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A review by anubhaghoshal
Mageborn by Jessica Thorne
5.0
I found this book to be enthralling, for me it was similar to Throne of glass, this world being more magical. I have not read the whole series so am comparing book 1 only. This book gripped me and got me addicted, had to binge read it and couldn't put it down.
The plot of the story went something like there is this kingdom which was ruled by Hollow king who was mad with magic and his sister who actually was crazy and had immense magic but not more than the king. This king was a god of mageborn (peope with magic) and so was his sister. One day, this human comes and says that people are going to rebel and mageborn will be harmed. He promised that if he was cowned the king he will protect all mageborn. From then this human founded the Larelwynn dynasty and only blood successors of his dynasty could succeed him(not a mageborn, he has to be human). Presently, Marius was the king and his brother, Bastien was the lord of Thorns, while Marius ruled the whole kingdom, Bastien controlled the mageborn for Marius. Bastien had this immense magical power which no other had. He was the ruler of mageborn but he was loyal to Marius.
now Marius falls ill and has no heir and declares his brother Bastien as heir. The complication is though Bastien is a blood royal he isn't a human, he is a mageborn, the most superior one at that so chaos take place and riots incept. meanwhile, Grace, an orphan grows up to be an officer and suspects Bastien of misusing his power, she suspects him but while doing it Marius asks Grace to owe for the protection of Bastien (bodyguard kinda) because of the ongoing riot and threat to Bastien's life.
I was devoured by this world and would love to read the sequel. I got a complimentary copy of this book and all opinions are honest and mine.
The plot of the story went something like there is this kingdom which was ruled by Hollow king who was mad with magic and his sister who actually was crazy and had immense magic but not more than the king. This king was a god of mageborn (peope with magic) and so was his sister. One day, this human comes and says that people are going to rebel and mageborn will be harmed. He promised that if he was cowned the king he will protect all mageborn. From then this human founded the Larelwynn dynasty and only blood successors of his dynasty could succeed him(not a mageborn, he has to be human). Presently, Marius was the king and his brother, Bastien was the lord of Thorns, while Marius ruled the whole kingdom, Bastien controlled the mageborn for Marius. Bastien had this immense magical power which no other had. He was the ruler of mageborn but he was loyal to Marius.
now Marius falls ill and has no heir and declares his brother Bastien as heir. The complication is though Bastien is a blood royal he isn't a human, he is a mageborn, the most superior one at that so chaos take place and riots incept. meanwhile, Grace, an orphan grows up to be an officer and suspects Bastien of misusing his power, she suspects him but while doing it Marius asks Grace to owe for the protection of Bastien (bodyguard kinda) because of the ongoing riot and threat to Bastien's life.
I was devoured by this world and would love to read the sequel. I got a complimentary copy of this book and all opinions are honest and mine.