Title : The Heart of Betrayal
Author : Mary E. Pearson
ISBN13 : 9780805099249
Publisher : Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Date Published : July 7th 2015
Held captive in the barbarian kingdom of Venda, Lia and Rafe have little chance of escape. Desperate to save her life, Lia's erstwhile assassin, Kaden, has told the Vendan Komizar that she has the gift, and the Komizar's interest in Lia is greater than anyone could have foreseen.
Meanwhile, nothing is straightforward: there's Rafe, who lied to Lia, but has sacrificed his freedom to protect her; Kaden, who meant to assassinate her but has now saved her life; and the Vendans, whom Lia always believed to be barbarians. Now that she lives amongst them, however, she realizes that may be far from the truth. Wrestling with her upbringing, her gift, and her sense of self, Lia must make powerful choices that will affect her country... and her own destiny.
My thought :
Before you read this
review, you may as well know that this may contain some spoilers from book one.
So if you haven’t read The Kiss of Deception, it’ll be better if you read it
first.
Mary E. Pearson
undoubtly blows my mind again. She’s so well skilled in twisting stories and
make this book unputdownable.
The story begins with
the exact same time where it left hanging in the end of the first book. Kaden
and Vendan soldiers agreed to take Lia and Rafe as prisoner when Venda was well
known to never take prisoner. The enemies always dead. Beside it, they also
believe that Rafe was an emissary of the Crown Prince of Dalbreck, where you
all know better who he really was. They all walked in through the border, and
Lia really felt that she was in the middle of barbarian land since the first
thing she saw were people with black teeth and belt with bones dangling
alongside it.
The Komizar finally
made an appearence here. He was a cold and calm man on the outside, but Lia
knew that beneath his calm gaze, he was calculating her every movements to see
what had made Kaden spare her from his task to slit her throath. I’m instantly afraid
of this brat, even through words I can easily picture his greediness of power
that he refused to share even a bit. We also get to know his relationship and
history with Kaden, why Kaden was so loyal to a monster like him.
For you who have read
book one, you must be aware of some triangle love that happen here. But I
assure you, there’s no more triangle love than political problems in this book.
We all know that Kaden had quite a feeling for Lia, but it doesn’t make this
book full of love stories and constant battle between Kaden and Rafe, though
you still can feel the tension between them.
As for Lia, she had a
really great character development here. She was stubborn and fierce in the
first book, and here we also see that she was smart, bold, and really really
unafaraid. She began to unravel secrets beneath The Sanctum where she’s kept as
prisoner, and her gift also developed to a whole new step. She began to
understand the history of Venda that actually doesn’t really far from the
history of Morrighan itself, yet so full of lies.
In this book Mary
presents us with truths after truths that you really don’t expect. The Komizar
held a significant rule in this book since Lia and Rafe were in his ‘mercy’.
Lia also discovered that Venda was not what she really imagine at all. There
were so much more that the outside world didn’t understand about it. We also
have Pauline’s point of view here so we still have an eye of what happened in
Morrighan while Lia was in Venda.
I enjoy this book as
much as I enjoy the frst one, if not more. Deception and betrayal aren’t really
different, so you should really prepare to be hooked, so much betrayals that
would be revealed, and the ending, ah yes you’d want to tear your hair because
Mary leaves us hanging again. This ending makes me expect a whole new stories
in book three that I’m sure will not be less intriguing. You should pick this
up as soon as possible.
Love, Rose.
My rating : 5 stars
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