Thank you Casey L. Bond for this ARC!
Synopsis:
With these three virtues, we shall rise. With these three, we shall conquer.
Truth. Honor. Blood.
To my people, the sky-reigning Empyreans, Intention Day is sacred…
Truth…
To me, it’s the day my carefully crafted lie crumbles and my truth gives way to my ruin. The intense power surging through my veins is revealed, immediately coveted by those eager to exploit me for what they deem a greater good. If they have their way, the future I long for will be ripped away. But I am a warrior born to fly. To fight. Not to be caged and controlled.
The great scale of the goddess Neera has tipped out of my favor. The pans teeter between weighty punishment and deadly opportunity. My choices? Capture my most formidable enemy before next Intention Day, or forfeit my wings.
Honor…
But life’s loftiest plans are often a breath away from disaster, and tragedy strikes as unpredictably as a bolt of lightning. When I find myself at the mercy of my greatest enemy, the terror known as the Shark of the Sea, the monster who killed the person I loved most, I accept my fate. My death. But the Shark does not lash out in revenge for all I’ve done. He tells me his true name is Crest. And while he calls me a Scourge, he honors his orders to guard me.
Blood…
Forced together, Crest reveals that the truth only exists in the place between our perspectives and shares his hope to garner peace before the land is further soaked with the blood of sky and sea. The longer I am among his kind, the more I wonder if he might be right. Could an alliance be the salvation of both our peoples?
I am Elira, great Scourge of the Sky.
He is Crest, cunning Shark of the Sea.
Together… we could be unstoppable.
Review & thoughts:
Where Oceans Burn is a new fantasy romance book from Casey L. Bond and having read most of her books I can easily say it’s definitely my new favorite of hers!
Elira is part of Empyreans, people with wings who consider the sky their home and spend their whole lives fighting their enemies who live in the sea. When on a sacred day her blood reveals a dangerous secret she was hiding her whole life, she is given one year to capture her greatest enemy or risk a fate worse than death. But when a tragedy strikes and Elira finds herself at the mercy of the very people she spent her whole life hating, will she be able to make peace with her new situation and the Shark of the Sea who seems not to be the monster she believed him to be, or will her hatred win?
I am absolutely in love with the world building in Where Oceans Burn, the idea of people of the sky and people of the sea who have so different cultures and who hate each other was so amazing and well written, I am in awe of how the author created such a fascinating world. Both fractions of people have such good reasons to wage this war and while we think we can say who the villains are, everything is in shades of grey here and I can’t wait to see how it will all be sorted out.
Elira is an amazing FMC, she annoyed me a bit at the beginning of the book, but she grew so much and was so strong when her whole world was falling apart she quickly became my favorite character! I always love an enemies to lovers romance and this one did not disappoint, my only complaint can be that I would love to see more of Elira and Crest, but I guess we will get more of them in the next book and I already can’t wait!
I really enjoyed Where Oceans Burn and already can’t wait to read the sequel, definitely recommend it to all YA fantasy romance lovers!
Rating:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5
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