Published by Self-published Genres: Fantasy
Format: eARC
BLURB:
A fifteen-year-old girl with a gift for violence and nothing left to lose, Constanter is running. To escape the farm she grew up on in a remote part of the Western Lorian empire. To forget the family and the life she can never return to. She runs east, toward the distant war she knows only from the tales of travelers—a twenty-year long conflict, opposing the Western and Eastern halves of the empire.
Mistaken for a boy after she stole the gear of a dead soldier, she is captured and drafted by a band of mercenaries whose leader recognizes her innate speed and agility. Her face hidden under a mask, Constanter surrenders to the anger she wears like a second skin and becomes Silverlegs, a legendary killer, an uncontrollable weapon in the hands of power-hungry rulers and religious fanatics.
As the Western empire spirals into madness in the name of the One God, Constanter will have to choose what she truly fights for, before Silverlegs’s rage leads her down the road to hell…
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Trigger warnings:
Silverlegs is a grimdark fantasy novel set in a world inspired by the late Roman empire. The heroine evolves in an environment that is violent, classist, misogynistic, and homophobic. This book questions religious fanaticism. It contains elements of sexual violence, rape, and graphic violence.
CHRISTINA’S FOUR STAR REVIEW:
Let me start by mentioning that I am a Fantasy/PNR lover and literally search out new books and authors to keep up with my past time. So when I came across this book on NetGalley, I jumped at the opportunity to read it, and I wasn’t disappointed.
Constanter is a young girl living in a “all man” world so to speak. You know, women are better off in the kitchen and used as whores type of world. So when she runs away from home after being assaulted by a family member, returning wasn’t an option. Especially after she found a dead soldiers armor and dressed herself in it.
Now that she’s wearing the armor and searching for a way to survive, she’s kidnapped by mercenaries and thrown in to yet another world. A world she either acts like a boy to survive, or admit her true nature and risk her life as whore. Which one would you choose? I don’t blame her one bit.
But something happened while she was “acting” like a boy. She became more. She starting enjoying the bleed shed and the way her rage freed her. So the “acting” continued. But how long can she keep up the act?
This has so many layers of stories and conquests. There are many characters that worm their way in to your heart so much that you’ll continue to feel their story even when this one is over.
The author did a great job creating a world that mixes medieval times with a little fantasy. All in all, this was great and I can’t wait to see Constanter do her thing!!!
BOOK INFORMATION:
Purchase link to all retail outlets: https://books2read.com/u/baW6V2
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45549841
AUTHOR INFORMATION:
Camilla Monk is a virtually unknown author who somehow tricked a bunch of people into publishing books about ostriches and killer platypuses.
A French native who grew up in a Franco-American family, she taught English and French in Tokyo before returning to France to work in advertising. After ten years spent building rickety websites for financial companies, she now lives and writes in Montreal, where she keeps a close watch on the squirrels and complains on a daily basis about the egregious number of Tim Hortons.
Her writing credits include the English resumes and cover letters of a great many French friends, and some essays as well. She’s also the critically acclaimed author of a few passive-aggressive notes pasted in her building’s elevator.
Camilla is not seeking representation or traditional publishing deals at the moment.
Website: www.camillamonk.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/camillamonkofficial/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/camilla_monk
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