The Bird and the Sword
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Average rating4
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Ratings25
Average rating4
Swallow, daughter, pull them in, those words that sit upon your lips. Lock them deep inside your soul, hide them 'til they've time to grow. Close your mouth upon the power, curse not, cure not, 'til the hour. You won't speak and you won't tell, you won't call on heaven or hell. You will learn and you will thrive. Silence, daughter. Stay alive. The day my mother was killed, she told my father I wouldn't speak again, and she told him if I died, he would die too. Then she predicted the king would sell his soul and lose his son to the sky. My father has a claim to the throne, and he is waiting in the shadows for all of my mother's words to come to pass. He wants desperately to be king, and I just want to be free. But freedom will require escape, and I'm a prisoner of my mother's curse and my father's greed. I can't speak or make a sound, and I can't wield a sword or beguile a king. In a land purged of enchantment, love might be the only magic left, and who could ever love . . . a bird?
Series
2 primary booksThe Bird and the Sword Chronicles is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2016 with contributions by Amy Harmon.
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I never want to stop reading Amy Harmon's words. Ever. Ugh. I can't even write a coherent review for this book. I'm not usually a fan of fantasy but I was captivated by this from the very beginning. The world Amy Harmon builds is unique and filled with magic and intriguing characters. Lark and Tiras are connected in ways you can't even imagine and I was on the edge of my seat until the very end.
Very solid beginning to this book, but my interest began waning later on. I wanted this book to really blow me away after the amazing intro, but since it didn't I was kind of left wanting more action, more something. The romance was good, there wasn't a love triangle thankfully, and I really liked the idea of the 4 different gifted.
SpoilerI was confused, why Lark needed to be able to spell words for her spells to work so well... did that seem weird? Was that explained and I somehow missed it? I wouldnt be surprised, I read this book when I was on a plane with screaming children behind me.
I would definitely suggest this book.
