You Are Mine

Serena lives in a country where women are property. They have no rights, no choices, no lives. Their singular purpose is to provide more sons. They are only as valuable as the amount of magic in their blood – magic that they pass on to their sons, but that they aren't allowed to actually use. As property, the women are treated viciously because they aren't seen as people.

Hence the aforementioned rage.

It was straight up hard to read at times. The anger almost made me put it down. Experiencing Serena being treated that way – it just hurt.

But this world is bigger than Serena's country, and this story was about showing her that.

Watching Serena learn to trust and realize that there are good men in the world made for a beautiful story. One that is rarely told, and never told in this much detail. I loved that this relevant theme (recovering from abuse and learning to trust again) was set in an alternate fantasy universe.

You Are Mine was a fairy-tale like no other fairy-tale.