By Arissa Binte Kamaruzaman (24A01A)
Raffles Reads is a collaboration between Raffles Press and Times Reads which aims to promote a reading culture among Singaporean students.
Rating: 3/ 5 stars
Two pairs of eyes—one blazed in gold, the other sunk in shadow—meet across a battlefield.
Their gazes speak of diametrically opposed magic: Alaric, a prince of the night spars against Talasyn, a lost princess of the light.
Whether they know it or not, they have already hurt each other in many ways. Even before that very moment. Their ancestors’ spilt blood rests on their daggers, thrust towards each other out of vengeance. What are they to each other? Not strangers, but the heirs of rival empires, tethered by the invisible string of fated contempt.
Thea Guanzon’s The Hurricane Wars twists and turns this invisible string until its threads reveal that perhaps, those who are fated to hurt can, unknowingly, be fated to heal each other instead.
This novel embraces all the ingredients of a ravishing enemies-to-lovers tale. (Think: Kylo Ren and Rey from Star Wars, but immersed in the geopolitics of Shadow and Bone). Yet, like a dish made with an ambitious palate of flavours, it often confuses rather than delights the taste buds.
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