by Anna Holmes

The Rosalian Legion made him a weapon. The Queen of Elyssia made him her Prince Consort. What he makes of himself is yet to be seen.

Caelin is Queen. The nation has settled into a more certain peace in the year since her coronation- until the night of her eighteenth birthday. A masked intruder interrupts her ball to take Alain captive, but before she gets the chance, his magic backfires. The only things investigating the phenomenon make clear: the abundant power at Alain’s disposal is not natural, and it is barely under his control.

As the magical energy festers inside him, Rosalian actors move in secret to secure the resources suspected in his modification. An envoy has issued a threat barely disguised as a request for negotiation. Caelin faces mounting pressure to focus her energies on a potentially violent solution. To ward off more war and to save Alain’s life, they take off on one more mad dash across the island to try to reconstruct what the Legion wreaked on him- before he’s lost to them for good.

390 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 9, 2019

About the author

Anna Holmes has been making up stories since she was too young to spell. She has held many strange jobs, including teaching high schoolers how to outwit the SAT, polishing boots and lacing corsets, and what a friend described once as “being a library elf”. She lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest United States with her husband, two spoiled cats, and an even-more-spoiled dog.

Reviews

[♡ · Rating 2 out of 5]

*I received this ARC in exchange for an honest review*

This was unfortunately a DNF for me. I tried to get into it I just couldn't. This just wasn't my cup of tea. Some parts seemed choppy and rushed and didn't seem to flow smoothly.

[Cherry London · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is an arrowing thing to see the love of your life suffer and you are impotent of changing that, it is even more disastrous when he is forcibly taken away. Caelin, queen of two fractured countries and Alain a prince without a throne, bounded by love and separated by magic, betrayal, deceit, and dishonesty. Caelin fights to preserve and hold on to what they have, while Alain’s mind has a torturous grip on him, he is in so much pain, physical and emotional, unsure of what or who he really is. An interesting, entertaining and adventure fill book, with memorable and interesting characters, all embodied in a wonderful storyline.

[thewoollygeek (tea, cake, crochet & books) · Rating 1 out of 5]

Unfortunately not for me, I found the writing wasn’t very good at times and because of that I struggled to get into it, the characters were two dimensional, not likeable and I couldn’t find myself interested at all.


Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy for an honest opinion