The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon - A Review

Synopsis:

The Hurricane Wars is the first book in a new romantasy trilogy. Following Talasyn, an orphan who has only ever known the chaos of the Hurrican Wars, now fights alongside her people to free them from the tyranny of the Night Empire. But her comrades might not be her people. Talasyn dreams of finding out where she was born, finding the family she belongs to and where the magic that flows through her veins came from.

Alaric, the one and only son and heir of the Night Emporer Gaheris, has been honed into a weapon becoming Master of the Shadowforged. Now he is tasked with obliterating the Sardovian Allfold. Including the one he sees weilding light magic, the same magic that killed his grandfather. He hestitates on killing her when they first meet, letting his greatest enemy slip through his fingers.

There is more at stake than the Hurricane Wars. Something powerful is emerging from across the Eversea, something that promises to cause even more devestation and destruction than the current War. Talasyn and Alaric will be forced to work together or doom their world if they can not see past their personal conflicts.

My thoughts:

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and while it wasn’t a Fourth Wing level of love, it was a solid 4 out of 5 stars for me and it did slightly fill the hole that Fourth Wing left (so yes this is another Fourth Wing hangover book recommendation). Everything from the characters, magic system and plot was extremely well done. Though there was a 100 pages or so that did seem to drag on as there was quite a bit of political plot going on, which I still enjoyed, just not as much as the rest of the book.

As someone who tends not to continue with books where the first half isn’t as good as the second, there was definitely enough to make me continue and was absolutely worth the wait. So i’d say to anyone who struggles or is struggling to get through the first half of the book, the second half is most definitely better, it has a lot more going on and the relationship between our two main characters definitely get’s more attention there.

I love a good enemies to lovers trope and it’s one of the key things thatd drew me towards this book, as well as the war and rebelling and it’s definitely one of the best written that I’ve read. It felt like a true enemies to lovers story which I can’t say for most of the books I have read which have the trope in it.