Name: Blood Solace (Blood Grace series #2)
Author: Vela Roth
Publisher: Five Thorns Press
Date published: February 2022
Genre: Fiction, adult, fantasy, romance
Pages: 614
Rating: 4/5
Lio is out of time. He must reunite with Cassia, his beloved Grace, before his Craving for her blood becomes fatal to him. But the Queens of the Hesperines have closed the border between Orthros and Tenebra with their magic, and he and Cassia are trapped on opposites sides. He must make his own way back to her. He, Orthros’s youngest ambassador, must move his fellow immortal Hesperines from their ancient, unchanging course.
Cassia has made herself the King of Tenebra’s worst enemy. Her father has no idea it is she who secretly sabotages his every attempt at alliance with the Mage Orders of Cordium. But the king and the mages will stop at nothing to make war upon the Hesperines, and Cassia’s own clandestine war can only secure peace for Lio’s people for so long. To truly protect the Hesperine she loves and his kind, she is prepared to take matters into her own hands as never before and make the greatest sacrifice of all.
When a new threat from Cordium descends upon Tenebra, Lio knows Cassia’s life is in as much danger as his own. Can they work together once more across the distance between them? Can they resurrect their broken partnership, which once proved both their peoples’ salvation? And if they rescue Orthros and Tenebra, can they still rescue each other?
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This was a great follow up to the first book, it expanded the world more and it was interesting to learn more about the Hesperines' home and what life was like there. I think the world building was as excellent as the first book, there are so many details and the history behind it all is written with such depth. It felt like a real world and I am looking forward to finding out more about it in the future books.
It was wonderful to see more of Lio and Cassia's development, they are lovely characters to follow and see grow, and I liked to see how they handled things apart and then together and it will be great to see their relationship develop over the rest of the series.
The only problem I had with the book was the pacing, I still enjoyed the story a lot, but it felt more like a build up to future books, rather than a complete story arc that stood on its own. Plenty of things happened in the book but it seemed like a lot more happened at the beginning than at the end so I felt like I was expecting more to happen. I definitely was not bored but it was surprising. The first book was also longer than this one, so I wouldn't have minded if this one had been longer to allow for more of a climax at the end.
Apart from that, I really enjoyed this book and how it continued the story from the first one. It's just really enjoyable to follow these characters and their interactions and see what choices they will make as they are all fascinating and well rounded people. I'm really curious to see what happens in the next books and how all the different threads are resolved.
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