House of Ash and Shadow – Leia Stone

Born cursed to feel pain any time someone touches her skin, Fallon Brookshire lives a relatively quiet life with her adopted father in their quiet village of magicless fae in the village of Isariah, three hours away from The Gilded City.

That is until one day where her father gets an infection and needs a tincture or healer and she illegally enters The Gilded City and breaks into the apothecary store. Instead of calling the guards the fae woman who owns the store informs her that the tincture won’t work and she’ll need a healer. Student healers at the Academy need to work on different illnesses and although she doesn’t live in the city, one male healer offers to help her, on the condition that she return with him to the city as he can smell immense magic on her.

What she doesn’t expect is that the student healer, Ariyon, happens to be the Queen’s nephew and heir to the throne, but that he is also the only man who can touch her without causing her pain. When he learns that she is cursed, he knows who she is and tells her to never go back to the city.

Later that day, guards from the city arrive in Isariah to take Fallon to the city for questioning, they touch her skin until she passes out and wakes up in a cell overhearing the Queen and the Academy Headmaster talking about her mother and how dangerous she is.

She does enter the academy, makes friends and enemies, and learns more about her curse and her biological mother.

The book ends off with a nightling attack and Ariyon and Fallon switching powers before he’s taken to the realm of eternity after Marissa “kills” him.

I won’t give away anymore of the story because it gets really good and I want you to experience it like I did, with a broad knowledge of what happens without the intricate details that flesh out the storyline.

Leia Stone has once again created a world full of characters that we love and hate, especially Fallon who has so much to overcome and prove herself good while everyone expects her to be dark.

PAGE COUNT: 306 Pages

TROPE: Fantasy – Romance – Enemies—to-lovers – Found Family

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