From Goodreads:
The truth will test you...
For fans of Game of Thrones and The Hunger Games: high fantasy and dystopia meet in this high-stakes tale of a civilization built on lies and the girl who single-handedly brings it down.
When Eva's twin brother, Eamon, falls to his death just a few months before he is due to participate in The Testing, no one expects Eva to take his place. She's a Maiden, slated for embroidery classes, curtseys, and soon a prestigious marriage befitting the daughter of an Aerie ruler. But Eva insists on honoring her brother by becoming a Testor. After all, she wouldn't be the first Maiden to Test, just the first in 150 years.
Eva knows the Testing is no dance class. Gallant Testors train for their entire lives to search icy wastelands for Relics: artifacts of the corrupt civilization that existed before The Healing drowned the world. Out in the Boundary Lands, Eva must rely on every moment of the lightning-quick training she received from Lukas—her servant, a Boundary native, and her closest friend now that Eamon is gone.
But there are threats in The Testing beyond what Lukas could have prepared her for. And no one could have imagined the danger Eva unleashes when she discovers a Relic that shakes the Aerie to its core.
My Review:
I had such a great time reading this book! The idea of a girl taking her brother's place-a dangerous place-when she could've had an easy life, to one where it's dangerous, but provides a vital service and at the same time disrupts gendor roles, yeah, I loved that idea!
This book has some great comparisons, but another one I would make would be the Testing series by Joelle Charbonneau, with a world that has been broken down, and being tested by something called the Testing. And I enjoyed this one just as much as I did that one!
Eva had two reasons to compete in the testing. One was that her brother was supposed to do it, but it was his last wish that she do it. And the other was that she's been slated as a Maiden, and she wants to prove that Maiden's can do more then play house.
The adventure that she goes on, to find an artefact from the old world, was really great, to explore this world and see what it's like after civilization crumbled, and watching her survive in these harsh conditions! And oh, do things happen! It has me really excited for book 2!
Loved reading this book and I can't wait to read the sequel!
Author: Heather Terrell
Series: The Books of Eva #1
Read: November 28th, 2022
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: Sounded fantastic, and it's a 2022 Dystopia Book and a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2022 Book!
Publisher: Soho Teen
Published: October 29th 2013
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