Review: The Tethered Mage

The Tethered Mage by Melissa Caruso
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Thank you, Netgalley and publishers, for an advanced e-book copy of this story! All opinions are still my own and are not influenced in any way.

The Tethered Mage by Melissa Caruso is a young adult, fantasy novel about an esteemed heir, Amalia Cornaro, who, by accident, becomes a Falconer. Falconers control Falcons: mages with different and distinct powers, and Amalia ends up with one of the most powerful. With this newfound power, Amalia is thrust into political situations and must stop her country and a neighboring country from going to war.

This book was so amazing, and I really hope you all read it when it comes out. The characters were all so flushed out. You really ended up rooting for the main three. These three characters' personalities worked so well together that it was a pleasure to experience their interactions and feelings.

This book is full of mystery - there seems to be about three mysteries going on at once. Caruso did not fail to surprise me. The different plots were so well entwined, and I'm obsessed. The plot twists were not predictable (at least to me), which makes the whole story even more interesting. Who's behind all this?! Gotta read to find out!

The writing style was beautiful and had me basically watching the whole story play out in my head. It's difficult these days to find a book with such great writing that that happens, but this did not fail to disappoint!

This book is very much politics. I do have trouble sometimes wrapping my head around all the different people and still did so here for a good half of the book. The politics doesn't take away from the action (although it is all intertwined); there are still plenty of action scenes to keep your attention.

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