Book Review: Mark of the Raven by Morgan L. Busse

First of all, I know this week seems a bit like a week of reviews, but bear with me, I promise that next week won't have any.

Secondly, a big thanks to Bethany House for sending me this book in exchange for a review! Even though they sent this book to me all thoughts on this review are 100% honest and my opinion.

Fantasy fanatics listen up, because I have the book for you!

This captivating book weaves a tale of betrayal, schemes, family secrets, and mysterious crimes and murders.

Summary (from goodreads):

Lady Selene is the heir to the Great House of Ravenwood and the secret family gift of dreamwalking. As a dreamwalker, she can enter a person's dreams and manipulate their greatest fears or desires. For the last hundred years, the Ravenwood women have used their gift of dreaming for hire to gather information or to assassinate.

As she discovers her family's dark secret, Selene is torn between upholding her family's legacy--a legacy that supports her people--or seeking the true reason behind her family's gift.

Her dilemma comes to a head when she is tasked with assassinating the one man who can bring peace to the nations, but who will also bring about the downfall of her own house.

One path holds glory and power, and will solidify her position as Lady of Ravenwood. The other path holds shame and execution. Which will she choose? And is she willing to pay the price for the path chosen?

Honestly, I wish this book had been out when I was twelve because I was going through my fantasy loving stage back then and this book would have been a favorite along with The Warrior of the Son series by Samuel Schiller.

I loved how the story was told through two POVs because I am a big fan of POVs, and it was great seeing the different perspectives of the two main characters.

This book was well-written and artfully paced, there wasn't really any dull moments that I can think of right now, and that's very rare in fantasy books.

Mark of the Raven is so raw, even though it's fantasy it doesn't hold back from bringing up so many great questions about humanity and how we may be misusing the skills we have been given.

Content-wise, this book was spotless but it did allude to past rape for a few characters, so trigger warning for that.

Rating:

All in all, this was a great book, Morgan is a talented author, and I look forward to reading more of her works. Also, look at that cover. Epicness. 

It's worth the read and money, so if you're interested you can find it here. 

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Happy Writing,