Sacrati

If you enjoyed Captive Prince this is probably somewhere up your alley3,5 blood smeared stars for this interesting read

While on patrol, Theos and his comrades encounter a group of Elkati soldiers who trespassed on Thorian territory. They are, minus a few casualties captured and supposed to be brought back with them. Prisoners in Thorian are either sold as slaves, kept as bedwarmers, or, if they're man enough, trained in combat.

The clash of cultures couldn't be any more mind boggling for the young Elkati prince and prisoner Finnvid. Back in his motherland the social and power structure differ so greatly that one can hardly compare them. The woman are in charge of everything besides the military training and there is no royalty,not aritrocracy or marriage! The Elkati army isn't nearly as good trained as the Thorian man, especially the Sacrati, an elite group of soldiers to which Theos belongs. And most of all back in his home country man don't have sex with each other. Especially not where others can see or hear everything that's going on! Of course there were rumors about their practises, but hearing about it and actually witnessing things are two completely different things.

The Sacrati Theos knows that something about the captives is different this time around when the warlord wants to sell each and everyone of the Elkati trespassers as slaves. Especially medically trained, Thorian speaking Finnvid won't stop nagging at his mind, and in the spur of the moment he saves Finnvid from being sold to who-knows-where. The warlords reaction shows that something big is going on and that Theos really shouldn't stick his nose into it if he cared about his own well-being.

Finnvid obviously knows more about the whole affair, but refuses to offer any information to Theos and soon enough the Sacrati's need to find out what's going on, makes room for a totally different kind of need. It's only his luck that Finnvid is Elkati, which think that the act of man lying together is a sin..

But who is Finnvid? And what sinister plot is slowly unfolding that threatens not only their lifes but the whole Thorian system?
Lies, betrayal, slaughter, difficult journeys and dicisions are awayting Theos and no one knows what the end of it all will look like. But Theos is Sacrati and Sacrati fight.


It was a bit difficult for me to rate this book as I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would, my expectations were set much higher. Probably because the summary reminded me so much of Captive Prince by S. U. Pacat and my thought were little more that ‘Yes! Gimme gimme gimme!'
The plot was good though, and the different systems, were interesting, although the world building was a bit lacking. I kind of found Finnvid's appearandly sudden love for Theos weird. For me their relationship lacked the chemistry.

What I found nice as well was that, though it was fantasy, the names were easy to raed, not like some of the names I encountered in other novels of the same genres. It ust is no fun if you need minutes to figure out how to read a name or get so frustrated that you just stop reading the name at all and end up simply registering the appearance of it.

~I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review~

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