He is a slave, and forced to fight in the arena, yet it also constantly gains him the attention of the Empress who does terrible things to him, in and out of her bed. ➽ Azarion – The prime gladiator of the empire for the last ten years. The slavers never knew they brought the same woman from Beroe to Kraelag year after year.” Her skills with illusion were as refined as they were with fire. She’d returned to the capital time and again with a different face. Well, she didn’t think anyone could notice. Even though she has to endure the torture of the night, she is able to walk free from the fire every year, without anyone noticing. ➽ Gilene – Fire witch who has been the sacrificial girl for her village for the last four years, using her magic to disguises herself as a new girl. The empire is the farthest thing from forgiving, and both our main characters witness this first hand. And if a village refuses to give up a girl, they will be made an example of.
Don’t show them yours.”īut in this world, every year the surrounding villages are forced to give the empire girls to be given to the gladiators for the night, to only be burned at a pyre come morning. Content and trigger warnings for rape (brief, but at the very start of the book), attempted rape, threats of rape, assault, slavery, captivity, death, murder, torture, gore, violence, sacrificial ritual, blood depiction, self-harm, misogynistic comments, sexual content and war themes.
I will say that the world in this book is very dark, so please use caution while reading. And I immediately added, Radiance to my TBR! I never wanted to put this down, I fell so in love with the romance in this book, and this is one of my new favorite fantasy romances of all time. But friends, I was completely enthralled and captivated by this from page one. I knew the author wrote a book that many of my friends love, Radiance, but that’s honestly all I really knew. When Berkley offered me this, I wasn’t sure what to expect. No one knew from whence it originated or why only one woman from every generation in a small village inherited it, but the village elders had kept its secret close and had deceived the Empire for decades.” An ancient magic woven into the flesh and fabric of a single girl child born each generation in Beroe. Goodreads | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble | Book DepositoryĪRC provided by Berkley in exchange for an honest review.
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