Secrets and Stardust by Jeannin Counts

Secrets and Stardust by Jeannin Counts | A Review

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Welcome to Quills and Pages. I am writing this review with mixed feelings. On the one hand, I found this amazing beautiful book and on the other hand, it shattered my heart and now I don't know what to do....laugh....cry, or scream.....lol. I am presenting you Secrets and Stardust by Jeannin Counts.

BLURB

The stars are not what they seem. So look away; they’ll whisper you your fate.
Iyana’s only ambition in life is to become a healer like her grandmother, but that all changes when her village is attacked by a neighboring kingdom. She desperately calls upon the heavens for salvation and the stars respond, yet not as she had ever imagined. She is sent Altair, a hypnotically handsome star in human form. Iyana is more shocked to discover that she is an Aztia, a magic bearer born once in every generation, and that a captured enemy soldier named Emmeric is unwittingly caught up in her destiny.
Although he is fated to work with Iyana, Emmeric is reluctant to assist a woman from the village he was recently trying to destroy, no matter how spellbinding her beauty is. He trusts his rival Altair even less, as the star and Iyana are caught in each other’s orbit.
When the emperor’s own son, Zane, joins their quest to stop his father’s tyrannical invasion, the companions begin unveiling long-buried secrets that echo through time. Secrets that could change the course of human history and reveal the hidden origin of the Aztia themselves.
A captured foe. A fallen star. A forsaken prince.
Betrayal is inevitable. But who will perpetrate it?

GENRE
Romantasy

TROPES

☙ Enemies to Friends

☙ Love Triangle

☙ Forced Proximity

☙ Found Family

☙ Ancient Prophecies

☙ Epic World with Lore and Mythology

☙ A Big Magical Library

☙ Chosen One

☙ Hidden or Locked Magic

☙ A Big Plot-Twist

MY REVIEW

I was lucky enough to have an arc of this book through mtmc book tours last year but then I got it on Kindle and started reading it. I didn't know what I was in for. It was like any other Romantasy in the start....a chosen healer, a brooding shining MMC, another golden retriever MMC, and then this amazingly beautiful world and a big desert.....the legend of stars and ancient prophecies.....and a very powerful cruel enemy. Everything was perfect and then the end happened.

I am coming to terms with the ending...because from that ending you cannot go back to the good old days it's only going to get worse.....and I am sad for these 2 people.....Many will say the said MMC is toxic as hell and is a big walking Red Flag....but a heart wants what it wants. I know it.... I have a feeling it's gonna be brutal in the second book. I received the arc for the second book and I am so scared to start it....well I read the first few chapters and I am effing scared but I have to finish it soon. On the whole, this is a duology...amazing writing, storytelling, dialogue delivery, and banter. It's a 5-star without any questions and I highly recommend it. Go read it.

MY RATING
Overall: ★★★★★ | 5 Stars

Plot: ★★★★★| 5 Stars

Romance: ★★★★★ | 5 Stars

Characters:★★★★★ | 5 Stars

Pacing: ★★★★★| 5 stars

Mystery: ★★★★★| 5 stars

Banter: ★★★★★| 5 stars

Ending: ★★★★★| 5 Stars

Spice Level: 🌶🌶 | Level 2

Book Cover:★★★★★★★★★★| 10 Stars

THE BEST PART

☙ Altair and the concept that a star falls from the sky just for this girl who wished it.

☙ The whole Mythology going on in the background

☙ This trio: Altair, Emmeric, and Iyana....❤

BEST WORDS

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