I honestly was not expecting this in the mail this week! I heard about this book by scrolling through the giveaway page on Goodreads. When I checked my Informed Delivery with USPS, I saw I had a media mail package coming that I know I did not order.
Thank you Red Tower Books for sending an arc of Ship Of Spells by H. Leighton Dickson to me!
This book features some pretty interesting tropes:
- Grumpy x Determined: I will always root for a grumpy character because I would be that grumpy character.
- Found Family: I love a good found family in books. Definitely reminds me that the family you're born with is not the only family you can have.
- The Ship Has Opinions: I truly love books where there are objects that are not normally alive and they are sassy. I have my fingers crossed that we have a sassy ship on our hands with this one.
- Mentorship With Bite: I'm truly hoping this is gonna be a mentor relationship book... With it being fantasy I do not have high hopes.
- Enemies-To-Tentative-Trust-To... Oh No: This sounds messy and I'm here for it.
- Out Of Her Element: Aren't we all, girl?
About The Book
Title: Ship Of Spells
Author: H. Leighton Dickson
Pages: 512
Genre: Fantasy, Romantasy, Adult
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A war-scarred mage. A sentient ship. A secret that could drown empires.
When Ensign Bluemage Honor Renn is rescued from the wreckage of her first naval post, she expects death or disgrace. Instead, she wakes aboard the Touchstone, a mythic vessel whispered of in dockside ballads and royal war rooms alike. With a crew of misfits. A mysterious, elven captain. And a mission tied to the Dreadwall, the crumbling barrier that has kept the Overland and Nethersea from open war for a hundred years.
But the tragedy that sank her last ship didn’t just take lives―it left something behind.
Now Renn carries a secret everyone wants. A magik that’s chimeric, arcane...and slowly killing her. But the captain’s mission may be her only chance to survive, even if he still doesn’t trust her.
Caught between privateers, princes, and spies, Renn knows each choice could sink her future―or set the sea on fire.
Ship of Spells is perfect for readers who crave the raw grit of Arya Stark, the world-building of Samantha Shannon, and the slow-burn tension of enemies who should never trust or want each other.
Thank you Red Tower Books!
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