Series and Book #: Steelflower Chronicles #1
Pages: 310
Summary:
Picking
the wrong pocket can get a girl in trouble…
Thief, assassin, sellsword—Kaia
Steelflower is famous. Well, mostly famous, and mostly for the wrong reasons.
She’s made a good life for herself, despite being kicked out of her homeland
for having no magic. She’s saving up for her retirement, when she can settle
down, run an inn, and leave the excitement for others.
Then she picks the wrong pocket, wakes
up with a hangover, and gets far more than she bargained for. Now she has a
huge, furry barbarian to look after, a princeling from her homeland to fend
off, and an old debt to fulfill. And for some reason, the God-Emperor’s
assassins want to kill her.
It’s
never easy being an elvish sellsword, and this time it just might be fatal…
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Sequel please! Steelflower was packed with amazing adventures, loveable characters, and a world full of intriguing stories.
Kaia was a great character, although she had a nasty habit of denying anything and everything Darik told her about herself and the Elven world she'd left. She was pretty adamant in her belief that she was magic-less and that she'd been kicked out of her country although with the combination of what Darik said and Kaia's memories, it was hard to believe. Which, I suppose, was the point. Despite her stubbornness, Kaia kicked butt, and she has a heart of gold despite her nickname as an Iron Flower.
Steelflower's world is tricky to delve into right away. Lilith Saintcrow doesn't explain things very well. The language, folklore, and idioms are for the reader to figure out for themselves. But it's not hard to get into the flow of things.
I would love to read sequels to this book. Unfortunately, Lilith Saintcrow says on the Steelflower page in her blog that due to piracy, she's not writing any sequels at this time. Hopefully they'll come around sooner rather than later because I really need to know what happens next! If not because of the plot than because of the characters. Kaia and Darik have finally started to develop a relationship, and they're so cute together!! This book is kind of hidden among the others Lilith Saintcrow has written (Strange Angels, for instance) but I think its wonderful. A++, would recommend.
The Cover: So lame compared to the story. Don't judge this story by its cover. At all.
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