Book Review | Servant of Earth
Notes, quotes, & final thoughts; a review that’s honest, thoughtful, and a little chaotic
Say hello to a new forever favorite and can I say, I hope it becomes a movie one day?! Thrilled to be able to dive right into book 2! Wonderful world building, great chemistry, enchanting and engaging; I found myself quickly tearing through this. One of the fastest over 400 page books I’ve ever read and I loved every minute of it.
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📖 Servant of Earth by Sarah Hawley | 450 pages pub Ace / Berkley
⭐️ 5 stars loved it so much!
The background / tropes / read if you enjoy:
⚠️ Thoughtful author content warning
💘 Romantasy; fairies, fae, asrai, pixies +
📝 Themes/plot: winter solstice sacrifice
🔥 Steamy
🤣 Made me laugh
😭 Made me cry
Thought and notes:
I went in relatively blind and was ready for the magic; I was excited to have a gorgeous book in my hands by an author I’ve enjoyed before!
Earth, Fire, Light, Illusion, Void, and Blood: “We worship the magic itself… we worship the six Sacred Shards it originally came from.”
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Favorite Quotes:
✨ Hunger is the most efficient way to lower one’s standards.
✨ I had escaped the bog, but I was still surrounded by monsters.
✨I wanted to move like that: like silk and lightening, like elegant death.
✨ “A lot of things in life aren’t fair, but all we can do is get through them as best we can and try to make the world better.”
✨ What do you want? To be loved. To be touched. To be free. Then do it.
✨ It would be a reminder that not everything had to be difficult, and that sometimes the solutions to my problems were right under my nose.
✨You are Blood House reborn.
✨ Hope was what we made it. I wasn’t going to wait for someone else to create that future for me. I was going to seize it with my own two hands, then carve it into a shape I wanted.Check out my Substack blog for more bookish content, miscellaneous notes, and joyful finds!
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