This is why he takes Farid’s hand and agrees to be his student, but his training takes a different turn after the gods send their message. While he’d been able to successfully save his sister, it came at the price of having Idir inside his mind, and he doesn’t know how long he will be able to hold off the powerful spirit, especially when his knowledge of magic is limited. Forced to flee the city, she now embarks on a journey to find allies to help her regain her seat at the throne, however, this plan is quickly derailed when the gods send them a message: the Great Mother is angered at the imbalance of the world, and now she will bring disaster upon disaster until the world ends, or until renewal is paid. This is a YA fantasy for sure, no sexiness, but the stirrings of romance are great.The last day of Solstasia changes everyone’s lives, and not for the better.įarid successfully completes the Rite of Resurrection, bringing back Karina’s older sister from the dead, and pitting everyone against Karina. The last 50 pages were really good and intense and Brown leaves you asking a lot of questions.

I couldn’t figure out how these two would solve their problems without killing each other. I didn’t know who to cheer for or who to trust. This one was a little slow to start but by the halfway mark I was completely hooked.

The two unknowingly need each other to die and what follows is a magical struggle to complete their missions, but what happens when they fall in love? Princess Karina is trying to figure out how to bring her mother back and it turns out Malik can help.

He steals Malik’s little sister and says he will only return her if Malik can kill the Princess of Ziran by the end of Solstasia. Then his sisters and him run into some trouble on the road with a god. Wraiths and Ruin is set in a fantasy version of Africa, Malik heads to the city of Ziran with his two sisters for the 7-day Solstasia festival hoping to find some work. I receive a commission on Indigo purchases at no extra cost to you. The second book in this series A Psalm of Storms and Silence releases in November! This post contains affiliate links. Good morning bookworms! I finished another book in March! Go me! This was a new fantasy series called A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A.

A psalm of wraiths and ruin