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

Daughter of No Worlds

Carissa Broadbent

5/5

This is one of the best books I've read this year and I'm still recovering! Tisaanah was enslaved at a young age, forced to use her magic to perform and beg for scraps. She spends nearly a decade saving money to purchase her own freedom but is quickly denied that right. Her journey to revenge and saving her friends is insane with twists that I never saw coming, all the while maintaining her strength of character balanced with her innate goodness.

This is a pretty long book, it has two formal parts but I felt more like there were ten. There are stages as we are given little insights into both main characters, Tisaanah and Maxantarius. Both of their arcs are beautifully defined and I really love the development of their relationship. We shouldn't praise men for doing the bare minimum and being considerate of people who have had traumas (which Tisaanah has had a lot of) but Max is just so genuine. I thought he was going to be the typical male angst-lord, like Rowan from Throne of Glass, but he's unique and so good for Tisaanah. They both have their own friends and all, there's no toxic reliance on each other. Yet simultaneously, they've created this amazing support system that just made me tear up it's so good.

The magic is also a little insane here. There powers are all over the place, like I would love being a magic-user in this universe because the opportunities are crazy unlimited. I hope to see more explanation on what it means to be Fragmented in the sequel, maybe some details into Tisaanah's parentage. I swear I could read a whole book just on the definition of magical principals. Another fun thing that was done here was the use of different languages. It's so easy to say that there's a common-tongue or something, but Tisaanah went through the struggle of self-teaching herself a completely foreign language independently. Then her and Max had a whole little thing where they made their little hybrid language trying to understand each other. It was so cute, and the ways she struggled with certain grammatical things was super endearing and well-explained.

I would strongly recommend this book, I think it deserves so much more credit than its gotten because it was so entertaining. It dealt with difficult topics (like PTSD and Stockholm Syndrome-type-things) extremely well. Can't wait for the sequel!