Series: Standalone
Format: Kindle, 350 pages
Release Date: August 28, 2023
Publisher: Entangled: Teen
Source: Kindle Unlimited
Genre: YA / Dystopian / Fantasy
With the release of A Glamour of Blood, L.E. Sterling returns to the world of the True Born (which ended in 2018) with a new book featuring some new, and old characters like Doc Raines, and Nolan Storm, the leader of the True Born in Dominion City and the most powerful man around. In this world, the plague ravaged the population for years. It turned people into Splicers, True Born, and Lasters. Thanks to the work of those like Doc Raines, the plague was stopped, but things are not exactly free of emotion, and hatred.
This book features Serena Rogue (not her real name). Serena has survived almost everything. The plague. A brutal battle that touched—in eerie and wondrous ways—every citizen. Serena has been living on the streets of Dominion City since she was 12 years old. After the death of her mother, the high priestess of the Order of the Cernunnos, she was abandoned by her stepmother Marjorie and rejected by her clan. She and her familiar Carl Chiba, who is 1/2 man, 1/2 cat, were members of the Rogue Army.
With the towers of Dominion City smoldering in ruins, the citizens are dying of hunger and someone has been snatching the children left to the streets, including a little girl named Macy who calls Serena Sky Lady, Serena takes it upon her self to investigate. Serena was once one of those kids, and she won’t stop until she finds whoever is behind this. Even if it means having to strike some kind of peace treaty with the one man who wants her dead. Because Nolan Storm isn’t one to cooperate when he can kill—especially if it’s someone who betrayed him.
Now an evil is rising from the ashes of Dominion City—shrouded in power, mystery, and a history almost as long as civilization itself—and Serena and Nolan don’t have a choice. The only way they’ll survive the Order is by working on the same side. But enmity and attraction are a lethal combination. Serena will be forced into facing her past face to face, and be challenged at every turn because she is the only person in the known world who has the abilities that she does which makes her the ideal consort to Nolan Storm. If they don't kill each other first.
*Thoughts* The author has stated that she wrote Serena to have eye issues because that make her more likable and realistic. Plus, the author herself has struggled with eye issues. I normally get these books from the publisher, but found that Kindle Unlimited offered it to me for free. I would suggest that you go back and read the final novel in the True Born trilogy just so you really know who Nolan Storm and Doc Raines are. It would also make sense to find out why Nolan was ready to kill Serena on sight when this story opens. I also think that the story's ending is predictable in the way things play out. Not that there's anything wrong with predictable!
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