Ransom was such an interesting character that you kind of want to love and hate. I loved that this book was told in dual POV. “But perhaps all monsters were heroes in their own eyes.” It was nice seeing an author not make everything magically okay once Ransom and Ana start working together. Our main characters both have a lot of things to deal with and their world is definitely a complicated one. Things aren’t really all sunshine and rainbows and don’t end that way either. To start the review off I have to say I like that this book is a bit darker. I haven’t really read any of these before, but it was interesting to see! I’m happy about that, because this is such an interesting story and deserves to be seen that way! Blood Heir is in a way a Anastasia retelling, as the author did take some of those elements and used them in this book. After reading this story, I honestly don’t see it. I know there was a lot of controversy around Blood Heir on Twitter before its release. “Humans, it seemed, tended to fear things that were different.” Because in this story, the princess might be the most dangerous player of all. And there is only one person corrupt enough to help Ana get to its core: Ramson Quicktongue.Ī cunning crime lord of the Cyrilian underworld, Ramson has sinister plans-though he might have met his match in Ana. Corruption rules the land, and a greater conspiracy is at work-one that threatens the very balance of her world. But the Cyrilia beyond the palace walls is far different from the one she thought she knew. And to clear her name, she must find her father’s murderer on her own. Framed as his killer, Ana must flee the palace to save her life. When Ana’s father, the emperor, is murdered, her world is shattered. Her deadly Affinity to blood is her curse and the reason she has lived her life hidden behind palace walls.

And Anastacya Mikhailov, the crown princess, has a terrifying secret. Their varied gifts to control the world around them are unnatural-dangerous. In the Cyrilian Empire, Affinites are reviled. This hot debut is the first book in an epic new series about a princess hiding a dark secret and the con man she must trust to clear her name for her father’s murder.

I finally got my hands on it in December and read it in January for a group read for TBR & Beyond! I definitely enjoyed this story and want to tell you what I thought. Blood Heir is a book that I’ve been curious about since I started hearing about it.

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