Hello guys!
I'm quite pleased to take be taking part on the Blog Tour for Blood of the Prophet by Kat Ross, the second book on her The Fourth Element series!
I'll be giving you some information on the book & author below, as well as sharing my review and a tour wide giveaway!
Blood of the Prophet by Kat
Ross(The Fourth Element #2)
Publication date: September 12th 2016
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult
Visionary. Alchemist. Savior. Saint.
The Prophet Zarathustra has been called many things. Now he spends his time drawing pictures of weird-looking goats. That’s what happens when you’ve been stuck in a prison cell for two hundred years. But the man who might be mad, and is definitely supposed to be dead, has suddenly become very valuable again…
It’s only been a few weeks since Nazafareen escaped the King’s dungeons with her daēva, Darius. She hoped never to set foot in the empire again, but the search for the Prophet has led them to the ancient city of Karnopolis. They have to find him before Alexander of Macydon burns Persepolae, and Darius’s mother with it. But they’re not the only ones looking.
The necromancer Balthazar has his own plans for the Prophet, and so does the sinister spymaster of the Numerators. As Nazafareen is drawn in to a dangerous game of cat and mouse, her newfound powers take a decidedly dark turn. Only the Prophet understands the secret of her gift, but the price of that knowledge may turn out to be more than Nazafareen is willing to pay…
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About the author:
Kat Ross worked as a journalist at the United Nations for ten years before happily falling back into what she likes best: making stuff up. She lives in Westchester with her kid and a few sleepy cats. Kat is also the author of the dystopian thriller Some Fine Day (Skyscape, 2014), about a world where the sea levels have risen sixty meters. She loves magic, monsters and doomsday scenarios. Preferably with mutants.
REVIEW
Kat Ross has become an auto-buy author after managing to make me love her books no matter what she writes, be it dystopia, fantasy or mystery, and this one was one more reason to reaffirm my love!
Blood of the Prophet is the second book in her The Fourth Element series and although it starts a bit on the slow side of things, and with some choices on Nazafareen & Darius side that made me shake my head, but it never suffered from "second book syndrome" and before the first third of the book mark the action quickly started picking up pace, and started hinting at some rather juicy revelations to come and change the way we see the world, and what our characters knew or thought they knew!
I love how the world building is expanded, not only in terms of the Empire and cities visited but also in terms of what we get to know about the daevas, the magic system and the Druj and what they are and aren't. And I'm quite excited about getting to know more in the upcoming books!
I love that Nazafareen and Darius' characters continue to grow both separatedly and as a team, and that we finally get a lil bit of progress on the romance side of things, although it never takes over the plot or the story, and that's one thing I'm really thankful for! It's not the only important relationship though, because the friendships between Myrri and Tijah and the friendship between Tijah and Nazafareen, and how well the four of them worked together.
I was quite surprised when we started getting POV chapters for two of the main antagonists of the book, the Necromancer and the Numerator, but it served the purpose to giving us an insight on their heads (not very pretty places to be inside, though) and motivations and to give us more information about the past as well as the present of the whole story, and they were both quite complex characters and both made my skin crawl for different reasons!
The ending of the book really left me wishing for book 3 like RIGHT NOW, so I hope that Kat Ross is writing like the wind! Very much deserved 4 stars for this one!
Glad you liked it, Pili! This sounds like a great series overall and I'm glad the sequel lived up to your expectations! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Giselle! =D
DeleteThis series is new to me Pili, I definitely need to check out the first book! And this author in general since I haven't read anything of hers. I fail. :)
ReplyDeleteKat Ross is quite awesome, I hope you'll give one of her books a try, Jenny!
DeleteI sometimes struggle with antagonists' POV, but I'm glad it works so well here! I have no idea how this series slipped by me, but I'll fix that mistake asap.
ReplyDeleteI was not aware of either of these books, so I am happy I stopped by! The guy who draws strange goats has hooked me, ha ha. I love super imaginative things like that. I have to chuckle every time I see the name Balthazar because that was one of our name choices for Sebastian, and I think he would hate it if that was his name. XD
ReplyDeletethanks so much for the lovely review, Pili, I'm afraid there's more creepy Balthazar coming, but the plot definitely thickens and he's not what he seems, or not entirely.... anyway, you rock, thanks again :)
ReplyDeleteOhh, pretty cover :D Thank you for sharing about this book sweetie. <3 Lovely review Pili :D I'm glad you liked this book a bunch :)
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