Why I picked itI won a bookstagram giveaway hosted by @saraellawrites back in February, and from that I got the February Owl Crate with the Whimsical Beasts theme! I was SO EXCITED. The theme was perfect for me because it included a couple of Harry Potter merch items (which I love) as well as a short story about tea dragons (how perfect!!) and a BEAUTIFUL custom-covered, sprayed-edges, signed copy of Crown of Feathers. I was so excited to read it, but already had so many books on my TBR that I just added it to the pile. Well, when I was working through the #OWLsReadathon2019, the prompts for Transfiguration were a book with a red cover or sprayed edges. Crown of Feathers (my copy) fit both of those, and I was excited to get started on this new YA Fantasy book! summaryVeronyka and Val are sisters. Both are animages, able to communicate with and control animals, and they both long to be pheonix riders. Before the war years ago, pheonix riders and animages were free to roam the land, but now they're fugitives. Veronyka and Val have a fight and go their separate ways. Veronyka finds that the new secret group of pheonix riders don't accept girls into training, so she disguises herself as Nyk, a stableboy waiting for his chance to be sponsored to train as a pheonix rider what I likedI liked the various characters throughout the book. You can tell right from the beginning that there is an interesting relationship between Val and Nyka. I also love Tristan and the fear that he has to overcome, as well as the pressure that he is under constantly while training. There's a great hate-to-friendship thing that happens between Tristan and Nyk, and watching the characters develop through that is so fun. Seeing in from the outside perspective of one of the soldiers was also a really cool aspect. It gave a whole other spin to the story, and added some interesting plot developments. And wow. The plot twists at the end. I won't say much about them. But I definitely didn't see them coming, and as you know if you read my reviews, there are a good percentage of the books I read that I can find out the ending by halfway through. This was not one of those books. I'm definitely interested in continuing the series what I didn't likeHonestly, most of the way through I was a little worried we'd get an awkward romance thing between Tristan and Nyk like there was between Mulan and Li Shang (you know, when you think of it down the road you start to wonder if Li was questioning his sexuality because by the end he is in love with Mulan, even though she's been posing as a guy the whole time…). That didn't end up being the case. I thought that their relationship developed in an un-awkward way that I appreciated, but it was a real fear in the beginning and middle of the book. I also want to know more about what Val was doing while Veronyka was being a stablehand at the pheonix riders' camp. Toward the end when they cross paths again, you get a little bit of what she was doing, but I'd like to know a little more overall impression 🌟🌟🌟🌟This was a solid book. I enjoyed it, for sure! The plot twist got me, and I'm really happy with how it turned out. Not only that, I'm still waiting for more pheonix rider adventure!!! I can't wait for the next book.
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