Instead, we get a few chapters early on that are basically author to reader worldbuilding infodumps. I’d rather get the minimal information out of the way, and bring the rest of the crucial details out in dialogue.ĭialogue is the heart of story, and Blood Heir has large portions that are fairly devoid of it. I don’t particularly like deep backstories that need hashed out and explained to the reader. What follows that opening scene is the first mark against the story for me. So she’s entering this prison at very real risk of discovery herself, and what ensues is a really great opening scene full of action that tickles my fancy. She’s also the Crown Princess who’s supposed to be dead after she was framed for killing her father, the Emperor. Ana is an Affinite, a wielder of magic that is hated and feared by the empire. Something doesn’t sound right here.”īlood Heir begins with our heroine (or anti-heorine? Or morally gray heroine?) Ana being taken through the dungeons of a high security prison where she is meeting with a prisoner who is the key to finding the man who killed her father.īut it’s not as simple as it seems. Namely the beginning, the middle, and the end. But there were times where it really bothered me. I have so many mixed emotions when it comes to Blood Heir.
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