I've been busy with the third draft of my modern Pride and Prejudice retelling. Last week, I finished the main edits, and now I'm reading the draft one more time before it goes to copy editor in May. I'm so excited to share this book with the world!
If you want to see what more I've been up to recently, check out the writing vlog below:
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| Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross |
“Sometimes,” Iris began, “I don’t think we know what we’re made of until the worst moment possible happens. Then we must decide who we truly are and what is most important to us. I think we’re often surprised by what we become.”
Iris Winnow has returned home without her husband, Roman Kitt. Her hometown Oath continues to live in denial, unconcerned of the war between gods waging closer and closer to the city. When Iris is given the chance to return to the front, she once again heads westward despite the danger, determined to tell the truth of the war and to find Roman. On the other side of the enemy lines, Roman wakes up, healed by god Dacre but with no memories. He begins to work as a war correspondent for Dacre, but when a letter arrives beneath his wardrobe door, he is once again drawn to his mysterious pen pal.
Ruthless Vows is the second book in Rebecca Ross’s young adult fantasy duology Letters of Enchantment. I loved the first book, Divine Rivals, and I gave it four and a half stars. This book picks up a few weeks after the events of the first book. Iris and Roman are separated, and they need to find their way back together and to end the war between the gods. There’s less romance and a lot more fantasy warplot in this book. We also get a lot more scenes and chapters from Roman’s point of view. Personally, I would have preferred to see more of Iris’ point of view, and that’s one of the reasons why I didn’t like this book as much as Divine Rivals.
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| March Reads |
I finished three novels in March: Stephanie Garber’s young adult fantasy A Curse for True Love (3.5/5 stars), Paulo Coelho’s literary fiction The Alchemist (5/5 stars), and Rebecca Ross’s young adult fantasy Divine Rivals (4.5/5 stars). You can find reviews of the books behind the links.
In terms of nonfiction, I finished the final two of my old high school textbooks. They were about language and literature.
