It’s hard for Bree and readers to know who is trustworthy. This is a pretty long book (573 pages), and the action is pretty much nonstop, with danger lurking in every direction throughout.

But she’s facing plenty of opposition and danger as she does so.īloodmarked raises the stakes much higher than they were even in the first book, Legendborn. And as the story progresses, it gets harder to ignore her growing attraction to Sel.įor Bree to have a chance to save herself, those she loves, and the human world, she has to find a way to learn from her ancestors how to control her powers. While Bree’s powers are unpredictable and she has yet to learn to control them, Selwyn is a bit unpredictable himself. Selwyn, the “Merlin” who had sworn to protect Nick as the presumed Scion of Arthur, now sticks to Bree’s side to protect her. Luckily, some in the Order are in Bree’s corner, and they help her go on the run. At the same time, Nick, the Legendborn teen Bree fell in love with, has been kidnapped. So they trick her and take her to a locked-down facility, to “protect” her. The leaders of the Order, the Regents, are wary, even afraid, of Bree’s powers and don’t like that she’s an outsider, much less Black. She’s Black, and not only is she a “Scion” of Arthur himself, but she is a Medium and Bloodcrafter, able to wield a different kind of magic, rootcraft, from her mother’s line, back generations of women. And every so often in the centuries since Arthur’s reign, a huge battle takes place, in which the Legendborn are all awakened, guided by their ancestors and wielding their special powers.īree turns out to be Legendborn herself, a surprising development among the mostly white Order. The Legendborn teens and young adults fight demons who prey on humans’ emotions. But infiltrating the Legendborn Order, a society of people descended from King Arthur and his knights, just opened up a whole new can of worms. It’s nonstop action and hard to put down.īrianna Matthews just wanted to find out the truth about her mother’s death, which has cast a long shadow of grief over her life.

IN SHORT: This second in a series is an excellent young adult fantasy book weaving Arthurian mythology/legend with history of enslaved people in the South.

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