Daughter of the Sun
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Average rating3.5
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Ratings2
Average rating3.5
Orsina of Melidrie is a paladin of the Order of the Sun, sworn to drive out corruption and chaos wherever she finds it. She has been ordered to leave her home and travel around Vesolda in search of a great evil she is supposedly destined to destroy. But after two years of fighting monsters and demons and evil gods, she does not seem to be any closer to her goal—or ever returning home.
Aelia is the Goddess of Caprice, the personification of poor decision-making. The Order of the Sun has classified her as a chaos goddess, meaning that her worship has been outlawed. During a run-in with Orsina, she is trapped in a mortal body, rendering her unable to leave Inthya.
Aelia is found by Orsina again, but this time Orsina does not recognize her in her new body. So Aelia pretends to be a mortal woman who is fleeing an abusive family. Aelia plans to use Orsina as protection as she hunts down the magical relic that will free her from her mortal body.
As Aelia and Orsina grow closer to one another, Aelia wrestles with her own desire to tell Orsina the truth about who she is, and her fear that Orsina will turn on her if she does. But the decision might not be hers after all, because their actions have not gone unnoticed by Aelia’s siblings.
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Solid but not much more.
The world is interesting, but unfortunately I don't feel the author is confident enough in their own writing to pull off a fantasy story. Whenever there is a conflict that is bigger than interpersonal, it happens off screen, or is cut short. Which results in a. a rushed feeling climax and b. the paladin character coming across as kind of a huge loser (which i guess was kind of charming but nto sure if it was intentional).
The character interactions (Which, if you take this as a romance more than a fantasy should be more important anyway) are mostly good, but I found the development also a bit sudden towards the end.
Though the leads really needed to have sex at some point. It can be offscreen or not, I don't really care, it's not that I wanted to read a sex scene as much as I feel that the several scenes that seem to have almost-ended-in-sex in the end have no resolution.
So this basically results in a climax that is the leads agreeing: they are in love, then a lackluster plot resolution, and then nothing. There was no real climax emotionally or plot wise. So , I don't know, it wasn't bad or anything, but it kind of was lackluster.
All that said, this is still a head above most lesbian romances. It's solidly written for the most part, and the characters are likeable.
Series
2 primary booksTales of Inthya is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2018 with contributions by Effie Calvin.
