Daughter of No Worlds (The War of Lost Hearts Book 1)

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I LOOOOOVE a good trainer-trainee trope, and this book definitely hit the nail on the head for me, so I highly recommend if you also enjoy an exploration of this type of relationship! Moth, breaker of flowers, spy glasses, pitchers, and hearts," Max mused, shaking his head. "He is your apprentice after all, Sammerin."

now with the issues i did have…the world-building felt nonexistent. this series is called war of lost hearts but like why are there so many wars? who what when where why how?! although i did get some of my answers i felt like i was missing something the entire time. it also didn’t help there was no map 😒 Every moment in life was a coin with one dark side and one light. They fell on the ground with one side facing up, but the other always lay beneath it, there, but hidden.” I specially appreciated how Miss Broadbent handled sensitive topics such as abuse and rape and Tissanah's complicated emotions towards her former master. Her personality is not flawless, her insecurities are not brushed under the rug and most importantly, her traumatic experiences don't disappear after a few chapters. A former slave fighting for justice. A warrior who no longer believes it exists. A deadly magic that binds their fates. The way she sacrificed everything just to save her friends and her town safe ejdnrkeududyeo queen/ badass behavior right there 😩👀🤭🤌🏻 AND HER RELATIONSHIP WITH SEREL?!? That was so so wholesome I wanna cry now 😭🥺I really liked the world. I think we got a good enough understanding of the politics and the magic system was fascinating. Though I’m hoping for more in the next two books. THE LANGUAGE BARRIER Tisannah had was really entertaining to read and added a lot of funny moments. I have never read a book where the main character had a poor grasp of the language spoken but it was so well done in this book! A fragmented girl who has no home and no family except a friend Serel in threll and she is determined to set all the slaves free from the cruelty of the world she lived in and where she gave all of herself to the men who never knew how incredible she is. She is intelligent and a badass with relentless determination who always fights for whats better no matter what. I loved her so much and her character development in this was amazingly written. I hope she kills all the people who gave her those battle scars and ahe deserves all the happiness in this world and Max ❤️‍🩹 I instantly knew I was going to fold for Max…there’s just something about him that I can’t quite put my finger on… dark hair, blue eyes, high cheek bones, ripped bod…hmmm yeah not too sure what it could have been… My name is Tisaanah. I am a free woman and yet still a slave. I am fragments of many things but a whole of only myself. I am a daughter of no worlds, and all worlds.

I thought I would try writing a coherent and fully developed review for once, rather than just spewing my emotions into a few lines 💭 Tissanah is an interesting character that I knew I'd love since the first chapter. She's determined and stubborn, optimistic but without being overly so or annoying, talented but no goddess. I liked that the first part of book we mainly see her training and perfectioning her powers, nothing came to her easily or in a silver platter. She worked for all she is and has and let me just say how much I enjoyed her struggling to learn a new lenguange, her confusion was as adorable as relatable to me as non-native speaker. Tisaanah is literally the perfect example of the fierce female fantasy character- and I LOVE HER 😍😍 I think Carissa Broadbent did such an amazing job crafting her character- she literally had sm depth and her character development throughout this book was amazing. She has been through SO MUCH and reading about her past and how awfully people have treated her- it simultaneously made me SO sad and SO angry 😭😖 I can't imagine going through the things Tisaanah has gone through- but she still manages to keep going and keep fighting. And I love her for that ❤ the character development in this was SO good. tisaanah went from a slave who was afraid of alot of things to a powerful & determined woman. i cannot wait to start book two. i adored max and tisaanah's relationship they love and trust each other and i love that. Ahzeen takes Tisaanah to his office to whip her. Tisaanah knows that Resahye draws from very deep magic, perhaps deep enough that it can circumvent the effects of the Chryxalis. She calls upon Resahye and turns herself over to it completely, killing Ahzeen and once again losing control.

I personally found the second half was stronger than the first half. There’s something that was introduced that made me want to keep reading. Max is so respectful & loving, & even though he would NEVER do it, there’s just something inside me that would 100% thank him & beg for more if he happened to run me over with a car [*cue feminism leaving my body*] 🫡

Disent world building. Not to diatailed you get bored, but you get a good sense of the world they live in and where they are. Why did the narrator make the protagonist sound like a whiny, pre-pubescent boy? All of the other characters were performed well and given (in my opinion) demeanors appropriate for their personality. But for some reason Tisaanah is portrayed in a way that grated against my ears. A former slave fighting for justice. A reclusive warrior who no longer believes it exists. And a dark magic that will entangle their fates.Ripped from a forgotten homeland as a child, Tisaanah learned how to survive with nothing but a sharp wit an... The fact that Tisaanah couldn’t speak Max’s language very well at first also created some funny and lighter moments that counterbalanced the more serious tone of their discussions. Once, many years ago, he had told me that his grandfather used to say that every moment in life was a coin with one dark side and one light. They fell on the ground with one side facing up, but the other always lay beneath it, there, but hidden. Serel always saw both sides of the coin, even when fate handed him nothing but darkness.”I was too young to know the truth then. That victory meant another’s defeat, and sometimes our own defeat. That winning meant sacrifices, and sometimes ones that even our own people were not willing to make. That in war, someone always paid.”