#Review: Sunbolt By Intisar Khanani @IntisarKhanani @GHBTours #Giveaway

Title- Sunbolt
Series- The Sunbolt Chronicles # 1
By-Intisar Khanani
Publication Date- June 17, 2013
Published By- Purple Monkey Press
Genre- YA Fantasy

Blurb-

The winding streets and narrow alleys of Karolene hide many secrets, and Hitomi is one of them. Orphaned at a young age, Hitomi has learned to hide her magical aptitude and who her parents really were. Most of all, she must conceal her role in the Shadow League, an underground movement working to undermine the powerful and corrupt Archmage Wilhelm Blackflame.

When the League gets word that Blackflame intends to detain-and execute-a leading political family, Hitomi volunteers to help the family escape. But there are more secrets at play than Hitomi's, and much worse fates than execution. When Hitomi finds herself captured along with her charges, it will take everything she can summon to escape with her life.

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Excerpt-

"Look what's here," the leader says, calling the other soldiers' attention to me. My steps falter as they veer towards me, quickly closing the distance between us. "What do you think she is? A mutt or a half-breed?"

A half-breed they might not bother because those who are half-human and half-something-else often have some strength or ability that could cause more trouble than these men are looking for. Unfortunately for me, the secret I guard is fully human. I glance sideways at the fish seller in the stall beside me, wondering if I can count on her. She is young, no more than a handful of years past my own fifteen, her eyes wide with panic. No help there. I swallow hard, trying to ease the fear thrumming through my veins.

I begin to back away, offering a hesitant smile to the soldiers. A smile? What am I doing? I should run-

But it's already too late. Two of the soldiers have moved ahead of the others, circling past me. I'm surrounded.

"Mutt," says one of the soldiers, taking in my features. I feel myself flush slightly. My parents may have been from different lands, but a good number of islanders have other blood in them, even if it dates back a few generations. How else did the noble women come by their sleek hair? Their problem isn't with my bloodline. It's with the fact that I visibly don't belong, and I'm an easy target.

"Half-breed," two others posit, their boots sounding unnaturally loud in the quiet.

"Definitely a mutt," a soldier behind me says. He's come to a stop a couple paces away, no doubt waiting for his leader to make the first move.

"Well, girl, what are you?" the leader asks.

I refuse to answer in the words they've afforded me. "Human," I say. "Sir."

My Review-

I was given a free copy of the book from the author for my honest opinion.

Hitomi is just a young girl who is trying to make it on her own after she lost her parents. Hitomi is a very strong person with a great big heart who never ever wants to hurt anyone. She will put her own self in danger before putting a stranger much less a friend in jeopardy. Hitomi also has secret that she keeps to herself and only reveals if she or someone she cares about is in extreme danger. Hitomi is a mage and has very powerful magic. Hitomi learned at an early age to keep who her parents were and her gifts a secret from a corrupt Mage Blackflame. Hitomi's parents trained her how to use her magic in the privacy of their home before their deaths.

Hitomi has been hanging out with "The Ghost" the leader of a group called "Shadow League" an underground movement. When The Ghost find out that Blackflame is after a political family and plans on executing them Hitomi volunteers to help get them to safety. But all of their plans are to save the family are sabotaged. Someone on the inside is helping Blackflame be feeding him information on their whereabouts. When Blackflame attacks them and Hitomi is taken hostage by Blackflames men and is locked up in a tower with a breather. A breather is someone who feeds from humans by taking their breath from them. But Hitomi uses that great big ole' heart of hers to talk the breather into helping her escape. She is not sure that she can trust him with her life but she has no other choice in the matter. She has to help him escape so that she can escape as well. Without his help she would not be able to escape. She could use her magic but then she would be too tired to leave or walk out much less fight her way out if it came to that.

Although Hitomi has no love interest and Sunbolt is not that kind of book I did get a hint of a love interest from Hitomi toward a couple of guys in the story. I can't wait for the next book in the series to see if Hitomi will have a boyfriend and will it be the breather or her other friend, Kenta. I would also like to know more about the Ghost as well like who he is and what is his secret? I have a lot of unanswered questions after reading Sunbolt and hope that most of them if not all of them will be answered in the next book. If I dwell on these questions too much I am going to be all antsy before the next book in the series comes out just waiting for the answers. You know you have a great author when you have finished reading a book and have questions that have not been answered. You know that author knows how to keep her readers hanging on and wanting more.

About the Author-

Intisar Khanani grew up a nomad and world traveler. Born in Wisconsin, she has lived in five different states as well as in Jeddah on the coast of the Red Sea. She first remembers seeing snow on a wintry street in Zurich, Switzerland, and vaguely recollects having breakfast with the orangutans at the Singapore Zoo when she was five.

Intisar currently resides in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her husband and two young daughters. Until recently, she wrote grants and developed projects to address community health and infant mortality with the Cincinnati Health Department-which was as close as she could get to saving the world. Now she focuses her time on her two passions: raising her family and writing fantasy.

Intisar's latest projects include a companion trilogy to her debut novel Thorn, featuring a new heroine introduced in her free short story The Bone Knife … and of course, she's hard at work on the remaining installments of The Sunbolt Chronicles.

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