Our MC is what Harry Potter readers would call a squib that is, she is born to magical parents but she's useless with magic. The premise, a Victorian-era setting in which magic is openly practice and valued by the nobles of society, is kind of interesting. Random-ass Gypsy boy whom she's met like twice.īut first things first. 3: Gábor took two steps toward me, crushed me to his chest-and kissed me. The cousin thing doesn't bother me as much as the love-triangle-square-hexagon-whatever. I did not want Mátyás to kiss me.Ī tiny bloom of excitement unfurled in my stomach. A nobleman who kissed not only our MC, Anna, but her sister, Catherine. Freddy bent his head and laid a kiss like a prayer on my mouth. 1: I was absurdly aware of how close his mouth was to mine, of the fluttering of my pulse in my throat, of the cold stars overhead. Before like a third of the book, the main character has already kissed three different guys. And I kissed the man she’d hoped to marry.”Oh my god this book is so awful and silly. In the company of nobles, revolutionaries, and Romanies, Anna must choose: deny her unique power and cling to the life she’s always wanted, or embrace her ability and change that world forever.

Isolated from the only world she cares about, Anna still can’t seem to stop herself from breaking spells.Īs rebellion spreads across the region, Anna’s unique ability becomes the catalyst everyone is seeking. Not the society she’s known all her life, for discontent with the Luminate is sweeping the land. Not the people around her, from her aloof cousin Noémi to the fierce and handsome Romani Gábor. In Hungary, Anna discovers that nothing is quite as it seems.

But her fate takes another course when, after inadvertently breaking her sister’s debutante spell-an important chance for a highborn young woman to show her prowess with magic-Anna finds herself exiled to her family’s once powerful but now crumbling native Hungary. Though her family is part of the Luminate, powerful users of magic, she is Barren, unable to perform the simplest spells. Sixteen-year-old Anna Arden is barred from society by a defect of blood. In a world where social prestige derives from a trifecta of blood, money, and magic, one girl has the ability to break the spell that holds the social order in place.

Blood Rose Rebellion by Rosalyn Eves