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Fallen Kingdoms #1 - Book Review

Book Title : Well Of Eida
The Fallen Kingdoms #1
Author : K. B. Benson
Pages : 413


Book Description:

Two years have passed since Ari was taken as a prisoner to the troll realm. Two years of blood staining her hands, killing as the troll king’s mercenary. In Eida, it’s kill or be killed, and Ari will do anything to survive. 

But survival does not come easy in Eida, especially for a young woman with fire in her blood.

When Ari's sold to one of Eida’s most notorious training masters, her survival comes with a price: unleash the monster she’s buried inside. A very real and very dangerous creature no opponent can defeat.

Ari expects to kill. She expects to survive. But she doesn’t expect the growing feelings she has for the man who has claimed her as his. Together, Ari and her master will cut down every opponent in the arena seeking a wish from their king. 

Until a man from her past challenges her within those walls, and everything Ari has fought for crumbles. All for a man she once loved. But if she is to save her own life, she must take his. 

After all, everyone dies in Eida.


Review:

"𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙣𝙤 𝙬𝙖𝙧 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙪𝙨, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙙𝙞𝙙, 𝙬𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙛𝙖𝙡𝙡. 𝙃𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙙. 𝙄𝙣 𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙤𝙧 𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨. 𝙏𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧"

The book is about a girl who is being sacrificed by someone she trusts, and then captured and learned to live as one of the prisoners in the troll realm. Later on Ari was captured by some trolls in Arautteve. They sold her to a master whose monster is stronger than anyone's and therefore struggling with conflicting loyalties she unleashes her monster with his help. Her feelings grew stronger day by day and when she thought she could do anything along with him on her side, she found someone from her hometown here. Neither a part of their new world, but neither being able to rejoin the old world. Everything changes for the three of them. 

Each battle scene is absorbing. The Author is very subtle about slowly building friendships. Brilliant storytelling, the descriptions of battle are horrendously evocative, and the characters are very well-fleshed and complete, especially Ari, whose voice tells this story. I very much look forward to continuing on to read the other books in the series, and like the rest of this author's books. I enjoyed Ari's relationship with her master more. 

The World inside this book is insane it won't let you do anything. I started losing sleep because of it - I simply couldn't put it away, and the same was true until I was done with the second book. The book does have the shallow side characterizations as I wanted to know more about them. 

Rating : 

10/10 No Doubt. 

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