And Rachel, grief stricken over her father’s death, needs Logan more than ever. The brutal Commander’s whereabouts are unknown. Left with nothing but fierce belief in her father’s survival, Rachel decides to escape and find him herself.Īs Rachel and Logan battle their way through the Wasteland, stalked by a monster that can’t be killed and an army of assassins out for blood, they discover romance, heartbreak, and a truth that will incite a war decades in the making.īaalboden has been ravaged.
When Rachel’s father fails to return from a courier mission and is declared dead, the city’s brutal Commander assigns Rachel a new Protector: her father’s apprentice, Logan-the boy she declared her love to and who turned her down two years before. While they bend like reeds to the will of their male Protectors, she uses hers for sparring practice. While the other girls in the walled city-state of Baalboden learn to sew and dance, Rachel Adams learns to track and hunt. Redwine is rich postapocalyptic YA fantasy perfect for fans of Graceling and Tamora Pierce. Okay, just had to get that off my chest.ĭefiance by C. Graceling is high fantasy and more political while Defiance is a strange fantastical dystopia that is more dark and twisted, though Graceling is dark in its own way.
I adored Graceling, but cannot say that I adored Defiance. Just a note, Defiance‘s synopsis says that it’s perfect for fans of Graceling by Kristin Cashore. It’s a grim ride but moves fast and has lots of action and emotional streams of consciousness.” If you’re looking for a strong-willed heroine, some destructive dragons, good supporting characters that I wish had appeared more, and a wonderfully strong romantic relationship without any worry of a love triangle, then you might enjoy Defiance, Deception, and Deliverance.
The last paragraph in my review of Book #3, Deliverance, really sums up my thoughts well: “… There are better dystopian series out there, plenty of those also excruciatingly dark but that don’t envelope the whole story in a giant dark storm of gloom and doom. The Defiance trilogy, also known as the Courier’s Daughter series.
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