What would you do to save a sister?As the last mortal kingdom of Kepler resists the Immortal Empire, its young queen faces a devastating attack. Queen Vivian is two minutes into her reign when an arrow pierces her heart and infects her with the Immortality Virus. But she has too much magic to become immortal and not enough to survive. She must find more magic fast, or she’ll die.Meanwhile, … die.
Meanwhile, another young mortal faces an uncertain future of her own. Carina is fleeing for her life, but her magic is a tracking beam for immortals. She must learn to harness and control it, or she’ll be captured and killed. Then she meets the queen of South Kepler.
Vivian needs Carina’s magic, and she can offer safe haven in exchange. But can Vivian trust this common girl? Carina isn’t on the kingdom’s registry of magicians. What if she’s a Northern rebel? A spy for the Immortal Empire? And will the truth be revealed in time to save them both?
Sisters of the Perilous Heart is Book One of the Mortal Heritance series. Mortal Heritance is a sci-fi/fantasy series written for young teens and older teens/adults who are young at heart.
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This is the 1st book I’ve read written by Sandra Vasher; she has done a great job at writing a good book; I can’t wait to read more of her books.
The story line caught my attention at the very beginning and kept me interested throughout the entire book.
I loved the chemistry between the characters.
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I’m not typically a Sci-fi reader but I wanted to give this one a try since it said it was Sci-fi/Fantasy. The book was just a little too slow going for my liking. By the middle of the book I gave up and quit reading.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I can’t believe that the book has ended this way and the second one is not here yet
The story is intriguing and in parallel we get glimpses from a far away past that explains the reason why the world is how it is today. A world divided between mortals and immortals.
From the beginning we are entering a world of magic and follow two brothers in their quest to find a cure for their dying sister and in another part of the country we meet two sisters that run from their safe place in order to keep one of them from being captured and killed for having magic.
Carina and her younger sister Miguela are two orphans that were being kept safe by the Sisters of Novi Dupree. Carina has magic but she doesn’t know how to use it and she tries to learn by herself. But the Sisters being the grown-ups that they are forbade her to (I’m totally on Carina’s side with this).
One day, Carina meets a boy around her age – Max, and she almost instantly likes and trust him even though she knows almost nothing about him. He’s cute tho
Miguela is the complete opposite to Carina. She hates magic and doesn’t trust Max at all. She’s a pessimist and almost always she says no. There is no middle way with her.
” it would have been better if Miguela hadn’t been sitting across from them, scowling at Max and peering around so suspiciously at everyone else that no one would sit by her”
“What is that?” Carina asked.
“It’s a blindfold,” he said. “I got the idea from one of the exercises in the book, but this is how warriors always train with their masters. The teacher blindfolds the student to help them hone their other senses.”
Carina was skeptical. “How am I supposed to move something I can’t see?”
“You can’t move something you can see,” Miguela pointed out dryly. “This can’t hurt.”
Max backed away, and there was a pause before he said: “Great. Now Miguela and I are going to take turns throwing rocks around you and—”
“You’re going to take turns throwing stuff at me?”
“Sounds like fun, doesn’t it, Care?” Miguela said, sarcasm dripping from her voice.
Vivian and her brothers Bast and Nate.
Wow! I think I haven’t encountered until now such a perfect description of love between brothers. I love all of them so much.
The way they care and protect their sister made my heart warm
Nate sort of smiled at her.
“I think you’re the only person Bast thought he could always trust to be there for him. He’s angry at you because he thinks if you loved him the way he loves you, you’d know that he needs you, and you’d let him help you so that he can keep you. So, he’ll come around. Eventually. He can’t lose you.”
At her coronation ceremony Vivian is shot and poisoned with the immortality virus. Her magic being the only thing that kept her alive. Her brothers came to her rescue and keep her alive by giving from their magic to her.
She isn’t sure who tried to kill her and she suspects even her own mother. So the three brothers travel to meet the guru in the mountains to help cure her.
During their travel Vivian kept assessing and comparing everything to how was since she lived at the palace. Her clothes, the carriage, the quality of the bed she slept in.. But she never complained. A queen never does
Instead, she thought about how she could change things and how to remove the corruption from the Gandhi council:
“Her favorite shoes came from an upscale boutique in Gandhi. She didn’t want them tarnished by corruption.”
Because they were riding horses and traveled by coach I couldn’t stop imagining them wearing old fashioned clothes
Their powers were telekinesis, thermodynamics, and telesthesia. Nate can talk to animals and I think Carina can too. Bast perceives lies and Vivian can perceive connections.
This is so cool that she can see the connections in different colored lines, red representing rage and mortal enemies while blue represents loyalty.
“The paternal connection was supposed to be orange-gold. That’s how it was between Vivian and her father. But with Herschel and the boys, it was always a more tarnished color. Bast at least had an orange-blue connection with Mom, who probably wasn’t capable of an orange-gold relationship with anyone. Nate’s connection to Mom was piss-gray. The only way she could have cared less about him is if she had never met him.”
Throughout the story is clear that almost everyone has something to hide or they are not who they say they are: Miguela, Max, Bast, Nate, Brandon, Franklin/Leo (I believe they are one and the same), Sister Agda and even the guru.
I haven’t mentioned the queen’s mother because she isn’t hiding anything, I know exactly what she wants
The ending was painful and left me with a lot of questions that hopefully will be answered in the next book. I hope it will be released as soon as possible
Thank you BookSirens for welcoming me in your team and giving me this ARC for an honest review
Received as an ARC copy, this is an honest review. A bizarre combination of fantasy science fiction focusing on a virus that has dire implications. Queen Vivian needs the help of Carina, mortal with powerful magic that could help Vivian against the virus. The fantasy elements were exciting but the the use of other genre ideas felt out of place and not needed.
This book was confusing. Through most of it, my one question was WTH?! The relationship between Vivian, Nate, an Bast, was messed up beyond reason. Much of what happened between them made no sense. This book left me utterly and completely confused! The storyline is contrived and completely useless. I have no idea what I just read. This story just does not come together cohesively. I hate leaving bad reviews, but this one is not ready. The story makes no sense.
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