Friday, August 4, 2017

Blog Tour + Review + #Giveaway: The Eldritch Heart by Matthew S. Cox @mscox_fiction @XpressoTours



The Eldritch Heart
Matthew S. Cox
Published by: Curiosity Quills Press
Publication date: August 1st 2017
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult

Princess Oona Talomir enjoys the little things that come with her station: a handmaiden, her lavish bedchamber, and scores of fancy dresses―the duty to win a decades’ long war, not so much.

Oh, did I mention assassins?

Seers foretold the conflict would end by her hand. From the moment she drew her first breath, the neighboring kingdom has been trying to kill her so she could not grow powerful enough to destroy them. The king, fearing for his daughter’s life, has kept her confined to the castle grounds for most of her sixteen years. With the tide of war turning against them, the burden of her crown becomes too much to bear, yet one thing lifts her spirits amid the gloom.

Her servant girl, Kitlyn.

Alas, in a kingdom obsessed with the god of purity, she is terrified to confess her forbidden love. When her father makes a demand she cannot abide―marry a prince to forge a military alliance―Oona panics. He is handsome and honorable, but he’s not Kitlyn. Unable to admit why she cannot obey, Oona does the only thing she can think of, and runs away.

Alone and unprepared in the wilderness, she prays the gods will let Kitlyn find her—before the assassins do.



My Review:

In the land of Lucernia lived two little girls, Oona and Kitlyn, one grew up to be a princess and the other a servant girl. The two little girls had been best friends since the age of three. Lucernia has been in war with a neighboring kingdom for many, many years with lots of bloodshed and families losing their loved ones. The seers have foretold that the princess of Lucernia will be the one to end the war.

For as long as she can remember the princess has not been allowed off the grounds of the castle. The neighboring kingdom has been sending in spies and assassins to kill the princess and when one makes it to the princess bedchamber she is very frightened but luckily she is saved by her best friend, the servant girl.  

After being attacked and with not being allowed to do whatever she wants to do (just like any other sixteen year old) the princess decides to leave, to run away. So when the opportunity arises she takes off into the woods hoping that her friend will soon follow. But while she is running away her friend is being arrested for stealing and thrown in the dungeon.

In order to save the two kingdoms and stop the war the princess is required to marry the prince of the neighboring kingdom but that is another reason the princess runs away is because she is in love with someone else and does not wish to marry the prince. The princess is in love with the servant girl. With their love being a forbidden love they are afraid to let anyone know how they feel about each other. The problem would probably no longer be about the fact that one of them is a princess and the other a servant girl.

I really loved reading The Eldritch Heart and watching the love between two people grow and become something so beautiful. Their love not only went for the two of them but spread over a kingdom or two as well. These two girls have more love in their little fingers than most of the adults living in the castle. These two girls wanted to stop all the hurt and loss while some just wanted more power for themselves at the expense of someone else. The princess and the servant girl put their own lives in danger just to protect the other.  
The Eldritch Heart is not the first book I have read by Matthew and hopefully it won’t be the last. Reading The Eldritch Heart is like watching a movie play out in your head. The description of the lands with the trees and the grass and the castle was written in such a way that it was like I was there with them and seeing it all for myself.

The Eldritch Heart is an amazing and wonderful read and I would recommend it to anyone who loves a good fantasy that is filled with lots and lots of magic and mystery and about two beautiful people with great big hearts. 



Author Bio:
Born in a little town known as South Amboy NJ in 1973, Matthew has been creating science fiction and fantasy worlds for most of his reasoning life. Somewhere between fifteen to eighteen of them spent developing the world in which Division Zero, Virtual Immortality, and The Awakened Series take place. He has several other projects in the works as well as a collaborative science fiction endeavor with author Tony Healey.
Hobbies and Interests:

Matthew is an avid gamer, a recovered WoW addict, Gamemaster for two custom systems (Chronicles of Eldrinaath [Fantasy] and Divergent Fates [Sci Fi], and a fan of anime, British humour (<- after="" and="" br="" deliberate="" fiction="" happens="" intellectual="" it.="" life="" nature="" of="" questions="" reality="" science="" that="" the="" what=""> He is also fond of cats.


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1 comments:

Giselle said...

This sounds like a fun and exciting story! Great review, Nancy! :)