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A review by clairewrobel
Wings of Ebony by J. Elle
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Torture and Death
Rue grew up with her younger sister and her single mom, living on the same friendly block in a dangerous neighborhood. But everything changed when her mother was shot on their front stoop and mysterious people take Rue back to a magical island, Ghizon. They tell her she's the daughter of a powerful official in their magical country and she must be bound to magic and trained to use it. She hates it. She wants to be with her sister and grieve the loss of their mom, but she can't have any contact with her old life. On the anniversary of her mother's murder, Rue takes a chance and returns to the human world to give her sister a gift. That's all that was supposed to happen. But plans change when her sister is nearly killed and Rue must expose her magic to save her. This sets off a chain of events that gets the Ghizani government on Rue's tail, making her public enemy #1. The more Rue tries to escape the General and the Chancellor, the more she uncovers about the corruption of the government and the truth of what really happened to her Ghizani ancestors.
This book was a solid 4/5 until the last like 20 pages. I thought the ending with the General was cliche and anticlimactic in a really disappointing way. There were still things unresolved so I might read the sequel but I'm not dying to.