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Starborn (1) (The Worldmaker Trilogy) Hardcover – April 23, 2015

by Lucy Hounsom (Author)
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Death and destruction will bar her way . . . Kyndra's fate holds betrayal and salvation, but the journey starts in her small village. On the day she comes of age, she accidentally disrupts an ancient ceremony, ending centuries of tradition. So when an unnatural storm targets her superstitious community, Kyndra is blamed. She fears for her life until two strangers save her, by wielding powers not seen for an age—powers fueled by the sun and the moon. Together, they flee to the hidden citadel of Naris. And here, Kyndra experiences disturbing visions of the past, showing war and one man's terrifying response. She'll learn more in the city's subterranean chambers, amongst fanatics and rebels. But first Kyndra will be brutally tested in a bid to unlock her own magic. If she survives the ordeal, she'll discover a force greater than she could ever have imagined. But could it create as well as destroy? And can she control it, to right an ancient wrong? With George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones now a huge TV success, fantasy fiction has never been more popular. And these books are traditional fantasy at its very best.

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  1. Book 1 of 3
    The Worldmaker Trilogy
  2. Print length
    512 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Tor
  5. Publication date
    April 23, 2015
  6. Dimensions
    6.25 x 1.7 x 9.5 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    1447268458
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1447268451
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  • adrianne
    5.0 out of 5 stars Enchanting!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2017
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    This book started out a little slow and flat, and there were a couple of places where the main character, Kyndra, did things that I felt were out of character. But after the first third, the story picked up the pace, the plotting became a lot more solid, and the number of questions that needed answers multiplied. I will definitely buy the other two in the trilogy.
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  • JayWalk2010
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great world building
    Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2024
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    Great world building. Mariar is a fascinating world with elements that defy logic until the end. Hounsom does a good job of unveiling her story line upon line so you as the reader aren’t lost. You will have plenty of questions as you read and it will feel like it takes forever to get answers only to have more questions, but I was never confused as I read. I applaud this skill because when reading a book with entirely different laws, lands, and magic systems, it’s easy I think for readers to get lost and overwhelmed by all of the new elements.
    The FMC is relatable, even with her stubborn resolve to ask lots of questions but internally deny truths involving herself. It was both frustrating and understandable. A lot was changing and being thrust upon her in a short amount of time that turned her reality on its head.
    The story could get a little slow at times but was good overall. I’d recommend it to others who like complex fantasy stories.
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  • Jenny miles
    3.0 out of 5 stars interesting,if somewhat bloody
    Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2015
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    A compelling start with original ideas and charismatic characters. The climax turned into - Spoiler Alert!- a bit of a bloodbath the extent of which is arguably a bit extreme.

    Despite this I am looking forward to the next instalment.
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  • James Cliff
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2018
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    It was a slow build up which came to an exciting end. Will definitely read the 2nd one now.
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  • Cayt Landis
    4.0 out of 5 stars To make matters worse, her ceremony does not go as planned
    Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2015
    Starborn by Lucy Hounsom is a unique fantasy tale the introduces a stunning world and a creative magic system. Kyndra is a young woman who grew up in a small village whose only claim to fame is a Relic that foretells each citizen's destiny. On the day of her coming of age Kyndra's village is plagued by an ever-worsening storm. To make matters worse, her ceremony does not go as planned. For unknown reasons, the treasured Relic that has been used for hundreds of years, breaks in Kyndra's hands, destroying the tradition for all generations to come. This, combined with the worsening storm, leads her village to turn on her. Fortuntely for Kyndra, two strangers with strange powers happen to be in town and they save her from mob rule. Predicting that Kyndra has hidden powers of her own, these strangers take her from her village and bring her to their hidden society inside of mountain. Here she must remain, forced to pass a test of her magic power. If she passes, she will be trained in the ways of magic. If she fails, she will die.

    I enjoyed Starborn a lot, though not as much as I had hoped. The writing was very well done. The story flowed well and I was immediately drawn into the adventure. The standout feature of this novel is the fantastic world building. From the locations to the societies to the magic system, everything works together to weave a detailed tapestry of a new fantasy world. I love books that put a lot of effort into the backstory and magic system of a world and Starborn does this well. There is a true history to the land and the characters, without going overboard and info-dumping all over the place. The background and history unfolds as the story progresses.

    The characters, for the most part, were also highly interesting. Kyndra is a fine character who is coming up age and learning to deal with her potential future. She is young and she must leave everything she knows behind, so she is rightfully scared and confused. Still, she is a strong character who stands up for herself no matter what. The secondary characters are also well-developed and believable, with foibles and faults. I enjoyed most characters who were introduced. The only issue I had were with the "villain" character. The few characters who were clearly on the "bad" side didn't have much depth. While they weren't quite mustached-twirling, they could have used some more fleshing out and some layers.

    Overall, the story of Starborn is exciting and keeps you interested as you read. Kyndra's story starts off simple enough, with her preparing for her coming of age ceremony. Soon, though, it becomes obvious that more is going on then meets the eye. Once Kyndra is taken from her village and beings her journey to discover her magic, everything becomes more and more complicated. The truth about Kyndra's birth and her abilities is surprising and the conclusion leaves plenty of room for some fantastic storytelling in the next two books.

    Overall, I enjoyed this book quite a lot. The only real complaint I have is that it was lacking some sort of spark, the type of spark that would bring the rating up to a four or five. Nonetheless, this book is flawlessly written and the story will intrigue any fantasy fans.

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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome books
    Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2017
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    Just love this series
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  • Tales of a Librarian
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great fantasy for fans of Trudi Cannavan
    Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2015
    ARC copy provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

    This is an enjoyable fantasy, somewhere between a pure adventure and an epic. The world building was well done and evocative - managing to conjure images of something like middle earth mixed with medieval England with a few almost steam punk elements and an interesting magic system. It does travel the well worn treads of a young person of ordinary descent suddenly finding out that they have a birthright which shapes their world view anew, however it tackles this in a fresh engaging way, not merely resorting to tired tropes. The plot may contain few surprises for dedicated fantasy fans but it is nevertheless an entertaining journey.

    I found the characterization a bit spotty - none of them really stood out for me although I liked a few of them well enough. A few characters might have benefited from greater exposition, whilst others could have done with less as they didn't really add anything. Kyndra was a puzzle in this regard; one moment she has agency and the next she doesn't and things just happen to her while she passively thinks about them. I did like her but I can't say I really connected with her. There was no great strength or great flaw, nothing to really get a grip on.

    The pace could have done with variation. It wasn't too slow or too fast but it was pretty much the same throughout. Which is fine if you want to follow an epic adventure slightly removed from the action, but I like to be a bit closer to the characters I'm reading. I was pulled back to read the book not out of a need to know what happened next, but out of a desire to visit that world again. If you can have 'ideas fantasy' then this is probably a good example - at one stage almost all the supporting characters, and consequently the choices they represent, are uniformly horrible. However this does call into question the responsibilities of power, the habit of clinging to outmoded beliefs and systems, and the effects of segregation - even the psychology behind the latter.

    It may not have had me on the edge of my seat but I would definitely look out for book two. Quiet, slower fantasy is good if it is done well and this is.
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  • Andrew Wallace
    5.0 out of 5 stars A fine and subtly subversive epic fantasy
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 4, 2018
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    We’ve all been there. Your village relies on an ancient Relic no one understands but which the economy relies on anyway, like Bitcoin. At the annual ritual in which the Relic ascribes professions and even names to the young people of the village, someone breaks the Relic and that someone is you. Then the sky breaks open, weirdly gifted strangers appear and all your friends want to kill you.
    Such is the opening of Lucy Hounsom’s Starborn, in which seemingly luckless Kyndra is the kid none of us want to be, but probably are (regardless of actual age). Not since Katniss put her hand up to take her younger sister’s place in the Hunger Games have I been rooting for a protagonist with quite so much empathy as this one. That none of it is Kyndra’s fault only adds to our interest in her, as does her status as child of a single mother, very real confused grief and decisions that put the interests of others, particularly her stepfather, over her own.
    Granted, she has little idea of what she is agreeing to in her deal with a strange visitor called Bregenne, whose blindness eases under the light of the moon and whose uncanny healing powers are very like those in the storybook Kyndra owns about a magical race called the Wielders. Kyndra’s choice is wholly understandable though and besides, we want her to go with the strangers if only to find out more about them.
    Kyndra wants to stay, however; through a combination of confusion, fear and rebellion that is both youthful protest and an innate part of her character. Kyndra’s insistence on staying in a place that has turned on her so suddenly is part of the theme of loyalty that knits the story together. Throughout the book, characters resist or comply according to power structures they barely understand, even at a higher social or magical level.
    Kyndra herself begins to suffer powerful visions of a destiny that appears to have already taken place, not that this seeming anachronism prevents the condition being dangerous to everyone around her. Inadvertent destruction while engaging in a past that may not even have happened - at least not in the way everyone accepts - makes this epic fantasy wholly relevant as demagogues in our time employ sentimental imagery at the expense of anyone ‘different’.
    Unfortunately for Kyndra, she turns out to be more different than even her mentor Bregenne realises, and there are some uncomfortable scenes in which Kyndra is tested almost to destruction as a means of drawing out her potential. The insistence of the ruling Council on proceeding with these measures simply because they worked before shows the dangers of a rigid hierarchy, even when it is informed by magic.
    The magic system in the novel is based on the sun and the moon, with different Wielders accessing the power to create, heal and destroy at different times of the day. The Starborn are the most powerful of all, with the ability to shape continents and even reality through the power of the stars themselves. There can only be one Starborn alive at any one time, and the last one betrayed and then destroyed the great city of the Wielders five centuries earlier.
    It’s giving little away to say that there is more to all this than appears; what is significant is the complexity of the characters’ motivations. Often we feel we are in a familiar genre situation to do with, say, bullying at an educational establishment that deals in magic; then the author will twist the story unexpectedly. One young male antagonist, for example, is motivated by love for another older and more powerful male character who manipulates him, rather than simple hatred for Kyndra.
    There are a couple of great trickster characters as well; including the dashing Kait, who is a sort of female Han Solo with great hair and whose agenda, while opposed to that of her rival Bregenne, is perhaps not as evil and deluded as Kyndra is led to believe; and Medavle, who you know is going to be trouble because everyone tells Kyndra to stay out of his way. Sure, his name sounds a bit like ‘devil’, but he is engagingly mischievous and also saves Kyndra’s life. Medavle too has unknown depths; part of a powerful species bred specially for service (there’s that nasty hierarchy again), he acts as he does because he believes himself to be alone.
    It’s another example of how magic does not make the lives of the Wielders any easier. They are susceptible to the same pettiness, anxiety and fear as those who do not share their gifts. The novel is very successful in depicting these dynamics, especially when conjoined with tensions brought about by unfair power structures.
    But it is in the character of Kyndra that the novel really succeeds. A decent soul, she is horrified when she feels she is letting everyone down, from the people in her village to Bregenne, who shoulders the blame when Kyndra fails the tests. It is a strength of the writing that we share Kyndra’s sense of responsibility for this situation, even though none of it is her doing.
    The most significant aspect of Kyndra is that she is a female protagonist in a successful epic fantasy, along with two powerful mentors in Bregenne and Kait; all of whom not only have agency and significance, but are the whole point of the novel. It’s worth making clear as well that the male characters have heft and importance, particularly the thoughtful Nadiah. Nadiah is a healer, which is normally a role ascribed to female characters; his skill at it in this story is in no way emasculating; indeed, the quiet subversion creates a very original character. Kyndra, then, is in good company as she negotiates a dangerous but often beautiful fantasy landscape.
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  • F. T.
    2.0 out of 5 stars Kyndra and many others are not very intelligent
    Reviewed in Germany on July 25, 2015
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    Kyndra is the main character and I can tell you that she is pretty stupid.
    She does not realize the most obvious things even though they are hinted directly at her over and over and over again. But the same is true with the People who do the hinting. They are all so stupid that I doubt that they would survive more than a week in the real world.

    An simple example for Kyndras idiocy is that "everyone" tells her not to trust Janus and that is is important she does not..... but she does. The reason? Because he was nice to her at about two occasions. Not a convincing reaction at all. The entire book is about "what she is", and how everyone does not see what she is, while the big SPOILER for the great revelation is obvious from page 20 onwards, because the spoiler is the title of the book!

    To see people like this so very much just makes me sad about the low quality of story telling satisfaction readers have degenerated to. And this leads to more books that do not care about good and plausible characters or plots.

    Towards the end I started to skip pages here and there and did not miss anything relevant by the way. :/
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  • Matthias K.
    2.0 out of 5 stars Did not finish
    Reviewed in Germany on February 20, 2018
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    Gave up about 100 pages. I could not get into it really. Somehow I didn't connect with the character or the struggle. Despite a theoretically fascinating world something stopped me from getting into it. YMMV.
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  • Alisha Bookseller
    4.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 18, 2016
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    Well. What a debut! I'm a huge fantasy fan, we all know this, and Starborn has lodged itself a place as one of my new favourites! Why? Because it was completely perfect. I mean, I only meant to read the first chapter or so and I ended up reading loads and getting to sleep way late but I got too wrapped up in the story! I don't want to be too spoilery but I do have to say there's a bit that gave me kind of Hogwarts vibes, if ya know....Hogwarts was inside a mountain and you had to be tortured to get in, and ya know...people where shady as. Honestly, I don't know why my brain went oooohhh how Hogwartsy but it did, and it's a more grown up Hogwarts, as it where. It has a super cool archives that I need in my life. Just saying!

    The world of the book and the history that goes with it is so completely rich and I enjoyed learning about it. You learned the right amount, when you needed to know it and there where no pages and pages of background information! It's all worked in to the narrative and the extract from Kyndra's book! I'd like to see more extracts! The book dives straight in, immediately immersing you in to the world as you read and the world starts to take form around you. It's very cinematic and very vivid.

    The book pulls you in from the start as it piques your curiosity. What is the relic? What's going to happen? What's going to happen NOW? Who are they? And so on. There's plenty of little intrigues to go along with the compelling writing that keeps you reading longer than you should! I was completely hooked on the mysteries of the book, and finding out more about the world and more about what was going to happen to Kyndra.

    Starborn maintains a steady pace throughout the book, a little slow at the beginning and at some points there wasn't much focus to the plot and when I took a break from reading I reflected and realised not much had happened. It was very plot driven in the beginning! The book is, however, steeped in mystery, there's so much for you to guess at and try to work out and the plot feeds you little pieces to help you try to put it together! There are plenty of surprises within the plot, I mean I knew Kyndra was something, and I had a pretty good idea what that something was but I was still surprised with how it came about and there where times when I thought I'd got it all wrong! The book went in a completely different direction to what I thought it would as well!

    I loved Kyndra right from the start, and then when her BFF was being a douche and she did the whole "I have a name" thing I was like "YOU GO KYNDRA!" and forever loved her after that! I felt for her throughout the entire book, especially with all the stuff with her friends. That doesn't mean there weren't points in the book when I wanted to give her a shake, because there where a few moments like that. I mean, she acknowledged she was doing something she shouldn't and that others where trying to help her and so on. Her visions where such a source of intrigue and told a mini story within the main story so I was surprised that they weren't focused on by some other characters more.

    Bregenne and Nedia intrigued me from the start, and I'd guessed about their magic but still wanted to know more about who they are and what their magic does and where they're from and so on. At times their motivations where a bit unclear to me, I wasn't sure if they where good or bad at some points in the beginning, but it turned around when they got their own POV's.

    Bregennes POV was genuinely fantastic because you got to know her and her motivations became clear and you gained an understanding of her character and her behaviour. At times she seemed cold and a little bid shady but after getting a glimpse in to her mind you see how she operates and start to come to like her. Nediah's POV, again, gave you an understanding of his motivations and where he stands. There where other POV's as well briefly Medvale the shadowy stranger, and a couple of Janus, although I will admit, while it was useful to see his motivations and find out that something dodgy was going on, there where a couple of bits that seemed a bit unnecessary for him, once you knew what he was up to.

    The POV's where well done, the changes come when you need them and really brought the book in to it's own, you finally started to connect with the other characters and get an idea of the world of the book. They added to the story, helped you to understand the characters, what they're going through and so on.

    Part one of the book was almost like a huge adventure with them travelling to the place where the majority of the book is set and where all the action takes place. I found part one to be the main part that was a bit slow, it was all Kyndra's POV, and while it was almost like an adventure, not much actually happened on the adventure. Except for the sky ship. The sky ship was super cool! It was also the source of most of the action in part one, along with events at the village! ANYWAY. When we come in to Part Two, we get more POV's and more is going on and there's more intrigues and mysteries to work out and the book really comes into it's own then.

    The world building of the book is the main strength of the book. It's unique, and like I said, very rich and really brings the book to life. There's magic, obviously, and there's so much more to the world than you originally realise. It's a big world as it is, but by the end of the book it becomes even bigger, and you realise the full potential of the next book with all the different places to explore, as well as the high stakes! There's a lot of politics in this book among the Wielders and the council members, and Bregenne breaking rules and so on. There's a lot of backstabbing and scheming going on, and it looks like in the next book there's going to be more politics on a larger scale. The politics of the book and the world of the book, where completely fascinating as you try to work out who's up to what! I'm telling you one character completely gets what's coming to them! Although ya know...this other horrible character is still alive and kicking, but hopefully book two will fix that! (I blame Game of Thrones for this argh kill all the evil, mentality).

    The book really does excel at making you feel emotion, I felt heartbroken for Kyndra more than once, I felt angry on her behalf more than once. I could understand where she was coming from and why she made every decision that she did, and even when she was doing stupid things, and she knew she was being unfair and you knew she was being unfair......you could still understand why she was doing it.

    The main characters where an interesting bunch, and there's more to them than meets the eye. I'd like to know more about Nediah in particular, we learned a bit about Bregenne but not so much about Nediah, and obviously we know loads about Kyndra! There are plenty of supporting cast that are also well created and brought to life in the book, like Iri! I loved Iri immediately, and I was really disappointed at one point but then she continued to be awesome so it was no problem! I wasn't sure of Gareth and Shika in the beginning but by the end of the book, they became part of the crew, and I'm eager to know more about them. Gareth has done the thing he wasn't supposed to do and is clearly suffering the consequences, which'll be interesting to watch play out! But he, Shika and Iri still have an air of mystery to them and I'm hoping we'll get to see more of them in the next book and learn more about them!

    The bad characters are the ones you kind of really, really hate but like hating them. Aledrand for example (seriously can we kill him please?!) was horrible and you just wanted to smack him one but at the same time he was a little bit pathetic and petty! There's another horrible character but that one's name will be too spoilery but honestly, he was such a good villain for the book! Janus I wanted to like, really I did and I was hoping he'd do the right thing but nope. Shame. I'm interested to see where the author goes with him next! I liked how with one character, he turned out to be more than we thought, but like...you kind of saw why he did what he did, but you saw two perspectives of him and what he did and it was interesting because he thought he was doing the right thing, but he did go about it in a horrible way.

    The ending of Starborn paves the way for the next book, I had not expected the direction it was going, and it tied up the story from this book, while having plenty of new possibilities open up and an already large world opens up in to a larger one ready to be explored. There's new issues that have come to light that will come in to play in the next book, and I'm excited to see how it all plays out!
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  • Samantha
    3.0 out of 5 stars All the pieces are there, but something's missing.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 6, 2015
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    I wanted to fall utterly, head over heels in love with Starborn, I really did. It has everything I look for in a good read - kick ass heroine, magical powers, epic world building, mystery, mythology and gorgeous writing. Yes the book blurb is about as cliched as you're likely to find in fantasy, but it ticks all the boxes. And I liked it. I just didn't love it. This was the hardest review I've written for my blog so far because it's so hard to put my feelings into words. I guess if I had to summarise them in one word, it would be disappointed.

    First off, the storytelling is as beautiful as the book itself. Hounsom's writing is a joy, and her attention to detail in the history and mythology of the lands she has created scored big book points with me. From the gorgeous world map that greets you when you open the pages to the mysterious flashbacks that pepper the story. There are shades of Labyrinth by Kate Mosse - one of my favourite books ever - in Hounsom's storytelling, and her world building is truly epic. If anything, I'd say it's a little too good, sometimes putting her characters in the shade. It's not an easy read and there's a lot of information to take in, with exposition coming right up into the final chapters, but this is truly a world to get lost in.

    For me though, this type of book lives and dies by it's protagonist(s) and that's where it fell short for me. What can I say about Kyndra Vale? The problem is, not an awful lot. Firstly, she's quite hard to gauge, sometimes she fearless and feisty, and other times she seems little more than a reader stand in for exposition rather than making her own choices, and when she does they're wildly inconsistent. In one chapter, she's trying to escape her apparent captors and fleeing for home, even though she knows that if she is caught she will face death. But in another chapter, after she's bound with magic and borderline sexually assaulted by a supporting character, she's suddenly friends with him a few pages later without so much as an apology. What drives her? What does she want from her position? What does she want for her future? Who knows. It's a problem that never really resolves itself until the final chapters, making her seem like a supporting character in her own story. I've read the entire book and would struggle to come up with a single defining characteristic for her. The revelations about who and what Kyndra is were incredibly easy to see coming, her unique and special snowflake-ness coming off as a little too twee for my tastes.

    The POV shifts inconsistently too which doesn't help. We start off with Kyndra, before moving somewhat jarringly to Bregenne, one of the wielders who rescued her, then back and forth, with other supporting characters occasionally in the mix too. This sometimes happened in the middle of chapters with no more warning than a paragraph break and no supporting characters really stood out from the pack, with the exception of secondary protagonist Bregenne, a blind lunar wielder. Her chapters highlight my issues with Kyndra. We get under the skin of Bregenne, you feel like she believes in her cause, you know what motivates her and why she does the things she does. It's a shame we spend so little time with her.

    The final chapters are where Kyndra finally begins to come into her own and Hounsom explores the idea of what it means to be a hero rather than a villain and how whichever path you chose will ultimately see you vilified by some and worshipped by others. It's an interesting concept rather than the usual cookie cutter good guys vs bad guys, with a heroine who isn't afraid to ask "why". It's only a shame that this happened as the book was winding down because this is where the pieces felt like they were finally coming together.

    All of the elements are here for a fantastic series, albeit one suffering from something of an identity crisis. Pared down to its bare bones, the plot is pure YA - teenage girl finds out that she has long lost world saving powers and must overcome trials and treachery to save the day, but the storytelling and slower pace however is more traditional fantasy. I did enjoy the book, I just felt that for all the work that has clearly gone into it, something was missing. That said, the final chapters pulled it back. Had the whole book been written with that Kyndra, it would be a four or five star read. I'll definitely be picking up the next book when it comes out now that Lucy Hounsom has set up her world and her heroine, I just hope that it picks up where this one left off and doesn't go back to the start!

    Review originally posted at http://www.mikaylasbookshelf.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/starborn-review.html.
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