There is also a very strong sense of loneliness; after all, the road to salvation and redemption is lonely.

Maia Tamarin’s journey to sew the dresses of the sun, the moon and the stars has taken a grievous toll. YA fantasy readers will love the sizzling forbidden romance, mystery, and intrigue of UNRAVEL THE DUSK. In addition to Maia’s personal plight, her kingdom is on the brink of war with the very people they were trying to make peace with. I only assumed that Lim used the mythology around the blood of the stars and failed to pick up on the tinier details that likened Maia and Edan to the Weaver and Cowherd instead.

“Thank you, Your Majesty.” My voice was ice once more, gravid with lies.

So let me start by saying I didn’t realize this was a duology and that Unravel the Dusk was the end of the series when I went into it. (Plus side: One of those characters is Ammi, who gets to be very amazing in this book.) I wanted to tell him I would kill him before that happened, that I’d give in to the darkness in me and shatter his bones one by one before I let him touch my family. ( Log Out /  The boy she loves is gone, and she is forced to don the dress of the sun and assume the place of the emperor’s bride-to-be to keep the peace.

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Heat prickled my eyes, and my fingers twitched with temptation. You know it’s only a matter of time. glancing in the mirror to see her own eyes glowing red; losing control of her magic, her body, her mind.

Gone is the cheery and relentlessly optimistic tailor; in her place, a broken and downtrodden woman with the world on her shoulders. “You traveled with him for months.

Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Maia’s secret identity has been revealed, she has been separated from Edam and her soul is sold to a demon oath.

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The anger was gone as quickly as it came. . When the laughter floated away and finally faded, I uncurled my fingers and rubbed the bloody half-moons imprinted on my palms. You have the strength. While this is definitely a trend in YA books where each book needs to be more violent and explicit than the one before, Unravel the Dusk is reserved and elegant in it’s dark tone. “If you lie to me, I’ll have your father and brother brought here to be hanged.”.

August 12, 2020; Popular. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. The story is told with a lot less of flash and bang. She fights it every step of the way; but there is war on the horizon, fought more with magic and spirits than with weaponry and military tactics.

It was unlike me: yesterday I would have stared at the ground, stammering a barely coherent response—begging for the emperor not to hurt Edan.

When I asked Lim if this was planned and if so, why did she decide so, she said: “As I wrote the end to Spin the Dawn, I realized that the story was going in a darker direction so yes, the nature of [Unravel the Dusk] was planned in that regard.

Whatever Miss Lim writes next, I’ll definitely give it a read!

No! Maia is not and will never be, a warrior but she is full of heart and fighting spirit. We are so excited to share with you the amazing cover and exclusive excerpt of Unravel the Dusk from Elizabeth Lim, out July 7, 2020! It is Young Adult Retelling Fantasy. myself talk in the most pompous way possible. Yes.

If you came back after a long journey to find your world ripped apart, how would you react? A flare of anger shot up to my chest, squeezing it so tight I could hardly breathe. Gone is the cheery and relentlessly optimistic tailor; in her place, a broken and downtrodden woman with the world on her shoulders. When the emperor’s rivals learn of her deception, all hell breaks loose, but the war raging around Maia is nothing compared to the battle within.

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: The Blood of Stars duology has a problem with its romance. Maia tries to save the joining marriage between the Emperor and the shansen’s daughter, Sarnai (but she doesn’t love him and tries to escape with her lover).As Maia shows her true colors, a strike against the shansen brings newfound war to A’landi.

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There is even a specific scene towards the end of the book that truly makes Maia the Weaver in the tale and it was just so beautifully written with the lyrical wuxia quality that I could not help but begrudgingly accept Maia and Edan’s relationship.

I grow stronger every minute. I had not heard from any of my usual haunts (read: publicists and tour companies) about a review copy and I desperately needed this one in my hands. They feel stilted. And as she fought the demons, ghouls and voices in her head, Maia remained elegant and delicate, a far cry from the fierce and unapologetic YA female characters we come across today.

I took an impromptu break from social media and blogging this past month, focusing instead on reading and enjoying books without thinking of bookstagram and the blog.

I made mention of this in my initial review and referenced the Sun-Husband and Moon-Wife myth as this was the story where the stars bled.

You won’t even notice it. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Think how easy it would be, a dark voice bubbled within me. You won’t even notice it. In the end, there were so many factors driving Maia’s decisions; Edan was only a small part of it. Despite being stuck in Maia’s head, it is fast-paced.

The Quick Cut: The female royal tailor returns to the palace to find everything in disarray, including her love gone.

Throughout the series, Maia has been fiercely independent and resourceful, having grown up in an environment where she had to rely on her self. While The Blood of Stars duology is based on Mulan, it also holds elements of my favourite Chinese myth: the weaver and the cowherd. It’s only a matter of time before Maia loses herself completely, but she will stop at nothing to find Edan, protect her family, and bring lasting peace to her country.

It was the times when Maia wielded her magic that I had to read the paragraphs multiple times in order to grasp what was happening.

Unfortunately, their romance had already been set up in the first book and for continuity’s sake, it had to be continued. What would we do with that immense power? Trending. I had not heard from any of my usual haunts (read: publicists and tour companies) about a review copy and I desperately needed this one in my hands. About Unravel the Dusk: Maia Tamarin’s journey to sew the dresses of the sun, the moon and the stars has taken a grievous toll.

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